I don't know, I am feeling a little more normal while I read this. I don't talk about this but I will today. I am a mother of six, and since I was about 11 or so I started having weird reactions, for example, having to close the door six times over and over, counting to six frontward and backward. It was not all the time, but enough. As I got older I started throwing myself on my knees six to seven times at time and praying. As time passed, more and more things started happening. For example I would pray for a long time and would have to count to seven before picking certain thing at the store. It kept on getting worse. Now I don't know I pray in the morning thinking all kinds of things have to stop myself still thinking bad thoughts, then I try to make breakfast as these thoughts are still there so I stop in the middle of the kitchen and start praying again as the food burns and I know I have to stop. I can't I keep on. I’m praying even as the kids call me or the baby cries. I keep on praying. I know I need to stop but these thoughts are strong. Finally I get up see what I can salvage from breakfast but before I feed the kids we pray again. By this time we’re running late for school and get in the car I count to seven like always. We have to clap our hands and I start praying again as the kids tell me mom come on. We are going to be late for school. if I keep on explaining everything I will write a book. I can't even believe I am writing about this. story short. there are 24 hours in the day. I burn things all the time because I am praying or washing my hands seven to eight times. I pray over 15 times a day and they are not short. If I am grocery shopping it takes me two to three and a half hours because I can't pick certain things that I want or I have to pick up the same item seven to eight times. for example I want a box of cheerios so I pick up one box then I put it back, then get another box of cheerios, then put it back then the next and next until I get to the seventh or eighth because I believe something very bad will happen. and that is how I do my groceries. And when I pray, normally each prayer is longer than 20 to 25 minutes. sometimes about 45 minutes at a time. if I pray in the car a lot of times I have to turn off the car and take the key of the ignition, take my seatbelt of and open the door. about ten hours of my day goes on this. The time I have left I am the one that cooks for my children and even sometimes I have to make another meal because one burns. I help them with their homework, I cut their hair, say I love you like a hundred times a day, hug them kiss them. I want to be somewhat as I was to them. It seems that even this started when I was little and it keeps on getting worse. Because I was a better mom to them. I could not write down every (ritual) that I have but it seems to me that every time I hear about something bad happening it gets worse. I just sing and play with our children all the time. I am always worried now.

i'm only fourteen but i really think i have ocd. i constantly have reoccuring thoughts in my head and they will not go away. and i don't know if this might be considered ocd, but i'm really superstitious and every time i see a thirteen i draw sevens on my left wrist with my fingers or it feels like i'll have bad luck for the rest of the day. and every time i look at the clock, for some reason unknown i have to add the numbers up until i get a seven. and every time i step on a new terrain it absolutely has to be with my left foot. every time i turn around i absolutely cannot ever turn to the right. please, i really need to know because this has been going on for about a year now.

I know I don't have OCD because barely any of my symptoms match, yet the symptoms I do have can only really be linked to OCD. The issue I have is more to do with thinking of things and never actually physically doing them. I don't check, lock, watch or perform any rituals but instead I sometimes think too much and become paranoid about thinking too much, that is really the only way of describing it.

I have been doing some research to see if I have OCD. I constantly think about things I shouldn`t and worry about things I shouldn`t. I have no sense of concentration. my mind and brain are constantly racing with thoughts. The most recent is that my husband doesn`t want to be with me or he is mad at me or what he thinks of me. I have a perfect family and husband, he would do anything for me. What is going on? I also have a lot of unwanted thoughts and constantly fear something bad happening and that something is wrong with me. Does anyone else feel this way? And has anyone taken any medicine to relieve the thoughts?

I believe that I have OCD. I have weird dark thoughts, some are sexual (about family members) and some about death, funerals, thinking of myself dying and watching people come to my funeral. It's very disturbing to me, because I am a pretty normal person with good family and people around me. Also I found myself doing some compulsive things like picking on my head, and also feel that when I am in public people are constantly talking or laughing at me. actually now it feels much better to understand why I have all those crazy thoughts and behaviors.

