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Between March and September of this year was probably the lowest I've been in my life. My girlfriend broke up with me, my friends abandoned me, I was turned down by my first choice of colleges, I was rejected for countless school loans, and I was completely alone at my new school. Needless to...

So the other week, I was feeling pretty down. In short, it was just a bad week. Then, on the 9th, this girl started talking with me and my two friends in our school's dining hall. Afterward, she texted me that I was adorable, cute, all that stuff. We talked online, then hung out last Thursday...

I'm curious. I'm sure in the past (before you knew you had OCD) you suspected that something was wrong. My question is just the title of the thread: How did finding out you have OCD change your anxieties (if at all)? For me, it was like the puppet seeing the strings. I was completely terrified...

Checking and repeating, checking and repeating, pacing and rehearsing conversations in my head, checking and repeating. Yeah, the last few days have been pretty much that. On the outside, I just look like a quiet guy. I try to make eye contact, be polite, smile, all that stuff. But lately it's...

I'm currently in a performance enhancement psychology class at college and we've been discussing goals and the importance of writing them down. So I'm curious, what are your goals? (Short-term and long-term) Here's mine: - Get at least a 3.5 GPA in school - Get involved in clubs and try to...

So I'm moving to college tomorrow. That means living with people I have never met, having to re-arrange objects in my new room, adapting to a new schedule (18 credits! yikes!), and being away from what is familiar and comfortable. My anxiety has been pretty bad this week, but I don't know if...

So after some long thought last night, I've realized that if trust isn't the direct cause of my OCD, it's definitely a trigger now. With a few exceptions, basically everyone close to me has betrayed my trust by lying to me, breaking promises, or being unreliable. A few weeks ago I thought I was...

Last night was a bad night. Scratch that, the last few months have been bad. You name something good that was supposed to happen and something bad happened instead. There's far too many to list, but here are the ones giving me grief at the moment: - My girlfriend suggested that we "take a...

So a strange thought entered my head as I was trying to fall asleep last night. I was tired, so it was weird. Bear with me. Okay, so I'm in an elevator and I press the button to make it go up. It won't go. I'm not asleep, so it's not a dream. It's just a thought and I know it's just a thought...

So apart from all us fine folks here on the interweb superhighway, who do you talk to (if anyone) when you go through your symptoms/just about OCD in general? Significant other? A friend? Family member? A diary? Total strangers on the street? Part two: Do they help you? If so, how? If not, why not?

The average person takes somewhere on the order of 15 minutes. I cannot remember the last time it took less than 40 minutes to fall asleep once I got into bed. If I do actually fall asleep "quickly", I'm a very light sleeper so I usually wake up at least once during the night, so then it's...

So I told one of my friends that I have OCD a few months ago. He responded with skepticism (which I'm okay with) before he eventually believed me when I started telling him how bad my obsessions and anxiety can get. I've known him for over 8 years and the rest of my friends right now for at...

I have a rather proud moment to share. The other night, one of my cats was asleep on my bed when the smaller cat came in and bopped the bigger one on the head while he was asleep. They started to fight and the bigger one was yelling and growling (something he never, ever does). They both ran...

So I'm curious, what is the usual length of the intrusive thoughts you get? Mine are usually just for a moment, like briefly telling myself "jerk the wheel, drive the car off the road!" Is the norm just brief moments like that or do you have them for extended periods of time?

So something interesting happened over the Easter weekend. At my grandparent's house, with many cousins and aunts and uncles, the topic of counting was touched on. A few of them (my grandmother, a cousin, and an aunt) all talked about feeling the need to count things or the need to eat or...

So here's one that just came to my attention last night, being extraordinarily quiet around my house. Most of the time at least two people are asleep when I'm up and around, but it drives me nuts anytime if someone slams a door, makes the floor squeak, or talks really loud in the house, anything...

So I'm curious, how did you tell people you have OCD (if you told anyone)? For the two people I've told so far, I just kind of blurted it out. Needless to say, they seemed weirded out and we haven't really discussed it since. It's driving me crazy and I really want to tell my friends why I am...

So I've kind of heard of this one before, but I wanted to see if it's common. A few weeks ago, I was watching a DVD in my room. A few minutes in, I started thinking about how many movies I had and in what decade they were made. A few minutes after that, I had torn up my DVD shelves and was...

So we know that compulsions feel irrational, but does anyone else have minor ones that they just sort of chuckle about? For me, it's the ones involving eating. If I eat M&M's or something similar, I have to dump them all out on a horizontal surface, separate them by color, then eat them one...