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Ashamed of seeking help for OCD. Need advice.?

  • I'm an 18 year old healthy male, I study, work out and live a healthy life. Ever since I was a child, I've had obsessive and intrusive thoughts. I may have not known it back then, but now I can recall those memories. I have been suffering all alone with my OCD, I have not looked for help nor have I taken any medication to ease the anxiety. I switch themes all the time and I am caught up in a cycle of obsessively thinking about things no matter how irrational the thoughts are. I have anxiety almost all the time. Themes include religion, sexuality, disgusting thoughts, morality, sleep, disease, sociability, body image, hell, death, murder, intrusive thoughts, repeating of words, things I cannot find an answer to, etc. I worry about almost anything and I can remember having tics as early as 4 years old. The intrusive thoughts, not being able to shove disgusting and terrible thoughts away, developing a compulsion, I constantly repeat phrases in my mind, if I don't then I experience severe anxiety. After years of struggling with OCD, I feel that now is the time for me to seek for help, but I find it hard to do so. I fear that telling my father about my condition will forever change how he will look at me. I admit it, I am ashamed, I fear their reaction. My father has bipolar disorder and he takes medication for it. My mother also has a history of mental illness, so I believe that I must have inherited their mental illness. I struggle to fight anxiety away everyday. It does not matter where I am, I always have to have an obsession. Whenever an obsessive theme fades, I suddenly have an obsession resurface from the recesses of my mind. I am a total wreck right now, I've slept for 11 hours straight and I still feel sleepy and I have no appetite. I feel like I'm going through a nervous breakdown. What should I do? Or what should I say to my parents? Maybe I am just seeking reassurance right now? I don't know, but I do know that I don't feel right, and that OCD is ruining my life. I have no friends right now in college, and I am so tired of it.

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    mentiel dissabilities are nothing to be ashamed of, you made a good step by putting it out on the web, thats a form of seeking help. and not every one needs to know you business, and i mean by that dont tel every one that your going to get help for it or that you have it. seeking help is a good thing and a mayjor step into helping yourself. and makes you that much closer to getting better

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You should never be ashamed of who you are. I also have sevear OCD and Tourette's, so know that you are not alone. :) You should tell your parents and be confident when you do. Never give up! Be proud that you have OCD and Tourette's! Good luck! Jaydon

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I had some of the habits and thought patterns your talking about, I used to sort and organize buttons, nuts and bolts, or stacks of magazines when I was 5 or 6, and when I got older it turned into obsessive negative thoughts that only fed my anxiety. Also, my biological father had severe bipolar disorder as well, and my mother and step dad suggested putting me on meds a few times but I refused to cooperate with them or the shrink. Maybe you need professional help, but I think putting a label on yourself and declaring yourself inadequate at such a young age, and having that image of yourself enabled by a shrink who just wants to put you on drugs, is not the solution. You probably aren't being challenged in college, because your ability to focus and think about things is the exact opposite of the average 18 year old, and the educational system you've been going through is set up for them, not you. But your difference can be a strength, once you find something you're passionate about you will be able to devote your focus to that instead of to worrying needlessly about everyday life and teenage melodrama. Once you get into whatever field of work you chose, you'll stop worrying so much about mundane everyday things and stuff like friends and relationships will work themselves out without so much effort.

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