Please help me, I'm not sure if I have OCD. I've noticed I've had strange behaviors since I was really little. I'm 16 now but when I was little I would constantly take baths and change my clothes because I felt dirty, like over four times a day. And in elementary school when we had to clean out our desks, my teacher said I didn't need to because mine was already perfect. But I would still take everything out and clean out my desk again. Soap and all.

Now, I have a huge compulsive thing about books and paper in general. When I turn pages I have to do it slowly and I can't let it get bent the slightest. I feel like crying when my friends come in to my room and start touching my stuff, especially the books.

I have to have everything in my room just so. I am constantly rearranging the stuff on my desk. When I'm doing homework it takes me hours to complete because I reread everything constantly. My writing must be perfect. I can't have a smudge on the paper. I even rewrite all of my notes every single day if they're not neat.

Me and my mom get really angry at each other because when she touches my papers, I'm always telling her she's ruining it.

I'm constantly paranoid about everything. I think everyone is talking about me.

And sometimes I think some pretty disturbing stuff. I try not to think about it but it just happens. I feel disgusting when it happens.

What's wrong with me? Do I have OCD? Or am I just weird?

i just turned 16 and i'm pretty sure ive got ocd. i cant touch toilets or anything that might have germs on it.

everytime my sister coughs i have to go into my room and block the door so no one can open the door and let the air in. i have to wait for 10 minutes (i actually chose to take a 3- hour train journey on my own to go on holiday instead of going in the car with her, when i saw her take chewing gum out of her mouth, play with it, then chew again. i flipped out because she got her spit on her hands and a couple of days later i heard my family griping about it)

i have to tread an even number of times with each foot on different types of terrain.

i always close my curtains in case someone is watching me.

when i hear people laugh i always think it's about me.

i wash my hands three times; twice with a bar of soap and once with fairy liquid. this was originally because i had a pet rat but now i dont fear his germs anymore.

my mum told me to read this science fiction book. one of the characters has similar things. i think she's dropping a hint but i also think i'm paranoid.

i can't use other people's head phones.

i always use different cups, plates, etc. from my family and/or wash them myself before each meal (this has become so bad i eat only one meal a day).

i have intense feelings of hatred and disgust toward my sister to the point where i can't even look at her, but i think this is because i'm convinced she is the favourite (that doesn't make it true).

i am distressed by these irrational actions to the point of self harm.

What the hell is my problem?

well i'm not really sure if i have OCD..

i always have the urge to repeat anything i do, and if i don't then it just doesn't feel right, like i start to feel guilty i guess. Then like when i'm at home, i have to check every door in my home to make sure they're closed and/or locked. i check to see if my front and back main house doors are locked almost every time i walk past them. And i also have constant thoughts of death or like something's watching me or near me. And like before i eat my food or go to bed at night when i say my prayers and end them with an "amen", i feel the tendency to constantly say amen over and over again, like the one before wasn't good enough or something. i don't know. then when i finally get done saying my prayers before i go to bed i will sleep for like 5 or 7 minutes then wake right back up and i have a constant thought in my head telling me to re-pray, so basically i'm repeating the same thing over and over until it feels perfect and then i can sleep. clothes in my closet have to be color coordinated. i don't know why but it just doesn't feel right if they're not. all of my pants have to be folded a certain way and shirts hung a certain way. i don't feel right or comfortable when my clothes are hanging over/out of my dresser drawers. oh and like my boyfriend gets sort of agitated when i kiss him a counted number amount of times. and each time we kiss it has to be the same exact number amount of times we kissed the previous time. i'm convinced i have ocd, but i'm just not sure. Is there a slight chance I could have OCD?

anon14503 --- Yes you have OCD. From personal experience, and dealing with some of the exact obsessions as you, I know what you are dealing with. Pure OCD attacks everything you find important to you in your life. These are just thoughts that produce anxiety and they say nothing more about you than that you hate such notions so much that you develop an anxiety disorder around them. You are not your thoughts.

one day my friend was eating pringles in my bed and left a few crumbs so i started crying cause i'm just like that. last year i used to constantly itch/scratch my side of my knee and if i did one i had to do another and i couldn't stop!! it didn't even itch and at night i sleep with these 3 animals and i have to kiss them before i go to bed the same and it has to be fair so i can't give one 2 kisses, and all my hangers have to be facing out, do i have OCD?

