I was obsessing over numbers- I wouldn’t rest until I found a combination that equaled 11 because 1-1=0 but 2-2 wasn’t okay etc it had to be 11. I couldn’t look at clocks without doing the math, license plates made it impossible to sit in a car because every letter correlated with a number 1-26. It made me incredible at math but I would have panic attacks if I couldn’t make the numbers work

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it wasn’t even on my radar i went to get tested for adhd because i couldn’t focus and i got surprise ocd and anxiety diagnoses instead

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I actually never even considered I had OCD until my psychiatrist told me she suspected it(and she was right). I still had the stereotypical ideas of what OCD was in my head.

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Intense intrusive thoughts of people dying in extreme ways

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I had washed my hands to the point of having a two inch long area have severe rug burn. My therapist referred to my behavior as compulsive which was the first time he did that. I asked what the difference was between what I had and something diagnosable. He said “a diagnosis”

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I was obsessing over a friend severely (ROCD) and it was so bad that I was very depressed whenever I wasn’t actively talking to them. I was planning my whole days around talking to them, to the point in which I stopped doing the things I enjoyed. My therapist brought up OCD, and then I went to my psychiatrist to get diagnosed. There’s a lot more to what I experienced, but I was diagnosed on the spot

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i couldnt drink from or use cups because i was convinced that some were laced with poison, and if i drank from the ‘non poisoned’ ones then someone else would drink the ‘poisoned’ ones and die and it would be my fault. also could only eat in multiples of four otherwise i would probably get sick, which would be bad because it would take away attention from my chronically ill brother who did genuinely need it more than i did

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I would stay up all night stuck in loops

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