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Ella
Member

Hi all,
Does anyone else have bad experiences at school concerning ocd? like, hand shaking, or having a book handed to you which you think is dirty? I would write more but I feel too depressed.

hate ocd.
ella.

Fri Dec 17 2010 22:40:25 #
bitofamess
Member

Hey ella;
yeah schools awful. it was bad for me beacause, being at boarding school and always trying to cover up my ocd, my hoarding got totally out of hand and tricky to deal with. also all the symmetry and stuff made contact with people really hard.
try not to feel too bad, i know the feeling, its awful, what i find helps is going out with friends or cinema or something to take your mind off it, even though all you want to do is curl up and die or sleep or whatever. dunno if it'll work for you, but its worth giving a try.
its nice for me knowing someone else has the same probs. actually no its horrible knowing someone else is in the hell i was/am in. i wouldn't wish it on anyone. apart from maybe hitler. but seriously i hate it too. its ruined my life and tried its very best to kill me. but i've had some happy times too, and hi try to think of them when i feel really shit: i know how hard it is and when you're in a really deep depression you can't think of anything happy, i sometimes wonder if j.k. rowling had some problems like depression or ocd or something because the dementors pretty much sum up feeling like this. sorry for the harry potter reference.
anyway PM me or something, i'm not entirely sure how this all works cos i only found it like a week ago, but get better soon.
Xxxx

Sun Dec 19 2010 1:08:18 #
Ella
Member

hi, thanks for the sympathy, and dont be sorry, i think the harry potter books are great!

thanks again,
ella x

Thu Jan 6 2011 13:40:19 #
Thay
Member

I hated having ocd at school, people used to tease me about it and my teachers didn't get it so misinterpretted what I was doing. I hate having ocd and school only made it worse.
Hope you're ok.

Fri Feb 4 2011 19:07:32 #
Truddles
Member

Hi Thay,

Welcome to the forum

Fri Feb 4 2011 19:10:45 #
Ella
Member

Hi all!
Thabks for the support, feel a bit better now, can't write too much, got a bunch of stuff to do!

Ella

Sat Feb 12 2011 21:40:26 #
wannabefree
Member

Hi Ella, Hi to you Thay too. I was thinking back to my days at school... Everything was grubby... And yet no one was ever physically ill... Well, not many anyway... If they had, the school would have been shut down. For myself, I try to tell myself that, if someone else has handled it, and it hasn't made them ill, then maybe it won't make me ill. I then pop it into my OCD thing to argue against my own thoughts that, If everyone else has resistance to the germs already, then I can't make them ill either... I'm almost making it that we actually get stronger by touching stuff, cos our bodies defences would get stronger too. A good thing, rather than bad.
That's the science, it's just being able to believe it I guess. My OCD makes me doubt myself too, but then remind myself that It is a disorder, and so maybe, just maybe, we're gonna be okay

Sun Feb 13 2011 13:17:07 #
Ella
Member

Thanks!

Thu Mar 3 2011 22:01:39 #
Joel
Key Master

Just to let you all know - our new OCD at School website is now up and running. To access it just go to the home page and click on the main banner.
Thank you
Joel

Mon Mar 7 2011 11:35:34 #
Ella
Member

Thanks Joel, I'll have a look a it
Ella

Mon Mar 14 2011 8:50:08 #
Ella
Member

Does anyone else have trouble making an account? I fill it all in, tick the box, fill in on the other side, click 'I agree' and it goes back to the same page, and I don't have an account, I have tried logging in but it won't work!

Ella

Mon Mar 14 2011 9:05:27 #
parent
Member

Hi Ella
Try using all lowercase and see if it makes a difference... if successful you will get a confirmation screen and an email.

Alternatively, if you send your email address to support@ocdaction.org.uk
we can set up an account for you.
Jyothi

Mon Mar 14 2011 15:07:28 #
Ella
Member

thanks, I will type all lowercase and see what happens!

Ella

Tue Mar 15 2011 15:36:52 #
Nimrod
Key Master

When you register successfully an email is sent to you giving a link to click on to activate your account. The email is automatically generated via the website and it may end up in your spam box depending on your anti-virus, firewall and spam settings - so check your spam box if you don't get the email in your in box.

Caps

Tue Mar 15 2011 20:20:04 #
Ella
Member

Thanks, I got an account, I didn't read the thing at the top of the screen and tried putting capitals and stuff I always do that!

Ella

Wed Mar 16 2011 11:01:44 #
Ella
Member

When Jyothi put that, I suddenly realised what I hads done!

Wed Mar 16 2011 11:03:11 #