‘OCD’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 18

Q: I am a 17-year-old boy with OCD. I am in my junior year of high school and lately I have been experiencing almost constant intrusive thoughts about ripping my eyes out. Please help me. I feel slightly compelled to carry this action out even though it terrifies me and I don’t want to. What [...]

Q: I will spend hours daily going over my legs with tweezers searching for any hairs I can pluck (including ingrowns). I examine the hairs I pull and feel disappointment when there is no “root” or bulb at the end. It may sound sick, but I stick the hairs to a piece of paper organised [...]

Q: This is weird for me, but probably not for you. This has never happened to me before in my life, but for the last few months I get a few lines from a song stuck in my head and I can’t get it out. It’s CONSTANT and driving me nuts! If I’m not actually [...]

Q: I have a really nasty problem. I’m unable to handle complex ideas. For example: I can’t handle the fact that the Universe might be infinite, never ending. When I think about it for some reason I can’t accept it and it usually results in a panic attack. Or I will try to think of [...]

Q: I’m a 17-year-old male. I recently went on a month-long school excursion to Vietnam in early January. I had so much fun, it was the best month of my life. Almost as I soon as I returned I felt different.
Symptoms:

Detached from my surroundings. Things kind of looked different — very difficult to explain. [...]