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Old Dec 14, 2012, 01:08 PM
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I don't know why but I am never satisfied.

I obsessed over the fact that I might have OCD and googled it endlessly. I found a therapist who diagnosed me with it, Adhd-I and depression. Now, I am not satisfied. I don't "feel" like I have OCD anymore, if that makes sense. I have learned more about it but I just don't know. I think I do, but I also think I don't. I search it, read the symptoms, but it isn't me. What I do is mainly ruminating. I guess you can say I have "pure O". I spend most of my time online searching but I never find the answers I'm looking for.

Do I have OCD? According to my therapist, yes. But I don't know. My fears aren't contamination, order, religious, sexual. My fears are purely mental. Am I crazy? I don't know. Am I alive? What does being alive mean? Do I exist? Why do I have a body? Those thoughts. It never ends.

Do I have OCD? I don't know. What does having OCD mean? I don't know. I've searched it a thousand times but I still don't know anything.

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Old Dec 14, 2012, 08:01 PM
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My fears aren't contamination, order, religious, sexual. My fears are purely mental.
it sounds like all this research is OCD, to me... you are obsessing over your OCD. That isn't uncommon... So yes, I think that you do have it.

maybe you could elaborate a little more on it being purely mental. what is it that you are afraid is going to happen? (I don't mean this sarcastically, I really am curious...) My OCD has a lot to do with contamination, but its contamination of thoughts... if that makes sense... so I guess you could say that mine in mental as well. Its inside my head....
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Old Dec 14, 2012, 09:16 PM
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I'm afraid of losing my mind completely. I don't even know why I'm so afraid of it. It used to be that I was afraid of being possessed by a demon but now my fears have changed, but not a lot. I'm still afraid of "losing control". Being possessed by a demon and going crazy are kind of the same in that way. I don't even like going out in public sometimes because I feel like people know there is something wrong with me. I don't really know how I would go about confronting this fear as it is an idea rather than something concrete. So in my head I am just lost.
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