I'm pretty sure I have actual OCD. Here are the following list of symptoms:>intrusive or depressive thoughts constantly on the front of my mind, themes can last for years until another one takes over>thoughts are distressing to the point that they are physically painful or cause headaches>example: one night the thoughts were so distressing that I was essentially bedridden and my brain was paralyzed in fear>frequently triple-check or quadruple-check things or repeat behaviors to make sure they are correct>brain refuses to let me focus on anything else or get thoughts out of my mind to the point that I can't concentrate or do anything that requires focus>nothing stops the thoughts, doing behaviors that you think would solve them just make them worse>overthink to an absurd degree>example: find out something potentially scary, go on an internet rabbit hole for weeks on end to know every possible thing about it. not out of curiosity, but because of compulsionI have heard medication doesn't really work for OCD, nor would I really want to take meds anyway. My brain was fine until the middle of high school, when one day I felt a very sharp pain in my brain and then this behavior started, and has been going on for a decade at this point. I don't know what to do, the only practical advice is "just ignore it" but it doesn't really work. I probably have ADHD and psychopathy or some other shit too, but I feel like OCD is the root cause of all of this.
holy shit is that real??
>>34077149Sounds like classic OCD, yes. OCD is often a comorbidity, which means it rarely travels alone, it usually has +1 other disorder that tags along with it. The most common one being Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD). 75% chance. Then major depressive disorder, 60% chance. Then ADHD, 20% chance. Autism, 6% chance give or take. Despite autism being the lowest combo, autism is the most common misdiagnosis for OCD. This is because autists have ‘routines’. And get extreme crippling anxiety if their routine is disturbed. OCD enjoyers have worse: [RITUALS]. And Rituals operate the same way as routines, with one big difference: The threat of horrors beyond comprehension. An OCD enjoyer will genuinely fear and feel if they don’t fulfill their ritual, someone they love will be harmed or die. Or themselves or something bad will happen, something ominous. Also forget about the psychopathy self-guessing. Has nothing in common with OCD at all, is absurdly rare, and if you had it, youd not be posting about your fears, psychopaths cannot feel fear.
>>34077149>I have actual OCD>I probably have ADHD parasites and toxins
>>34077193>>34077205I don't think I'm autistic, I had an autistic friend/acquaintance growing up and I certainly did not have the distinctive traits like he did. I can talk and relate to people normally (at least as far as I'm aware), though I am pretty introverted. I used to have pretty bad social anxiety but that has gone anyway in the past few years.>>34077193Sounds about right. I threw out psychopathy there just as an example. I do feel weirdly unempathetic and unable to connect with people at times even though I can fake it really well.
>>34077211>I do feel weirdly unempathetic and unable to connect with people at times even though I can fake it really well.I understand, I relate to that a lot and I had close to zero empathy from childhood to late adulthood. I developed mine later, turned out I had a lot of unresolved shit dampening my ability to empahize, untreated adhd and lifelong unresolved PTSD. It’s normal enough I wouldn’t worry. There’s two types of empathy, everyone has at least one, even psychopaths. >Cognitive empathyaka “I can imagine in thought how you approximately may feel, in my thoughts.” (no emotional feelings when thinking it)and>Affective empathyAka “When you told me the sad story or expressed the emotion, I felt it in my own body like second hand sadness or joy.” (emotion based, you feel the same emotion as someone else as it happens to them or is expressed to you) If you struggle with mental baggage of any kind at all, depression, anxiety, ocd, adhd, ptsd, whatever it is, your affective empathy goes bye bye. But not forever. And you will always have cognitive empathy, even psychopaths have that much at least. Though psychopaths may never gain or regain affective empathy, its said the parts required for the brain to do it just aint there for psychos. Anyway everyone will always ‘fake’ it if they lost the affective empathy, its called masking. Which is probably the among one of the most common human behaviours. Doesnt mean psychopathy necessarily.
>>34077211>I don't think I'm autisticits all connected
