I had washed my hands to the point of having a two inch long area have severe rug burn. My therapist referred to my behavior as compulsive which was the first time he did that. I asked what the difference was between what I had and something diagnosable. He said “a diagnosis”

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I was obsessing over a friend severely (ROCD) and it was so bad that I was very depressed whenever I wasn’t actively talking to them. I was planning my whole days around talking to them, to the point in which I stopped doing the things I enjoyed. My therapist brought up OCD, and then I went to my psychiatrist to get diagnosed. There’s a lot more to what I experienced, but I was diagnosed on the spot

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I was obsessing over numbers- I wouldn’t rest until I found a combination that equaled 11 because 1-1=0 but 2-2 wasn’t okay etc it had to be 11. I couldn’t look at clocks without doing the math, license plates made it impossible to sit in a car because every letter correlated with a number 1-26. It made me incredible at math but I would have panic attacks if I couldn’t make the numbers work

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