Inside the Lives of Young OCD Sufferers | Real Families 

Thank you for sharing! Just curious, do you see a therapist? If so, are there any specific types of therapies they’ve used?

I am glad paxil worked for you. It was a nightmare for me, horrible side effects, I could not even get off it without withdrawal. I wouldn’t wish paxil on anyone, the same way I wouldn’t wish ocd on anyone 😭😔 I opted to take the holistic route, it has been challenging but I have faith all is well. Healing to everyone 🙏🏼

You are being attacked by evil spirits of fear and lies. These can be rebuked, renounced and bound away in Jesus name. But first you would need to get saved. Confess your sins (we all sin) and repent. Ask Jesus to forgive all your sins and come into your life and save you. Put your faith in him. Realize that God raised Jesus from the dead and he’s alive forever. Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe it in your heart and you’ll be saved. Then get water baptized. After that, you have his authority to cast out spirits using his name

@@amberrose1108 please stop spreading harmful misinformation, Amber. i know your heart is in the right place but this is not the work of "evil spirits" and it is extremely dangerous and damaging for you to say these completely false things to people who are actually suffering with a real condition.

Same here , generalized anxiety plus panic / anxiety attacks plus PTSD and OCD.

Amberrose1108 ocd is a caused by anxiety not by evil spirits ,read online to understand and get your facts right

It can

I had a really good childhood. Amazing vacations, great parents, amazing opportunities. But my mental health still sucks. I literally feel bad for my parents bc I was adopted and they have done everything they can for me and they end up with someone with anxiety, depression, OCD, and bipolar. They don’t complain and do absolutely everything to help, but sometimes I think it is just our brains. I’m not sure anything about birth parents or if they have anything to do with any of it at all. I’m 27 and i understand when they said the she hasn’t managed to go to work this week. If you don’t have it you don’t understand. Family doesn’t understand. Friends don’t understand because why can’t you just forget it? Get over it? Idk Susan the same reason you can’t mind your business? I work a few days a week now with family. OCD does come with a lot of fear and anxiety. And a lot of the things are kind of irrational and you know in the back of your head that’s not going to happen! But it is still there. You can’t make it go away. OCD isn’t cleaning but I’m also a germaphobe and a neat freak which means when I start I can’t stop. (That’s just from staying with my grandmother when I was younger though. It’s embedded in my head now If one dish is in the sink the house the house is nasty. And what if you have a wreck or die and you left your bed unmade or didn’t shower or left a dish? Someone else will have to deal with that or you’ll be stuck dirty in a hospital) sorry that’s a lot. But I mean it is a lot. I don’t know how else to explain it.

it's different for everyone. for some people yes it can play a part in it. for others it doesn't

Actually it’s not so weird when we use gloves wipe things down etc. For some of us it helps us fit in more when in public and for me the hardest part is not being like the rest of the world where people think you’re weird

Funny thing is i have severe ocd, and covid felt oddly calm cus it was the first time everyone around the world kinda understood the uncertainty i feel daily

Yeah, when covid hit my OCD went through the roof, I fully agree with Ginger and John's comment...I feel the same. But it's as if the rest of the world doesn't take Covid seriously enough, but we do.

Nope! But, that is a popular misconception about ocd.

​@@JamesVestal-dz5qmI wouldn't say nope overall, because I have OCD myself and have experienced a lot of stress over Covid, as have many other people with OCD. Not all, but many.

Why? It's set after the first time

Not being rude by any means...but IF people with OCD so rituals to prevent bad stuff from happening, how do they cope when something does happen even when they do the rituals?? Like one person said if she didn't do it 10 times her mom would die....well what happens when her mom is like 80 and she does her "ritual" and her mom dies anyways?

@@natalieatkinson-dy1nv This is funny in a way if you put it that way, I have OCD too (Checking and contamination OCD) in my case I do "rituals" because I feel it's extremely important to do it, for example the other day I struggled to bring pills for my mom, because as soon as I touched the box of pills it triggered and I got a vision (which happens daily with different things) I saw in this case a vision of where I had brought the pills at (behind the counter) then I saw the line of sick people going to the same counter to get medicine I then saw some people coughing and whatever sickness they have landed on the counter where the box of pills I brought was put. I then saw me at home (where I was busy preparing the pills for my mom) then I saw me touching the glass which I was about to get and then the jug of water next (transferring those diseases to the glass and jug), I then saw giving it to my mom and she touching the glass with the diseases on then touching the pills (transferring the diseases to the pills) then I saw her drinking those pills and get another sickness on top of the one she already has and in my vision this caused her death because her body couldn't handle two diseases at once, when I saw this I instantly had to do my ritual to prevent it from happening by washing my hands after touching the pill box, so yeah...that's what I did and that's what I saw and what I saw was personal and extremely disturbing (and would be for anyone who love their mother), so yeah and this happens every day of my life with so many things and I can't help seeing these horrible things, it would stress out anyone and you would rather do the "ritual" to prevent it from happening and that reduces the anxiety.

​@@natalieatkinson-dy1nvAs someone with OCD who had that happen....it's not easy, I'm not fully sure how I managed, honestly I just kinda went harder with the compulsions.

Exposure-Response Prevention therapy is the golden standard for treating OCD usually done along side courses of CBT.

Exposure therapy and radical acceptance therapy helps, the last one is especially useful for rumination and intrusive thoughts

I’m struggling with that too I put my arms above the light switch to make sure it’s off so ocd

It can be from trauma, but it can also be genetic

well, the hairdresser knows that the reason they're even doing this assignment is because it's a part of a documentary on people with OCD, so i'm sure they weren't offended

I have OCD myself, and I would often feel really bad when I would not want to be with them because the environment didn’t feel safe for me or I wouldn’t eat the food they served because I didn’t believe it as safe to eat. I’m not trying to shame you for commenting that, I’m just trying to say that although someone might feel bad for others about what they are doing they can’t just stop for that reason.

That's cruel and just a punisment. Not to mention that's not even how OCD works.

Saying this doesn't make any sense, it's like saying to someone don't get rid of the snake that snuck into your house, IT DOESN'T HELP!!!

Yes they do. These are caused by evil spirits of fear.

The thing is, in my experience with OCD, wherever there are more pressing or physical related issues like being sick, in pain, hungry or thirsty (as it could be in a third world country), other types of thoughts tend to go away or be subdued. Some people in third world countries might have it ,but will never know so 'cause your brain makes it a priority to keep yourself alive and healthy, on a physical level first. Always. If you haven't got that worry symptoms might start occurring still.

@@amplifiedemotions994 that’s what I figured, I just wasn’t sure. Thanks for your input.

Ocd stems from anxiety so I would say a lot of people would suffer if they're anxious about survival or natural disasters etc

It does. Mental illness doesn't discriminate

I started my OCD symptoms at 9 and I was always a loving daughter and sister. I had a wonderful childhood. I never felt that I did anything to confess or have to repent or ask Jesus to forgive. I was just a child.

Personally, selling my soul to Satan really helped my OCD. To each their own.

Can you stop?