Do any of you have obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Question

Please answer these questions.
1. What are the symptoms which made you recognize that you have OCD?
2. How did you handle these symptoms?
3. Are you undergoing certain treatments?
4. What are the good and bad effects that you are experiencing?

I need it for our research paper and if you can put your name and country after answering these questions then it's a plus point for me but if you don't want it's alright...thanks

Answer 1

you focus all the time on one single thing, if you are like that , then yes you do have that.

Answer 2

I know a neighbor who is excessive compulsive going without treatment because she thinks she is normal and won't listen to her mental health counselors she is very insistent about anything for herself and disregards other people"s private spaces she constantly is in scrapes with the law and has been arrested for fighting in public she is on social security and claims she is broke the day after payday she makes stupid financial decisions and has no common sense either I have tried numerous ways to tell her to mind her own business but she has physically threatened me many times and is persistent in ringing my door bell all times of the day and many times a day she has it in her head that she should live with me so I could take care of her and pay her bills too she claims that she is a lesbian and i should be one too she is just a bully and I am afraid that I will have to get a protection order to keep her away

Answer 3

1. Ordering. Constant bad fears when doing most actions. (brushing teeth, showers, etc...)
2. Ignored them. I thought these symptoms were normal.
3. I am in cognitive behavioral therapy
4. My depression is almost gone, but my OCD is still here!

name: Gwen
USA

Answer 4

I don,t have OCD, however 2 of my children do have a mild form of it, and several relatives had very serious forms of it.
I work with people with many forms of mental illnesses, and run a psychosocial rehabilition/ recovery group for same.
I have 5 people in the group with OCD, and 2 have schizophrenia with it.
The symptoms are usually things like having to double check, then triple check things like taps turned off properly, have you turned stove off, have you locked the door etc.
This can become much much worse, and quite often you don,t recognise its happening, till maybe you are late for work because you took 2 hrs to check the taps, and then the locks etc, and other things like skin so rubbed and sore, almost bleeding because you have turned taps so tight,too often, or had the keys in and out of doors till fingers are sore, or washed hands, scrubbed them so many times to be sure they are clean etc. some peopl brush their hair so much they actually brush it till its coming out.
OCD is treatable, and CBT= cognitive behavioural therapy is the most popular.
There are many OCD support groups out there, and they are just wonderful.
Sometimes the OCD becomes paranoia, so it is important to get help ASAP, so to learn the coping skills and strategies to help preventing this from becoming a major concern.
If it turns to paranoia, life can become much less tolerable, because you start to think , imagine things, feel things , like you are being watched, followed, etc, that everyone is out to get you, that everyone is talking about you.
Some think people are staring, so then, hygeine becomes a constant series of grooming etc.
People become overly aware of numbers, names etc, like street numbers, names, car number plates etc, and the whole thing escalates.
Some people won,t allow others prepare a meal, or they won't eat out incase they are being poisoned etc.Or they will get germs.
Its a rotten thing to have, but its is very much treatable.
I am Sandy, from Hervey Bay, Queensland Australia.
I have hotmail and yahoo email addresses.
I am willing to keep in touch anytime.
I am a mental health advisor to mental health and community services etc.
I sit on many committees and panels and am a mental health advocate.
I assist in the running of a group called GEMS ( Group for Emotional & Mental Support) and many other programs , educating community, etc on the Fraser Coast. Australia.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I wash my hands/use hand sanitizer all day long. At home my desk has to be organized and the closet door has to be closed all the way for me to go to sleep.

Answer 7

1. I obsessed over....things like...everything...I always had to check every single corner for spiders before i got comfortable...constantly washing my hands +more(there's a long list)
2. I dunno when i realized i couldn't stop myself I thought...hmmm....there's something wrong
3. nope
4. it's annoying...stressful

I actually video taped myself...and I look really weird doing things...like looking up constantly...or...looking around and there's something on the wall i didn't see properly...and I'd wip my head back and I'd make note of every little bit of it

Khadija, Canada