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Could Anyone Tell Me If My Symptoms Are OCD?

Postby darkdaisy » Tue May 09, 2017 11:43 pm

I don't know much about OCD, but I do have Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) which is similar to OCD apparently. And with the mental health issues I have, I inevitably suffer with awful anxiety and depression also. But I was curious to find out if these symptoms of mine, might be OCD? I get bad intrusive thoughts... of mostly two kinds, one being unwanted intrusive sexual thoughts whenever someone physically touches me which causes me to recoil in disgust and avoid physical contact with people (most of the time) and I often feel very distressed and disgusted by these unwanted thoughts. The second kind of intrusive thoughts are very scary and horrific... and they tend to be of demons/dead people. For one example; when I am brushing my teeth at night, I can get frozen stiff by the visualisation of a dead woman standing behind me... or other thoughts about demons/dead people near me, or wanting to hurt me. I try to fight it off as just my imagination, but it inevitably leads to me feeling very spooked by them. I do also have a strong irritablity by fingerprints, crumbs and clutter around my environment.. And because I live with my parents, I do most of the house work but it gets out of my control to maintain the avoidance of these things, so I often get very distressed and cannot leave my room, to avoid looking at these flaws in the environment. When I was a kid, I think I had some kind of mild OCD symptoms, like I remember I used to get thoughts like "If you don't turn off that light switch in under 10 seconds, your Mother will die tonight." And I also as a child, used to have a fear that by making physical contact with other people, they would know what I was thinking... I don't have those types of symptoms anymore. But its just interesting looking back to realise I had a strange mind even back then... Anyway, Thankyou for responses :)
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Re: Could Anyone Tell Me If My Symptoms Are OCD?

Postby Otter » Sat May 13, 2017 2:40 am

Naturally, there are some OCD-like things in your post, like intrusive thoughts and compulsions as a child, but that doesn't mean you have OCD. Intrusive thoughts occur manny different mental health issues and compulsions in a child are not unusual.
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