Serious Does anyone suffer from severe OCD too? How do you cope?

[AlwaysDisappointed]

I don't know what to do anymore but my life is really limited by my OCD

 

[Friday I'm In Love]

i enjoy washing my hands every 5 minutes

 

[nice_try]

What is OCD, how do you suffer from it?
Can't people make proper threads anymore?

 

[turbocuckcel_7000]

foid problems

 

[curryboy420]

I have a little bit of OCD and it doesn't affect me anymore because I have no life so I can do what I want and nobody cares. If I wanna touch my left foot to the same place my right foot touched I can do that. If I wanna clean my hands after touching stuff I can do that.

 

[AlwaysDisappointed]

I have a little bit of OCD and it doesn't affect me anymore because I have no life so I can do what I want and nobody cares. If I wanna touch my left foot to the same place my right foot touched I can do that. If I wanna clean my hands after touching stuff I can do that.

You are lucky then. I check a lot the fridge, water tap, cooker, the door. Check if I hurt people on street by looking back.

 

[curryboy420]

You are lucky then. I check a lot the fridge, water tap, cooker, the door. Check if I hurt people on street by looking back.

That's just called being careful

 

[AlwaysDisappointed]

That's just called being careful

I get extreme intrusive thoughts which cause me great anxiety. I can look at water tap for 30 seconds and still be unsure. Or check my work 7 times and still feel doubt... I cant trust my eyes

 

[curryboy420]

I get extreme intrusive thoughts which cause me great anxiety. I can look at water tap for 30 seconds and still be unsure. Or check my work 7 times and still feel doubt... I cant trust my eyes

Yeah I know how you mean I don't have it that bad but it used to be worse when I was small. Now I don't care if I have a few little weird tics because I waste all my 24 hours anyway

 

[AlwaysDisappointed]

Yeah I know how you mean I don't have it that bad but it used to be worse when I was small. Now I don't care if I have a few little weird tics because I waste all my 24 hours anyway

I wish I had a few little tics, but at me it is severe. And meds dont work.

 

[ItsovERfucks]

I don't know if I have that.

 

[subhuman]

Yep I've had it for 10 years now. I had it under control for a while but it's getting out of control again which is brutal. Basically you can get over it by just not doing the compulsions. Unfortunately I don't have the courage to keep fighting it though. There's also usually some underlying psychological reason why you feel the need to do these things that you want to find out through careful introspection.