News of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Forum

So, for roughly three days now, I've been unable to stop thinking about my fears, and have been having tons of intrusive thoughts. It feels so real... I'm worried, you guys... I don't know what to do.

Here are some helpful posts i made!

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Just some background - I am an 18-year old white male, freshman in college. I've had obsessions about racism and the idea that I could be racist in the past, which I mostly dealt with using CBT and an improved understanding of racism (everyone is racist because everyone has implicit bias, accept that you have bias and try not to act on it, treat your biased thoughts the same as you would intrusive thoughts).

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I get tense when I leave my paper cup of whatever alone at work and walk away. It's usually filled with tap water because of this. I walk away from it, and come back and think, "someone may have drank from this! They could have oral herpes!" and then I throw it away and get another, and it's always one towards the middle of the stack, neither at the top of at the bottom, but ...

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Let me start by prefacing that this is my first post. 20 male I'm not sure if this is the right place to post. Sorry if it isn't

I'm currently in distress right now. I've got nowhere to be heard except for these kinds of forums. Throughout these months I've been dealing with what I suspect is POCD, or pedophile obsessed ocd as it's not formally diagnosed. As a result, I started medication and ...

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At first, sorry for my English, it’s not my native language.
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Now i feel that i ...

Hey, my name is Sandy.

I sometimes worry my OCD isn't... "conventional" enough. If that's a good way to put it. I often think about how easier it would be if I had OCD about things like contamination or perfectionism, things that easily fit into the stereotype, where people who aren't OCD, would sort of understand from an outside perspective. But I have OCD about unconventional things. Like religious guilt, (which I'm aware is more ...