Do I have OCD or mild hypochondriasis?

Postby doihaveocd » Fri Oct 07, 2016 3:54 pm

Hello,

I am 19 years old and I watched a lot of pornography over the summer and I feel that gave rice to sexually intrusive thoughts about family, strangers, etc. For a lot of days I felt anxious over these thoughts, but I am now settled as I realized that these thoughts were meaningless. Basically, I was able to push myself out of the anxiety. Moreover, when I had these thoughts and anxiety, my life was not impacted at all as I was still doing whatever I was doing before the thoughts and it wasn't impacting my life negatively. However, there was some slight distress associated to those thoughts. 6 years ago, as a 13 year old, I had a similar bout of intrusive thoughts and anxiety following some intense hardcore porn viewing, but that also subsided on its own, and it never bothered me. I recently googled intrusive thoughts and I found out it is OCD. But I took the Yale-Brown OCD test online and it said my score was 4 or 5 - i.e. little or no OCD. So my question is, dear forum members, do you think I am someone that is just by nature a little obsessive or do you think I have OCD and I need to go see a therapist? The reason I am asking for help here is because getting a therapist in my country is a big investment and I want to know if I really need one.
Moreover, my father has hypochondriasis, and so I am wondering if all of this thinking that I have OCD is a hypochondriasis symptom - last year I was obsessed with the thought that I may be going bald when I was not.

So, do you think I have OCD?
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Postby doihaveocd » Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:26 pm

bump... anyone?
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Postby doihaveocd » Sun Oct 09, 2016 12:55 am

anyone at all?
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Postby doihaveocd » Mon Oct 10, 2016 8:00 pm

Further updates:

I read about this guy masturbating to his own mother and that freaked me out. I started getting mental images about me masturbating to a picture of my mom - thought it is something that I have never done and something that I don't wish to do.
For the first few days, it caused anxiety but after that even though I kept reminding myself of the thought I didn't have too much anxiety at all. And sometimes I even laughed at that thought. But the thought itself has been with me for a month now and it is primarily because I keep reminding myself of it. But it doesn't stop me from masturbating to porn or other such sexually enticing stuff. Moreover, this stuff has not impacted my life whatsover.
Can someone please tell me if this is till Pure O? I really need some answers here...please please please
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Postby lunatcy » Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:10 pm

Anxiety is caused by a tired body and mind, weird and scary thoughts are often a result of that. I would say, try not to pay these thoughts any respect, reckognize them for what they really are , a product of a tired mind, and move on. Pay them no respect. If you end up worrying about them, you will add an unnesessary load to your already anxious state, and end up in a circle in whitch you worry about that you worry that you worry. Just like you would rest a broken leg and it heals itself, give your mind the space it needs to heal. Just pay it no respect. Dont try to stop these thoughts,let them flow , but dont respect them. If you give your mind a little bit of rest and dont cling to your anxiety , you will notice it will slowly leave.
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Postby doihaveocd » Tue Oct 11, 2016 1:00 pm

Is it ocd though?
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Postby JaydonP10 » Tue May 02, 2017 12:02 am

Do you still have these thoughts? I'm going through the same exact thing.
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