I’ve had severe ocd pretty much all my life, and because of the nature of the condition it’s been misunderstood pretty heavily. I was permabanned from reddit due to “misinformation” when i said that ocd can make you do immoral things and that not everyone on it is an innocent perfectionist. It’s really not misinformation since there are many studies of ocd in severe cases causing people’s intrusive thoughts to become real. For me personally it happened and I started having delusions, I was seeing shadowy things I thought god was tormenting me, i started having tics and becoming a little pushy with the people around me and self harmful. I went to the mental hospital after an attempt and got ostracized for being too “crazy” or told that they’re certain I had something else. Alas, when I was removed from the abusive situation that sparked the ocd psychosis it went away and i went back to my normal state. It is frustrating that some mental illness communities will exclude you if you happen to cross a line where somehow you are undeserving of help or even basic rights. They do this because they want their disease to be looked at as cute and quirky. ocd people are just anxious they could never do any wrong or loose their minds! they say. because they are scared to be grouped with individuals that don’t fit societies standards of attractive. I’ve also seen this happen in the Autistic community, where low functioning people don’t get a fraction of the resources and visibility that the high functioning people do. I felt like this was the right place to post and I wanted to ask, does anyone else have experiences being ostracized in this way? Or are those severe OCD people such as myself more accepted in communities such as this one where psychotic episodes aren’t as stigmatized? I don’t have much support and I’d just like to know more about people more similar to my situation
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I would recommend breaking down your long post into short paragraphs, so it’s easier for people to read. Sometimes when someone makes a long post, people will not read it unless it’s easier to read.
You seem to be tortured by other communities…
You won’t be judged here…
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I don’t know if you know EMDR therapy. It could help you; it’s the ideal therapy for anxiety disorders, like OCD.
Ostracized. Psychology states there are in groups and out groups everywhere. How they reprimand when they work in cohesion is up for debate based on how unsettling your information is to their repressed groupthink consciousness. I wouldn’t sweat it. I don’t fit in when it comes to a lot of things because I overanalyze situations until people get sick of me. I’m more laid back now that I’m older and don’t care about everything. I’m borderline indifferent when it comes to everything. OCD, my mom has it. She gets intrusive thoughts but never acts on them. They give her immense guilt. She can worry in the form of repetitious speaking rituals guided at driving the sane insane till infinity. As a kid she drove me nuts. I feel more compassionate toward her situation as an adult. I guess you could say I’m a compassionate indifferent ■■■■■■■. Welcome to the forum.
I’ve had OCD for 11 years and never acted on any intrusive thoughts.
Can I give you a helpful hint? Break up your text into paragraphs. More people will read it if it isn’t just a wall of text. I had to be told the same thing years ago when I first started writing on this forum. I read most of it but I’ve never had OCD and I don’t know much about it. Other people on here have OCD so you might get some responses from them. Good luck.
ive had ocd for 21 years and never acted on any until i was pushed into an extremely mentally stressful situation predated with years of grooming and gaslighting. eventually it got exhausting hearing those insane thoughts so either i did something equally insane to stop it, or just gave into the thought because at least then my brain wouldnt continue if i gave myself this extreme exposure therapy. i rly hope u never get to that point if u ever see warning signs make sure to catch them early. I suppose my case is unique in the fact of severity though, as the circumstances of my childhood plus my mental made me completely mute for many years from the sheer overwhelming anxieties of doing literally anything. So from that my best advice is to stay around the right ppl in the right enviorment
im getting to that slowly i think, im not old enough yet and the stimulants im on make me want to fight everything all the time basically but i feel like ill find my way and be more indifferent. im sorry to hear of your mom, i had people like that in my family too but theyre all gone now for either suicidal or homicidal reasons. But thanks for welcoming me!
thank you for the recommendation! ill look into it
I have ocd for to much time. Was thinking of getting a mri.. should i do it? My symptoms of ocd is a positive. I have also seen shadows and stuff. sometimes outside.
You have that entirely backwards. There are incredible supports for ASD3 where I live. If you’re ASD1 you get thoughts and prayers. Maybe.
where do you live might i ask? i was more so talking about online in this discussion as i meant visibility like those popular tiktok creators and support like those same high functioning people having their own communities where they shun the lower functioning for being too “weird”. ik in real life medical situations its kinda the opposite
I generally don’t bother with that stuff as it’s mostly fake of they’re pushing whacky stuff that will make people sick (e.g. the “keto cured” SZ lady on YouTube, for example, is one of the bigger frauds I can think of). I can tell you that one of the largest autism communities on the Net is heavily biased toward supporting lower functioning members to the point where they allow their ongoing poor behaviour to drive away higher-functioning members.
In terms of community support where I live in Western Canada there is not enough for people with low-functioning autism and the competition for it is fierce. There is zero support for those who are higher functioning and able to work, but might need help here or there.
ah i see, we live in different countries, that is frustrating indeed that they exclude people who need help. my perspective of somebody who isnt autistic who just occasionally comes across a popular post online, the stuff thats being shown to me is from those popular creators a lot which have the sentiment that autism is a superpower/there’s nothing wrong with it which while yes its true to be uplifting they also started rejecting anybody who isnt perfectly quirky or showns signs of the actual condition and since autism runs in my family i hear my family members having experiences with being cast out and stuff