Wow, it is amazing to read everyones different experiences. It gives
me a sense that I am not alone.
My story is a long one, but I will try to condense it. When I was
sixteen years old I was raped by an older man at a party, while
heavily intoxicated. What makes it worse is, I was a virgin. Anyway, I
didn’t really realise that it was rape until a year later. I was
sitting in class six months … Read The Rest >>
My name is John and I have OCD, It’s taken me quite a while to
admit to it. 35 years. Phew. I have had anxiety on and off throughout
my life but OCD in in the latter part of my life. It’s triggered by
stress so if I get really run down then out comes the OCD dragon.
There is a history of sexual abuse in my family. My sister was
sexually abused by my Grandad and another sister was … Read The Rest >>
Recently I was diagnosed with OCD after a solid year of battling
extremely distracting and aggressive, violent, gory thoughts about
the death of myself and my loved ones, in some cases I would think
about myself hurting them. I loved to think about falling down the
stairs, jumping off a bridge, falling or impaling objects, and my
personal favorite, car accidents.
Eventually I could no longer drive because I became fearful that all
these thoughts about car accidents would cause it to … Read The Rest >>
I am a lifer. 45 years of the disease. A ruined life (or should I
say a severely compromised life). How good it could have been, if
only. . .
I function in society, run a business, but feel pain and anguish most
of the time. I won’t even try to go through the evolution of my OCD,
as I have had probably every conceivable configuration and iteration
of the disease, since age 13. Medicine … Read The Rest >>
As in the case of many sufferers, OCD has taken on many forms during my life, ranging from compulsive hand-washing to paranoia about AIDS.
Then there was, of course, “If I don’t get out of the bathroom within five seconds, my mother will die”, and all that kind of rubbish. The biggest, most destructive and enduring form for me though has been obsessions that my partners have been unfaithful, and seizing upon any tiny little scrap … Read The Rest >>
The stories published here have been submitted to me over the years. They are a little glimpse inside of OCD. Without a doubt they are the most viewed pages on either of my OCD sites.
They are, with the exception of spell checking, unedited.
I originally started publishing them almost ten years ago in order to let people with OCD know they were not alone.
And perhaps let those who know something is wrong with them but not sure what it was, see something here that leads them to seek help.
From the email I receive, both of these happen frequently.
If you have OCD and would like to contribute your story. You may contact me using the link found up at the top
