OCD. A thread.

[probably deleting later]

So like I hate talking about this normally, it's something that I'm really ashamed and embarassed about but I just wanna talk about it now. I've had OCD for like a few years now, and it tears my life apart. But, word of advice, if someone around you has OCD, giving them a hard...

...time about it is one of the most crappy things you can do. It's such a difficult thing to live with, and being looked down on/made fun of for your OCD just adds to the suffering, especially when you have the harder types like Mental contamination OCD which I have...

...where basically you have these horrible intrusive thoughts and you need to do your compulsions to get rid of them. It sucks. There are things that trigger the intrusive thoughts and then there's the compulsions that you have to do to get rid of them. It's horrible to live...

...with and it tears apart your life. And people tend to say "ignore it, it's fine", these intrusive thoughts aren't something that makes you a little uncomfortable. They make you feel disgusted or horrified, and you have to do the compulsions or they won't leave. And when...

...everything becomes a trigger, your life falls to pieces, especially if it's something that happens/you see constantly. When I told my parents about my OCD they pretended it didn't exist and thought I was being stupid, and everytime I feel the need to do my compulsions....

...they ridicule me and make me feel so terrible. It's so much suffering. The little things that people take for granted like being able to go up a staircase or flicking a light switch without having intrusive thoughts are so difficult for me because I need to need these super...

...specific rules set by my brain in order to do them. But yeah. That's my experience with OCD. Like I said, I don't really talk about it much because I'm ashamed of it, which is why I'm deleting this thread later. But if you know anyone with OCD PLEASE just be caring for them.