My sons,13,started washing hands for hours,diognosed Ocd,now 30,harm,bite,drive away parents,live on mother's pension,no solution so far.

I’m not sure if I have OCD or not every time I realize something or say something I didn’t mean in my head I will repeatedly say words until I feel like I know I was wrong and if I don’t, I feel very uncomfortable and I can’t focus nor listen to anything going on around me until I say those words Also I feel the need to keep repeatedly check on things multiple times like if I closed off all the tabs in my phone or turned off the light etc

This video brings me tears. Thank you for this, and honestly I think I use this video as a compulsion (checking) to answer that damn question, is this OCD? I’m dealing with moral scrupulosity and real event and even existential (managing that theme). And my life now totally revolves around this past event. Constantly in my head. The nuances of the event and what it says about who I am. And it’s incredibly distressing but here’s where I think I’m bogged down, in addition to the anxiety. I feel as though proclaiming and self diagnosing (something I’m somewhat against) I have OCD, is a “cop out” in a sense. Like I did this really shitty thing and I’m over here proclaiming I have OCD. I SHOULD BE SUFFERING, because you did that shitty thing… not spending time in the mental health community. And then to relieve myself of the anxiety I’m in daily I remember and hear that people who have OCD are generally kind people… I’ve no clue. It’s tough. What do you think? That OCD targets people’s values which is why it’s so distressing. I love this video. Thank you.

Me realizing I actually have OCD and thinking of how I am gonna tell my mom 😳

i’m not sure if i have OCD or what i do is normal because i’ll do something and then i’ll just feel this urge to keep doing it until i feel like i can finally stop or sometimes i’ll try to fight the urges and force myself to stop but i won’t stop thinking about it for hours or longer, also sometimes if i’m going to walk past something i have to make sure i take the exact same route i took the first time or sometimes if i see someone walk around something i have to imagine them going back the way they came (for example i see my teacher get up from her desk on one side and sit down at her desk from the other i have to imagine her getting up walking back around and stirring down from the side she got up from) i’ve been concerned that i might have OCD for a couple of years now but i really don’t want to say that i might have OCD so i don’t invalidate anyone

Hey! I’m a little late to this video but I really think I have ocd and I’ve done a lot of research to see if I might. For some reason this year all of these thoughts and the things I tell myself I have to do got a lot worse and then it started to cross my mind that I might have ocd. Some things that I tell myself to do are I have a routine where I have to check around my room multiple times before I go to bed or else something bad will happen, wash my hands so much to the point where they are bleeding, check my door before leaving the house, check rooms I leave multiple times, tap things randomly, turn lights on and off, and some other things that randomly come up but I don’t do often. Also I am normally late because of all these things. I talked to my dad the other day to see if I could get a diagnosis and he said he doesn’t think I have it because I’m not organized and getting a diagnosis wouldn’t change anything. Idk if he might be right or not but I genuinely just want to know and I might not but I feel like knowing would just kinda fill this question I have. Idk what this comment actually changes but do you think I should bring it up again or just let it be??

im not sure if i have ocd because the things i tell myself to do are very small and not rituals, but more like annoying thoughts and if i dont do them i go crazy and start to panic. i know this is weird but i have to make perfect squares with my fingers 5 times, or until it feels right, or when i play a game i have a ritual to do before i can get a prize.if i have nail polish on, sometimes i tell my self that i have to pick all of it off and if i leave one speck i cant focus. if i am in a waiting room i tell myself that i have to read everything that you could read in that room before a certain time, and while im reading it my head, if i mess up i have to restart.i don’t remember most of the small things i do since i dont have to do them every day, and they are random, but if i cant do them it bothers me a lot and stresses me out. im not sure if what i have is ocd but i just want to make sure

Yes I have all of these OCD symptoms but my counselor said I just have severe anxiety I'm doubting that and now I'm obsessing over this now and I'm worried I know this can't just be anxiety but more

I'm quite late to this, but I think I might have OCD, but I don't want to invalidate anyone who does have it, and maybe it's something else, but, if I'm like, walking, I have to make sure I step equally, like, I need to step equally, like not step on the cracks and step the same amount on each block, or, if i do step on the cracks, make sure I step with the same amount of cracks with each foot. Or, if I brush the wall with my left hand, I need to do it with my right hand.

Is it ocd if you repeat the same thing in your head? I dont do any reactions like you said, i dont wash my hands a lot, i also dknt have symmetry ocd but is that OCD?

I really am stuck I have thought I’ve had ocd for like a year now and I have asked my parents and they say no but it has gotten worse for me, I don’t get thoughts about things very often but I do so many things that just I can’t help, like it would take so long but say I’m washing my hands I always see very small little specs of stuff in the sink and try to wash it down but sometimes it won’t go with the water, so I use my hands which then makes me wash my hands again, sometimes I wash them multiple times uncontrollably, but’s that’s just a small thing I do. I thought my things might of been some perfectionist stuff but I don’t even get annoyed when my room is messy so idk, another thing is every time I’m turning off a light I switch it 3 times with the last one having my finger completely cover the switch and I once again can’t help it, also when I turn off the microwave I click the stop/cancel button 10 times idk why. But I have no one to ask because no one understands and there’s so much more I keep doing that I can’t control like a ritual I should say before I go to bed, and I’ve never gone to sleep without doing it please help Also I will get thoughts like oh if I don’t do this something bad will happen and it really pisses me off as it started when I moved into this house which was like maybe 2 years ago and only gotten worse, but in the holidays I started to loosen up certain stuff saying to myself like tomorrow isn’t school so I wouldn’t have any bad luck or soemthjng

Do I have OCD if it makes me so mad that something is in desorder and I need to put it back in place to feel better and I start having panick attacks?

Could you ask your doctor if you have OCD?