Brick Spice

2h

ya shouldnt be ranking mental disorders. everyones struggle is valid

but also it wouldnt even make top 20

Brick Spice

2h

ya shouldnt be ranking mental disorders. everyones struggle is valid

but also it wouldnt even make top 20

turntout

2h

if you exclude like dementia stuff, it def cracks top 5.
it is truly the worst.

if you let it fester you would be bed ridden pissing in bottles unable to go leave your room

Brick Spice

2h

nah dude the dsm go deep brah

ocd jits usually aren't a threat to society

turntout

2h

thats true i guess.

they think they are though lol

Brick Spice

2h

u be ur own biggest opp

Orangutan

2h

OCD gotta be like top 5 worst mental disorders

I thought I was just a freak so I never told my parents or anything

Just thugged it out til I found out what OCD actually was in like 10th grade

Brick Spice

2h

nah dude the dsm go deep brah

ocd jits usually aren't a threat to society

Stankie

2h

What is your tics or symptoms or whatever? If you don’t mind discussing it

I sometimes think I have a very mild form of it, I’m overly focused on hygiene/keeping s*** clean. Although it just forces me to be tidy so I don’t really mind

turntout

1h

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mine i dont have any clean stuff. lots of hand washing

but its mostly intrusive thoughts. many of which I dont wanna put out there or talk about. but some of the more insane ones that have since subsided, are like I had intrusive thoughts could be a cannibal. or if i dont do this thing because a clock shows a certain number, bad things will happen to me. just actually insane stuff.

at its peak i would spend at least like 4-6 hours a day preoccupied with it, or doing something like hand washing or avoiding touching a bunch of stuff. but nowadays its like 2 hours maybe and it mostly only flares up when im stressed

its crazy and very stressful, especially when youre younger and you dont know whats happening to you

the like keeping things clean ocd is just one type and relatively uncommon

frenchpress

1h

He’s just doing the YUMMY method

Stankie

2h

What is your tics or symptoms or whatever? If you don’t mind discussing it

I sometimes think I have a very mild form of it, I’m overly focused on hygiene/keeping s*** clean. Although it just forces me to be tidy so I don’t really mind

Orangutan

1h

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It's gotten like 90% better, but when I was younger, I had big contamination OCD in a few different forms. Pretty much anything in my room was considered "dirty" and anything that touched anything in there was "contaminated". I tried my damndest to keep everyone out of my room, but if someone did go in there, or god forbid touched something in there, I'd have a total breakdown. The worst part was I logically knew it made no sense, and there was nothing actually dirty about my room. But yeah everyday before school I'd deadass shower for like an hour scrubbing every inch of my body so I wouldn't bring the "contamination" to school. Literally washed my mouth out with soap every day until I gagged just in case "it" got in my mouth.

On the internal side of things, I was terrified of losing my salvation, so I avoided the number 6 like the plague, and constantly traced the number 777 onto my body throughout the day. On top of that, I felt like I had to pray for forgiveness after any intrusive thought, which if you know anything about OCD, trying to avoid intrusive thoughts just strengthens them, so I'd end up silently praying hundreds of times a day if not more. That's the one that still remains in some form to this day. I'm not even religious, it's legit just muscle memory because I did it for so many years of my childhood.

I also had a sort of "mental" contamination thing. For example, if I was listening to a song and a particularly bad intrusive thought popped into my head, the song would become permanently linked to that thought, completely ruining the song for me.

All of that being said, there's tons of different ways OCD can manifest. Just do some research and see if any of the symptoms resonate.

turntout

1h

BRUH we have so many of the same symptoms that is kinda cool

both have contamination and number stuff. I for me it’s looking for the numbers 7 or 9 everywhere.

wild how brains are. like our wires are crossed in the same strange way, its so consistent. weird

turntout

1h

mine i dont have any clean stuff. lots of hand washing

but its mostly intrusive thoughts. many of which I dont wanna put out there or talk about. but some of the more insane ones that have since subsided, are like I had intrusive thoughts could be a cannibal. or if i dont do this thing because a clock shows a certain number, bad things will happen to me. just actually insane stuff.

at its peak i would spend at least like 4-6 hours a day preoccupied with it, or doing something like hand washing or avoiding touching a bunch of stuff. but nowadays its like 2 hours maybe and it mostly only flares up when im stressed

its crazy and very stressful, especially when youre younger and you dont know whats happening to you

the like keeping things clean ocd is just one type and relatively uncommon

Orangutan

1h

it's so crazy how such seemingly random things end up being fairly common manifestations of a particular disorder

Orangutan

1h

It's gotten like 90% better, but when I was younger, I had big contamination OCD in a few different forms. Pretty much anything in my room was considered "dirty" and anything that touched anything in there was "contaminated". I tried my damndest to keep everyone out of my room, but if someone did go in there, or god forbid touched something in there, I'd have a total breakdown. The worst part was I logically knew it made no sense, and there was nothing actually dirty about my room. But yeah everyday before school I'd deadass shower for like an hour scrubbing every inch of my body so I wouldn't bring the "contamination" to school. Literally washed my mouth out with soap every day until I gagged just in case "it" got in my mouth.

On the internal side of things, I was terrified of losing my salvation, so I avoided the number 6 like the plague, and constantly traced the number 777 onto my body throughout the day. On top of that, I felt like I had to pray for forgiveness after any intrusive thought, which if you know anything about OCD, trying to avoid intrusive thoughts just strengthens them, so I'd end up silently praying hundreds of times a day if not more. That's the one that still remains in some form to this day. I'm not even religious, it's legit just muscle memory because I did it for so many years of my childhood.

I also had a sort of "mental" contamination thing. For example, if I was listening to a song and a particularly bad intrusive thought popped into my head, the song would become permanently linked to that thought, completely ruining the song for me.

All of that being said, there's tons of different ways OCD can manifest. Just do some research and see if any of the symptoms resonate.

turntout

1h

yeah 100%

it really drives home it IS a disorder though, which sometimes u doubt and think like maybe im crazy this is idk real.

but then when you see people have the same symptoms its like oooh ok, this is a real disorder lol i am normal on the inside

Stankie

1h

Damn bro this sounds like hell. I’m sorry you have to go through this

Orangutan

1h

Living like that before you know what it is is the craziest s***

Feels like you have this second "job" you have to manage 24/7 that no one can know about