Yeah okay so i have this thing that i have to do with the toilet roll and like i have to have the inside of one toilet roll sticking out of the new one, idk why but i have to . My mom is convinced i have OCD, but i went to counseling and the lady said i didn't have it. My mom still wants to get me Medicine for it. It's not threatening my health or life so idk why i need it. Oh yeah and the lady told me that it could make me have suicidal thoughts and that scared me badly so i need some advice.

My mama and my sister said that i have ocd...Cuz i close everything after they get done..

I'm a 19 year old who just realized recently that I could have OCD, but I'm not sure..

it's been going on for years now, far as i can remember as a kid i would always check under my bed

(to see if theres someone or something hiding underneath my bed) sure every kid goes through that, so i ignored it. but then years went by and i still continue this but then i've added on my obsessive behaviors to the list, like before i leave the house, i check to see if i unplugged the kettle and switched off my hair straightener then just when im about to leave the house i go back and do the same thing, then before i go to sleep i go down stairs to the kitchen, check up on the stove, again the kettle then the doors then the lights!

and even though i know i've checked these things i still go back and check up on them again and again and maybe almost every time i walk pass the area. and its really starting to affect me..

cause i realized theres just more and more things getting added onto the list now i check up on loved ones too, to see if they're safe. I think i annoy my little brother cause i always yell out his name from the other room about 5 times to get a answer from him, and hear that his ok when his just in his room playing games. i also repeat religious stuff and im not sure why i do all these but i think its about time i stop cause its starting to affect me and the more i try avoiding the problem the worse it seems to get..

My friend is convinced I have OCD, I rearrange things constantly, including every one of his poker chips by color. When sitting at school, i set up my notebooks parallel to the desk, and before i go to sleep I need my door closed, or else it drives me crazy. I also have this thing i do with my hands where I repeatedly and rapidly clench and unclench my hands when stressed or nervous. Also when starting homework, i can go through up to 5 sheets of perfectly good paper because I dont like how my name looks at the top. I tell him i dont have it, but Im not really sure.

I am almost sure that I have OCD as well as Touretts. I also stutter. I am now 62. As a younger person I would make noises and exaggerate a cough. I still blink excessively. While driving I sometimes keep looking to the right side which is totally unnecessary. For over 40 years I chewed the inside of my cheek until last year when a dentist scared the crap out of me, asking for a biopsy trying to determine if it was cancer. Yep...the fear of cancer can cure some ocd symptoms. As you can see I am majorly messed up. But in spite of it all I am quite successful, have a beautiful family and I am certain that I am mentally ill.

anon4398 -- I went through my teen years...two straight years with one massive headache that was painful and surreal. I understand totally what you mean by the massive headache. I called mine "Funny Headaches" because they were painful but also "different" than other headaches..more surreal. Do you have a close friend you can confide in? I recommend printing off some research on OCD and finally telling a medical professional. I waited 20 years to tell a doctor! A good start is telling someone and stress that this is ruining your life and no laughing manner. I would try your mom again...and if she doesnt listen don't worry you are not alone..you will find someone who will listen! We all are.

