OCD anyone?

I have OCD and i am having some major troubles dealing with it. It somply wont go away. Is there anyone else with OCD who can talk to me? i think i need to. Is there anyone here who has been cured of OCD

what is your ocd. mine varies. the main one at the moment is that i have to check food all the time, coz i think its poisoned or somethin. its very time consuming and stressful but im managing the ocd now. The only advice is and trust me it works is to face it head on. ocd started when i was 8, i had to wash my hands all the time coz i thought i might catch a disease and die. livin in a city there were a lot of rats and even by breathin where they were i thought i was going to die. when i came in from playin i would wash my hands over and over again . i used to cry coz i was to scared they wasnt clean enough, which then effected my eating. it lasted till just recently when i started an animal care course at college and im doin my work experience in a pet shop that involves touching animal faeces and urine. So i took deep breaths and now insted of washin my hands 29 times and gettin stressed, i now just wash them once after touchin rat pooh and i can eat a sandwich after, it dos ent bother me no more coz i touched all types or animal faeces and it has not hurt me. ocd is natural, we wouldnt survive with out takin the correct cautions, its when we let it get out of control, it becomes a problem . put youself in the firing line and take it head on

The name OCD suggests that it is a seperate 'disorder' to anxiety disorder... it's not! Think about it, OCD makes you obsess about something, why is that any different to anxiety? It's just the subject matter that's different. OCD cannot exist without inappropriate anxiety... if you didn't experience the anxiety, you wouldn't be frightened of not carrying out your compulsions. Anxiety fuels OCD and our research and experience with tens of thousands of sufferers has clearly shown that if you remove the underlying anxiety, the obsessive HABIT disappears. I did it myself, it works every time.

So, don't treat the OCD, which is a SYMPTOM of an anxiety disorder, treat the cause, the anxiety itself!

Charles

hi, i too suffer from ocd. i hate it. im currently going thru councelling and just as i think im over it, the images change and i again end up feeling like crap. im trying so hard to complete my degree at uni at the same time, and i know that more times than not, i cant concentrate coz these things are swishing round in my head all the time. i dont know what anyone else is like on here, but i find it very difficult to talk to people bout exactly what i am going thru, my teachers think i just cant be arsed, my boyfriend thinks ive gone off him and my mates think i am moody, but what can i say?? to be honest, my way of coping is to have a drink at the moment, its the only effective way i can find to stop me thinking as i do, particularly at night, i dont consider myself and alcoholic or anythin, im just self medicating to get me throu my final 4 months of uni otherwise ill end up leaving and i would have wasted even more of my life........sorry if i sound really morbid, sometimes its just nice to get it off my chest to a computer!! :(

Hi,
yes I have been cured. when I treated as any other symptom. I stopped paying attention. I let the thoughts just pass through me.\