OCD: It's Like a Bully in Your Brain

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[tobyfep]

i hate how other people dont get how difficult it is. they think its just washing your hands and wanting to be clean, and one of my friends said to me i was lucky i have it because it makes me think more! i want to stop thinking!

[brentglittle]

No, this is not the way it functions. No matter how often you tell the bully no, the bully comes back every time as strong as it was before as if it was the first time. Someone who has never had OCD can not understand the way it functions. It is unique to the OCD person. And there are no categories to compare it to outside of the OCD life.

[gemstar102]

Does anyone else have the type of OCD where you keep repeating the same words or sentences in your head? I feel like i'm the only one

[andromache007]

I've had OCD eversince I was eight but I was diagnosed with it when I was fifteen. For those six years when I hadn't known that what I had was a disorder, I had thought that I'm evil because I could not explain why certain thoughts connected with violence appeared in my head and would not go no matter how hard I've tried to push them away. Having OCD is by no means funny and it's not just freaking out about having your hands clean (although I used to scrub mine till they were bleeding).

[combatantlife]

ive had ocd before. i always wanted to clean certain parts o f my body so far as to use haevy duty detergents. im also addicted to really making sure certain appliances were deactivated enough that eventually they were broken. i never knew what ocd was until recently. just any other bully, we have to constantly stand up to it and keep building confidence to thwart it by not doing the rituals everyday.

[Writeitdownandsing]

I have ocd. It first started to show about 3 years ago when I was 9. It was so hard to deal with. You just can't explain the pain that happens.

[imatestguy]

if OCD was a person, i would slam its face in the pavement then keep it tied up in my closet. and every day i wake up, i would punch it in the face for good luck.

[Karotsy]

I remember having my first symptoms when I was about 9 or 10 but I could not figure out how to explain this to anyone especially my parents. It was very exhausting more back then because I did not know that I had this. I thought I was going crazy.

[scienceassassin123]

It's different. A bully doesn't follow you home to your bed and can't always be present.

[lawrence096]

@brentglittle i think he's talking about ignoring the OCD rather than telling it no, if you tell it no you acknowledge its presence making it stronger, its like when someone asks for your lunch money if you dont even acknowledege they are there they be annoyed at first and maybe hit you, but if you dont react after a while the bully feels no satisfaction of punching a wall so to speak.

[Abercrombieand1Bitch]

OCD is... it's pretty much the reason I hate my life...

[Abercrombieand1Bitch]

OCD is... it's pretty much the reason I hate my life...