Posts Tagged ‘OCD’

Q: I am a 27 year old female with OCD. My biggest problem is fear of anything to do with death: cemeteries, funeral homes, etc. It has gotten to the point where I get stressed out leaving the house and I won’t go to people’s homes for fear of them having an urn. I moved [...]

Q: I’ve always been curious about the classification of mental “illnesses.” I can understand why a condition would be termed an illness if it makes someone unstable enough to commit murder or cause other types of pain, but what about those situations of “abnormality” where the individual is happy? I was reading about “abnormal” personalities [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]