What do you known about OCD?

Can you grow out of severe OCD?

• When I was a child, I'm pretty sure I had OCD but it never became a doctor known problem. If I saw a pair of shoes on the floor that weren't perfectly straight I would go over and fix them and if I didn't and tried to ignore it, it would bother me until I had to go over and fix the problem. I had to touch things a certain amount of time until I felt content. It sucked. But, now that I am 18 yrs old, I realize now that I'm pretty sure I had slight OCD as a child. Things I do now are to touch and push down on slight switches to make sure they're either on or off all the way and I move around things to make sure I don't touch it and if I think I did, I have to backtrack and do the same movement again and make sure I didn't touch what I was trying to avoid. lol. I sound like a crazy person but I promise I'm not like some basketcase. lol. Anyway, can you grow out of more severe OCD? I'm not on medication and I don't need it but I know I have major anxiety anyway so that doesn't help. I'm also a hypocondriact. Anywho, please answer my question. I'm not a freak.

• Answer:

  Lol i am the same way. And would like to know. I have to go downstairs nightly...i check the front door make sure its locked..walk over to see if my brother is okay. Walk by the kitchen, make sure the knobs on the stove are turned off. I watch my bf go over and touch them to make sure there off, and i have to run over and check again just because he touched them. I do that whole switch thing. I worry constantly about my mom. and other stupid things lol i must sound like a freak.