New, Teen with OCD

[Aaron]

Hey guys,

I just joined the forums because OCD has gotten to the point in me where its hard to handle now. I have gay little violent thoughts about my family. I would never for anything anybody could possible give me hurt anybody in my family. Im 14 and in 9th grade. Ive had signs of OCD since I was a little kid. I remember having ticks like blinking that I guess are signs of OCD.

I remember when I was in 6th grade, I would walk with some friends and have a weird thought about something while I would walk over a line, and have to go back and walk over it again. If I didnt I would feel terrible for the rest of the day and have to talk to my mom about it.

She has been very supportive. She lets me tell her any stupid thoughts I have so I can get them off my chest. If it werent for her, I have no idea where I would be now. She let me know about OCA (Obsessive Compulsive Anoynomous).

I skateboard a lot but OCD has started affecting me when I skate. I have 2 sponsors skateboarding but im guessing not for long if I cant land anything because of a thought I have in the middle of a trick or something.

I just wanna know if anybody else has problems close to mine.

 

[Thatsgranderful]

yeah being a teen with OCD sucks...I'm 17 and in 11th grade, which probably is the hardest year of them all because I have so many tests to take and yet I never have the time to stop and study because I am always preoccupied with my obsessive thoughts...

anyway yeah I pretty much have the same problems as you; I sometimes have weird violent thoughts that could deal with anything, I always have to avoid the cracks/line on tiles (I actually used to only walk on the lines, but for some reason I changed), I am always thinking of something (whether its a song stuck in my head or even just a random thought), etc...

I also always tell my mom my obsessive random thoughts...for example whenever I have a random thought (like why didn't the guy who invented the keyboard put the numbers in alphabetical order? did he use some mathematical equation to arrange the letters to the number of times we use each word?), I would always go and ask her...and even though she thought I was pretty crazy, she would always help me find the answers...