OCD in Childhood

[startrekfan1]

As much as I can remember, I had OCD in my childhood.

I was a picky eater, I was trying to control what my family said, I got my family involved with my pretend time.

I think my OCD affected me in school a lot too. I am generally a good student. But my OCD makes me get a somewhat superiority complex. I felt like the homework and schoolwork was beneath me in someway and I refused to do it. Later, I would sometimes do the work, but try to control when I turned it all in, if I turned it in at all. As such, my scholastic career is somewhat muddled. I think I was just trying to control how I progressed, something the public school system somewhat frowns upon.

But make no mistake, I am a very intelligent person. I wish I could tell my past self about all of this. Maybe could have saved myself a lot of heartache.

Does any of this ring a bell for anyone?

 

[Dogperson]

Yes, my OCD also started in childhood. It worsened significantly at puberty but I definitely had it in childhood. My particular obsessions were different but the feeling of needing to control things sounds familiar. It affected my schoolwork too. I was really bored with it & tried to keep from doing it at all. They put me in the gifted class because supposedly my IQ tested at 151 but I didn't find it any more challenging. A therapist I used to see told me that people who suffer with OCD usually have above average intelligence & that's probably true. It seems to be an overactive area of the mind in people who are fairly intelligent.

 

[startrekfan1]

Yes, my OCD also started in childhood. It worsened significantly at puberty but I definitely had it in childhood. My particular obsessions were different but the feeling of needing to control things sounds familiar. It affected my schoolwork too. I was really bored with it & tried to keep from doing it at all. They put me in the gifted class because supposedly my IQ tested at 151 but I didn't find it any more challenging. A therapist I used to see told me that people who suffer with OCD usually have above average intelligence & that's probably true. It seems to be an overactive area of the mind in people who are fairly intelligent.

It's nice to know that I'm not alone out there. I just don't know how to move forward now. Is my whole life centered around this disease? Am I actually a person or just one compulsion after the next?

 

[HopingForJesus]

I was horribly anxious. I started having religious related OCD thoughts when I was only five years old and again when I was 10. I also remember having high anxiety my whole life in school, wanting everything to be perfect. I was a very emotionally, high strung OCDish child. One time I had a ocd bout of trying to swallow my tongue, and another time was pulling out my hair so much I left a bald spot. So, I think I have had it my whole darn life.

 

[shelovesChrist]

It's nice to know that I'm not alone out there.

I know. There are days and moments when I'm down then I remember you all and get encouraged again. That I'm not the only one continuing toward Christ with this.

I just don't know how to move forward now. Is my whole life centered around this disease? Am I actually a person or just one compulsion after the next?

Sometimes I feel all over the place too. But we should always pray and give our burdens to the Lord and have faith that He will come through, for He is greater than us and has never failed. Praying for you . and this whole forum as always. And I don't believe that God made you just because, you have a purpose too, we all do, and we shouldn't let this thorn stop us --although it may seem like is it--from doing the best we can and giving it all we got while we are still here.

 

[startrekfan1]

Another of my problems I guess is that I skirt things a lot.

If something is not a problem, I don't worry to much. After all, I have got enough problems in my life. If something is not my problem, I sort of treat it with apathy.

But when something becomes or evolves into one of my problems, get out of my way. I don't know if this is because I am lazy/selfish or if it is another of my OCD related problems.

Does anyone else out there do this???

 

[startrekfan1]

Yes, my OCD also started in childhood. It worsened significantly at puberty but I definitely had it in childhood. My particular obsessions were different but the feeling of needing to control things sounds familiar. It affected my schoolwork too. I was really bored with it & tried to keep from doing it at all. They put me in the gifted class because supposedly my IQ tested at 151 but I didn't find it any more challenging. A therapist I used to see told me that people who suffer with OCD usually have above average intelligence & that's probably true. It seems to be an overactive area of the mind in people who are fairly intelligent.

Maybe we didn't do it because we doubted ourselves or our abilities, but masked it with confidence and planning.

Sound familiar?