Hi all my life i have had excessive worries like i used to worry i had cancer, then i worried i was gay, then i used to freak out because i thought i was going blind and everyone knew but me, then i worried i was pregnant, then i thought i had aids and used to have thoughts that i was like really skinny and i used to feel like that then, then I was worried i was a man trapped in a woman's body, that seemed soo real at the time i was convinced i actually wanted to be a man..then i was worried i was going insane and would get intrusive thoughts about awful stuff such as worms coming out of my eyes (as i heard someone who had psychosis used to think this) i actually believed i thought there was worms under my eyes eventually, and worried i would have the urge to pull my eyes out, i would then get an anxiety attack, i knew deep down i really didn't believe that, but something was making me believe it was true. I also suffered from anorexia, the last condition i had was i believed i wanted to be a man, then i developed what may be HOCD which seemed really real, then the wanting to be a man thing disappeared and i developed a different more disturbing fear (which began as an awful, horrible dream) then when i woke i thought omg, do i actually think that? then i began thinking that, and would have horrible thoughts which made me feel even worse, it seems so real, this worry, that i'm worried it is real, and if it is i'd rather die. Do you think i have OCD or do i have OCD and the last worry be the only one thats true..even though my other worries seemed as real at the time too.HELP

I am adding onto my previous one. at night, i have to have every single door closed. Often, i will check it many times before finally believing it is really shut. It is the same thing with windows or drapes. If it isn't shut, I automatically think that someone will come out and kill me. I then obsess with that idea, and refuse to look at that open window, drape, or door. I also have to have it perfectly dark. even if it is pitch black, i will think that somewhere, a light is still on, and look around several times to find it. once again, do i have OCD?

i am a teen, and i have this one annoying weird habit. if i'm holding something, my empty hand feels funny, because its not holding anything. i feel guilty, and switch the item. then my other hand does the same thing, and it keeps going until someone makes me stop (then both hands feel funny) or I'm forced to put the object down somewhere (where both my hands still feel funny). i do it with almost everything, except writing. I do it with tapping my feet. i do it with eating. i do it with everything. i can't stop, because i feel guilty if i don't do it. i've tried, but gave up. do i have OCD?

like i don't know if i have it or not but like if i do something and it's not right i have to do it again. like until it's fixed or right and it's not a bad case. but like it's really weird because my sisters wont take me or just tell me it's in my head i have something i just don't know what it is!!!!

-Natasha Castello

Everyday I always have the same thoughts over and over and sometimes I can't sleep. I sometimes think of disturbing things that I know are wrong. It often involves things I know everyone around me would gasp if they knew. I also do some weird things. Like for example if I tap my right foot three times,I have to tap my left foot three times, then the right again, over and over until eventually I think they are even. I used to think it was what everyone did. But I learned differently by searching it up on the Internet. I think I might have OCD! All the little things i do adds up and drive me crazy,i get massive headaches and to the point where these compulsions sometimes make me cry because I can't not do them. I got up enough courage to tell my mom about it and she practically laughed in my face,and said she's seen worse. I wish she could know how i really feel, it's killing me.I am a teen and I don't know what to do.

dear Anonymous , I most likely have OCD. If you have OCD, the thoughts occur every day for at least an hour every day. I'm pretty sure you don't have it, but I'm not a doctor, so you could still ask a doctor :D. I'm thinking the reason you have those thoughts is, you know how sometimes you tell your brain "do not think about this" and your brain disobeys you? So, I would suggest when you feel those thoughts coming, just ignore them, don't tell your brain to stop, and that might work. Sometimes my brain does the same thing as yours does. By the way I'm being tested soon to see if I have OCD..I probably do. I hope I helped! ~H.D.Y

i'm not exactly sure if i have OCD... but i always have these thoughts that are the opposite of what i really think/believe and i can't get them out of my head. for example, someone i love and know i love, or someone who i don't have any problem with at all, these thoughts come into my head saying i hate them even though i know i don't. things like these don't occur every day, but they do every now and then. could i have obsessive compulsive disorder?

Ive been going through a divorce and my ex wants to take custody of our son. When I read all his demands I couldnt stop thinking about it. I found myself the days after thinking about what he wanted and pacing all around the house. It's like I get so into what im thinking that Im not paying attention to anything else. But Ive noticed that Ive done it before with different situations. sometimes I feel like I drag things on and on. Could this mean that I have an obssesive-copulsive disorder(ocd).