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Hey drac31! Thankyou! Greatly appreciated! Ah I'm glad you can relate to me, not so that you've had to experience it too. Not as such, I think it's more because I don't want it to spread around. And the feeling I get on me is damn awful too. I sure do, Mmhmm. Nope (thank goodness). The job helps in all honesty, because I'm busy therefore my mind is occupied and doesn't have time to think about the contamination/OCD thoughts etc if that makes sense. Thankyou so much! You come across as a very nice person! OCD is just bleh! Why does it have to exist :/

No worries. I'm sure you will! You're very determined! Really? It was a very hard step to make but it's starting to become worthwhile now. Ah well that doesn't help then, hope that things continue to improve for you though. Unfortunately that's true, life just becomes anxiety, that's all. No people always joke about it and just urgh! Yeah me too, not sure how to make people aware though :/ Agreed! If they had to live with it, they would feeling completely different about it! Yeah I can understand that, OCD makes us all do strange things to make our lives liveable really. So I can see why you do that. Thankyou, well I wouldn't say I excel but thanks Oh it sure is! Doesn't allow my brain to go into full blown anxiety mode, which is good. Aww Thankyou, thanks again. Hopefully they'll listen. Ah damn, that sucks! It's a shame when people give out wrong advice. May I ask what you saw? Thats the reason why I left tbh, people were just getting arsey with me and started abusing and making fun of me. So I left to end that. Indeed!

Hi lostinme, Thankyou Aw it's ok, it is terrible for sure but it's good that you can relate to me. Not so good that you're experiencing it too. Oh wow that sounds awful! Genuinely awful! But I do understand what you're going through and why you do that. It does sound very similar to mine. I feel for you. Aw that's so great to hear! It's great that you're making an improvement! I have: I've seen 3 CBT therapists (currently on my 3rd as the first two made me worse :/) and I'm on medication too.

Aw well I still wish you were free from it. Yeah I get what you mean there, seeking external help is a huge step. Takes a lot of courage to do it. Ah well that's not ideal either, sorry about the side effects. Yup, me too! Agreed 100% It changes people's lives dramatically and some can't shake it either. Yup unfortunately they do, the humour one just makes me feel sick! I don't know how people can do that! The good thing is, at work (I work in construction, office based) we are refurbishing a NHS Psychiatric unit. Now this has shocked people at how much detail there is and how much thought needs to be taken into making sure everything is perfect and safe for the patients. None of this shocked me and I'm not 100% convinced on some of the stiff either (will raise my concerns). No worries Indeed. Yeah, tbh the other forum was doing more harm than good to my Mental Health. So I pulled the plug on it. Oh we sure can! Thankyou very much So far I'm very impressed by what I've seen!

When you think about it, 1 in 6 people is a high number to be suffering with mental illnesses. Yet as you say, health services just aren't upping their game. People often feel they have something going on but don't know what it is. This is also down to a lack of awareness for mental illnesses. Especially OCD. OCD is often joked about and it is infuriating because I bet they don't know the full extent of what it's truely like! I think health services *cough* NHS *cough* need to publicise MH issues and make people aware of how serious they truely are. There's just not enough recognition nowadays.

Hey Pepper, Im really sorry to hear that it's made your thoughts worse. That's never good to experience. I would reccomend seeing your doctor again and requesting a change of medication. Make sure to tell them everything that's happened so far on the current ones. I myself haven't taken Fluoxetine before (I've been on Citalopram and am now on Sertraline). So I can't say how long it takes, but for both of mine it was roughly 2-3 weeks before they started to reduce the effects of the OCD. Hope this helps.

Aww Ah damn, OCD is never nice but to experience it for that long must be just awful. Aww Glad you agree. The understanding of it does help a lot. Unfortunately lots of people don't seem to realize how serious it actually is. They just joke about it constantly No worries! Just being myself, you're even kinder than me Aww Thankyou I do hope to stick around. I've just left another forum (a student one) and am looking for new ones. I felt I should join one specifically about OCD as that affects my life 24/7. So here I am.

You're so kind already! No no feel free Aww that's so good to hear! I'm so glad this site has helped you out, that just shows how amazing the people are here then. Im glad I found it too tbh.

Thankyou for this. Greatly appreciated. Ah damn, sorry to hear that (glad you're feeling better than before) It's nice to know that people can relate, not so nice that others are having to experience it. Thankyou

Heya ashipinharbor, Thankyou. Aw it's ok. I sure hope so It seems a lovely place so far so I'll take your word for it. It's always helpful to be around people with those traits you mentioned. Aww Thankyou, I hope so too.

Hey everyone, I stumbled upon this forum and decided I would sign up, so I did. I suffer from severe Anxiety/OCD, I say both as they're merged together into one horrible condition. Whenever I touch something, I get a physical feeling on me like there's something on me. However I can't see it and the only way to remove it is to wash that area of my body. If I don't wash and then touch something else, the thing I touched will then give me this feeling too. So it spreads around and has not gotten out of control. I am receiving private therapy currently but the progress is slow. Now tonight has been really bad for me. Sometimes I can't remove the feeling no matter how much I wash. Tonight is one of those nights. Now tonight has been really bad. I'm affected by cleanliness and thoughts and after my shower today I just don't feel comfortable at all! Me feet are the worst problem. I'm currently laying in bed with a towel wrapped around them to stop this feeling from spreading onto my duvet. This may not sound like much of an issue but it is to me. It's also bringing back the thoughts/memories of when I was bullied at college for 6 months. I have a feeling on me that it's the germs from one of the bullies on me and it's highly distressing! So yeah that's a short intro to my condition and how I'm feeling currently.