matilda_girlie
New member
Hi i'm new here and i joined this website because i think i have OCD, well i'm pretty sure that i do.
I have a time wise obsession with being clean and germs, sometimes i can get this nagging feeling that something is dirty. For example if i'm refilling a water bottle, i have to wash it a few times because i get paranoid that there is still old water. And once when i had been horseback riding i got my finger in my mouth in the car by accident, and i was so scared that i had gotten these germs inside of me that would kill me. So i wouldn't swallow and i built up all this saliva in my mouth for the twenty min car ride, then i spat it out when i came home.
I also have a tendency of not throwing things away, i get strong attachments towards object and can't throw stuff away. I have to turn lights on and off and thouch things, and if i don't do it i get this biting, nagging feeling in my stomach like somethings pulling my stomach out, and it goes away if i do the thing.
I also have these rituals in my mind which i have to perform or else something bad will happen to my family. I'm constantly concerned that somethings going to happen to the people around that our house will get robbed or burn down.
I have to check things all the time, like is the tap on. Even though i logically in my mind know that i turned it of, this other side the doubt and fear makes me check.
I've had this for a very long time, it doesn't take up as much of my time as it used to, i managed to work through some of it, but i know that when i mention this to adults (im seventeen) they just say it's a common thing with kids and will go away eventually.
Does anyone know...or is this just something which will go away????
I have a time wise obsession with being clean and germs, sometimes i can get this nagging feeling that something is dirty. For example if i'm refilling a water bottle, i have to wash it a few times because i get paranoid that there is still old water. And once when i had been horseback riding i got my finger in my mouth in the car by accident, and i was so scared that i had gotten these germs inside of me that would kill me. So i wouldn't swallow and i built up all this saliva in my mouth for the twenty min car ride, then i spat it out when i came home.
I also have a tendency of not throwing things away, i get strong attachments towards object and can't throw stuff away. I have to turn lights on and off and thouch things, and if i don't do it i get this biting, nagging feeling in my stomach like somethings pulling my stomach out, and it goes away if i do the thing.
I also have these rituals in my mind which i have to perform or else something bad will happen to my family. I'm constantly concerned that somethings going to happen to the people around that our house will get robbed or burn down.
I have to check things all the time, like is the tap on. Even though i logically in my mind know that i turned it of, this other side the doubt and fear makes me check.
I've had this for a very long time, it doesn't take up as much of my time as it used to, i managed to work through some of it, but i know that when i mention this to adults (im seventeen) they just say it's a common thing with kids and will go away eventually.
Does anyone know...or is this just something which will go away????
