Is this OCD?

For awhile, I have known that I have some problems. These problems are keeping me from doing as well as I could do in almost every area in life. I see how some of my problems are similar to the symptoms of OCD. Here are some problems I have:

1.) I have troubles with counting and with processing information correctly. Sometimes I don't trust my answers to the the most simple of questions. Like one time I flipped to a basketball game on TV and checked to see who was winning. A question I asked myself was "Am I really sure that this is the winning team?" I do this with counting a lot too, like I'll ask myself "How do I really know that's seven objects" after I count objects in a room. These questions really scare me and cause me to ask if something is wrong with me.

2.) I easily get paranoid about things. I often have to check the backseat of my car more than once when I am driving at night to make sure no one is in the backseat. I also have a long history of being afraid at night, like I'll easily lock the door to my bedroom even if I know the front door and windows are all locked.

3.) I'm saving the most frightening problem for last. I have freaky sexual impulses. Like even when I'm in a normal conversation with someone, I'll start having sexual feelings or urges. These are so scary and I cannot control them. I also constantly stare at people's chests, and this obviously makes them uncomfortable and even threatened. Most of the time, I don't want to have these sexual impulses, but sometimes they give me pleasure. A lot of times when I begin staring at someone or having these impulses, I try to stop myself and become frozen and unable to act.


I have a question if this really is OCD. I read somewhere recently that individuals with OCD don't get pleasure from their obsessions, but I find myself often feeling pleasure from staring at other people or even having sexual thoughts, but I really feel like I am a prisoner to this and would be a thousand times happier if I didn't have this problem in my life. I have been questioning if this could be some type of paraphilla, but many types of paraphilla do not fit the problems I have.

Thank you for your help!

Does anyone have anything to say about this? I appreciate all replies!

Hey, I'm not sure, what to tell you, but it seems like maybe you're just being paranoid. I'm pretty sure paranoia is something totally different than OCD. You could also be just doubting yourself.

Do you do these things obsessively? Like, when you check the back seat of the car, do check it again afterwards repeatedly, even though you know there is no one there? When you count do you recount over and over again? Do you feel uncomfortable, or uneasy if you don't do these things.

Lots of people have doubt about things, or get scared at night, it's when you constantly obsess about these things that you know you have a problem.

Hey,


I don't think a psychiatrist would diagnose you as having OCD going by what you describe. However. there certainly is something 'odd' about your actions. So many people do these things though. With regard to the recounting of numbers and the rechecking of things I think that it might be stemming from low self-esteem. Am I way off the mark with that?


For the other issue (Looking at females' breasts) you must stop doing this. If you feel the urge to do it next time, remember to look somewhere else (For example, behind the person you are talking to).