Hello PsychSearcher0: Welcome to PsychCentral. PC is a great place to gain support, learn strategies for handling mental health concerns, & to make internet friends. There are many wonderfully supportive members here on PsychCentral.

Rest assured you will not attract any of the abuse here you attracted on some other websites. While we may not have experienced specifically what you have, we all have other similar experiences. So we can relate to what you've posted, or may yet post. (Hopefully you will decide to stay with us & continue to post.)

Personally I'm not going to offer an opinion with regard to what's going on with you. I prefer to leave this to the professionals. And I would like to encourage you to seek professional advice with regard to it. Have you shared this with your current therapist. If so, what has this person said?

The reason I think it is important for you to pursue this is because my personal experience, with my own mental health problems, is they have tended to become very gradually worse as I have gotten older. I see, by your post, you are now 20 & you are managing your OCD well via therapy & self-management. This is great! However (without meaning to scare you in any way) I would have some concern, whatever is the source of the experiences you describe, it could very gradually grow to cause you more difficulty as you get older than it does now. Obviously, I don't know this for sure. But it is a concern I would have based on how my life has progressed over the years.

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