what do you know about obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?

hahahahaha, i was gonna bump this thread!

:-)

Generally better than last week anyway.

a little worse for me for a lot of reasons but one of the big ones is needing to close this tab.

yo, i just wanna pop in here and say actually paying (even if out of pocket) to see someone who can prescribe drugs for this is one of the smartest and best things you can do with your life

yyyyyyyyeah i hear you but

i dunno maybe it's worth thinking about

i just made an appt with my doctor for tmw

i'm going to keep making more frequent appts with him he keeps up with all the medicine

Been wondering a lot about how many things in my life are OCD and what the first thing was, sometimes it's so subtle you don't notice a disorder. I think it only became a major problem in my 20s but I can see minor phases of it possibly stretching back to early childhood.

i remember exactly the day when mine started. like the moment. the girl, the conversation, the cafeteria.

i just met with my psychiatrist and he said it's not a bad idea for me to try some medication again. it's not specific to OCD but since my "symptoms" are mixed i'm giving it a shot. i tried it before but not under the right circumstances!

mmmmmaybe

it's been years since i've tried something - i get the major hesitation

Doing much much much better than the hole I was in when I last posted here. Still need to fix my reading OCD problem though.

I was talking with a bunch of OCD people recently and they pointed out how the trend of youngsters in fan communities and social media being extremely puritanical often seems a lot to do with OCD. The idea had crossed my mind, but discussing this and thinking about the paranoid dogmatic behavior, it makes a lot of sense. Really scary and sad that they're hanging out together and freaking each other out like this.

https://amp.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article269080207.html

Kentucky mayor opens up about having OCD and urges people to stop making it a punchline.