I Have Ocd Stories of Experiences

In my room everything has to be perfect and not out of place. when I leave for a trip I know where every single thing was when I left and if I notice one thing out of place I know my sister was in my room no matter how careful she was...

well at first my OCD was mainly orgaizational and lines, but recently due a gross experience that I may share later. The experience has made me do every thing to avoid germs I type, read and do my school work with gloves. When I dont...

Here's just a list of the things my OCD makes me do. A few of them, I guess, are just things I find strange that I wanted to share.
1. My dad has recently developed this hobby of collecting Persian rugs. I try to either step on all of...

I hate it when people at school are like “Oh my gosh I'm soooooo OCD!" or say “ OCD moment!" because they don't truly understand what they are taking about. Out of all the purple I've met, I've met one other person who truly has...

Today in class, some random kid came up to me and said “I know your secret." At first, I was confused, but then I realized what he was talking about. I really didn't care, and that's what I told him, but then he got ideas. First he...

OCD - hmmmm... just thought that was me - makes me quirky and sassy, right?
Since being diagnosed (officially) at age 35 with OCD, I realize that OCD tendencies were are part of my life since I was a wee child. Again, who doesn't do...

I have always been a bot of an organizational person and it drives me crazy to go inside someone elses house and it's a mess. I just want to clean it and organize it. I also have to clean my house in a certain order and if any of those...

Hello there!

I'm 14 and I've been diagnosed with OCD about a month ago which really annoyed me because I've been aware of it for a year but my parents just thought that it was only a part of a phase with teenager problems, hormones and...

I got diagnosed with depression and OCD when I was about 16. My family thought I was a bit mental, or fussy. But when I look back, I realise the signs were always there.
As a small child, I would sometimes get sweets. If the sweets were...

My room, my car, my thoughts, my schedule...all need to be organized and kept up. I keep track of everything from my gas mileage in my car to the list of SpongeBob episodes I like and don't like. I like keeping a schedule for the most...

I'm a 17 year old girl in high school. I can't hide my tendencies. So at school, like anywhere else, they happen. It's not easy being different. It's not easy always having to answer questions concerning my strange actions- nit easy...

Hi all,

Please can anyone offer up any advice from my earlier post. Does it sound insane and how can I try to stop

Please help

Thanks

Hi all,

Im 30 years old and have suffered with various types of OCD since I was a young boy. I repeatedly washed counted things so that my family wouldn't die, made sure house was locked, touched things10 times, phones parents from...

I never knew what OCD is, I did it but I never noticed my behavior. When I was 15, my therapist told me that I have OCD because I couldn't stop washing my hands, but I still didn't really know what OCD is. Now, a friend asked me if I...

This will be just a bit of "these things" that have to be done in a certain way...

Everything has it's place, and everything must be in it's place....I can come into a room and literally in one second tell you if something is out of...

I was destined to have OCD. My mother is diagnosed with OCD and my father is just super anal - i'm sure he has undiagnosed ocd. I have a lot of different OCDisms.

1) counting ... i often count things...anything really...sometimes i...

Perfect.

Everything has to be perfect.
When I wake up
in the morning,
I spend nearly 2 hours
making sure my hair looks alright.
I have to have
everything perfectly organized,
everything needs to look
exactly the way it always...

A lot of things have an opposite, this makes them either odd or even, here are a few things I consider odd or even.ODD       EVEN
left          right
thin         thick
lite        heavy
salt         pepper
white...

I coolect books and search for hours on amazon to select the perfect one..I have managed to not buy a book for seven days so far..but only coz I have promised myself one on payday..its helping my dwindling bank balance but its no cure...

ATTENTION: .... you! Yes you :)
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