I have not ever been diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder although I am only seventeen and am an obsessive person, just not usually in an OCD way. The thing is that over the last couple of weeks I've started portraying kind of worrying behaviors that are starting to really get to me. As a child I was always easily grossed by germs and such, no one was allowed to drink or eat out of the same cup or bowl, I'd write in very organised ways with preciseness and very evenly but nothing of any real concern. Now though, I've become somewhat preoccupied with these other traits. Like when I walk, I count my steps in groups of twelve, or I can only have a minimum of four glasses of water for example. I step on every crack on a footpath, first with my left foot and than with my right, I repeat myself to make sure I've said something right and that's about it at the moment. It's all pretty new and kind of came out of nowhere which confuses me, it's not like I think something bad will happen if I don't do any of this, I just have this feeling of emptiness, like something is stirring in my stomach and I just have to do this thing. I know my best option is to bring this up with my therapists and of course no one here can actually diagnose me over the internet, but does this sound like early signs of OCD?
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