Hi
Thought of making a proper introduction since I've started writing here today.
I'm 36, have had OCD since childhood andmild bipolar disease was diagnosed 2,5 years ago. Haven't been able to work after that.
I've had lots of problems with my parents and my childhood was not a happy one. I've divorced once and have been in a realtionship for over 4 years.
As I have suffered OCD for over 25 years, I'm a veteran as an OCD-sufferer. First it was compulsions and then when I was probably about 12 obsessive thought apeared. At first it wasn't such a big problem, but gradually became worse. I managed school and university and even worked for 9 years until about 2,5 years, when I was hospitalized for a short while.
When I was about 20 one doctor prescribed SSRI-type drug, like Prozac, for the depression I then had and that triggered my bipolar disease. Luckily that's a mild form and mostly my biggest problem is still OCD.
I've had all kinds of compulsions and obsessions, they come and, luckily, also go. Counting, symmetry-things, checking, washing, are the mildest. I also have some kind of compulsatory movements, especially when I'm stressed. The first terrible symptom was when I thought I was lesbian. After that started one in which I thought I was some kind of pedophil or something horrible like that. It was terrible, really horrible. Now I have other worries, which I've written in another thread.
Anyway, I want to give you all a big hug and also a thank you note for reading this long post
May our future be a bit less obsessed. And may we help each other and walk a bit together in this sad path, that OCD is. Maybe the journey is not so bad, when you are not alone
Thought of making a proper introduction since I've started writing here today.
I'm 36, have had OCD since childhood andmild bipolar disease was diagnosed 2,5 years ago. Haven't been able to work after that.
I've had lots of problems with my parents and my childhood was not a happy one. I've divorced once and have been in a realtionship for over 4 years.
As I have suffered OCD for over 25 years, I'm a veteran as an OCD-sufferer. First it was compulsions and then when I was probably about 12 obsessive thought apeared. At first it wasn't such a big problem, but gradually became worse. I managed school and university and even worked for 9 years until about 2,5 years, when I was hospitalized for a short while.
When I was about 20 one doctor prescribed SSRI-type drug, like Prozac, for the depression I then had and that triggered my bipolar disease. Luckily that's a mild form and mostly my biggest problem is still OCD.
I've had all kinds of compulsions and obsessions, they come and, luckily, also go. Counting, symmetry-things, checking, washing, are the mildest. I also have some kind of compulsatory movements, especially when I'm stressed. The first terrible symptom was when I thought I was lesbian. After that started one in which I thought I was some kind of pedophil or something horrible like that. It was terrible, really horrible. Now I have other worries, which I've written in another thread.
Anyway, I want to give you all a big hug and also a thank you note for reading this long post
May our future be a bit less obsessed. And may we help each other and walk a bit together in this sad path, that OCD is. Maybe the journey is not so bad, when you are not alone 
