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[TomFed]

Hi guys. First symptoms of OCD started when I was a kid, basically this disease has been with me as long as I have memories of myself. Got quite severe in my early teenage years, but I never received any treatment. I had a variety of different types of OCD throughout the years (now I am 34), in the past 10 years I guess most of it would count for pure OCD, as I mostly don't have compulsions anymore (just some mental). What I still have are occasional obsessions that keep coming back from time to time. I never did therapy, never took meditation, all my struggle basically was going out to the world, lots of travel, challenging my fears... Later on, when I started reading more about OCD from clinical perspective, I found out that the ways I came up with trying to deal with this disorder, one could call street smart diy ERP I wish I had met some specialist who could have helped me when this all started some 20-25 years ago, would have saved me lots of time and the hell of the suffering that OCD brings on board, but well it was pretty much impossible at that time and it is how it is anyway.

I am still healing and I hope sharing with people who have been dealing with the same f'd up disorder will help me and you. My hope is one day we will be free from our obsessive minds. Open to talk to anybody who have or had OCD. Shoot me with email first - [e-mail] . If you real, we can have a chat on other platforms later. Peace!

[aparente001]

Welcome! Perhaps a good way to start is by reading and responding to others' posts.

I think that the medical community's understanding of OCD has improved enormously over the time span you mentioned.