I have ocd but i was never diagnosed as a child. is this normal?

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As long as I can remember, I pretty much always had OCD. I had different rituals and everything. In fact, when I was about 8 years old or so and had to get into my pajamas, It took me about 10 minutes because I had to put them on, take them off, put them on, take them off, etc until it felt 'right' and if I stopped in the middle of it, my brain would tell me that someone would get seriously hurt if I didn't finish it.

Now, I don't do the pajamas bit anymore, but I do hundreds of different things things that I have to do until they feel 'right' or things I have to do otherwise someone will get hurt or die. It's really sad and it does effect my life, but according to certain online websites which may be unreliable, If I don't feel depressed from it, it isn't bad OCD. I don't really agree with this because to me, it's pretty darn bad.

Why was I not diagnosed as a child? I do some things in public like touching things twice, but never more than twice in public unless I'm super paranoid or something, but when I was little, I had to turn on and off the light about 4 times in front of anyone. Why did they not see this as OCD? I'm embarrassed to tell anyone I have this.

I think I was misdiagnosed because I when I was little, doctors said I had ADD, but I still don't understand why. I looked up ADD symptoms and I have none. One symptom is a problem concentrating and I do have that because whenever I read something, I have to read it twice, so it does give me a problem concentrating, but isn't that a trait of OCD not ADD? Because I mean if I have to read an entire paragraph, I will have to REREAD it twice otherwise it won't feel right or someone might die.

What do you think about all of this?

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  • cgirl123456
    14 years ago

    My friend's parents almost missed it in her.

    the only reason her mom knew is that her mom saw a video about OCD that they showed in their school. Up until that point, her mom thought that her daughter had a lot of weird habits.

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  • mtnw
    14 years ago

    you could be right. have it checked out.

    i saw an example somewhere, that explains things well. see if you can picture this. imagine an arch, somewhat like a long wide rainbow. each end of the rainbow is the extreme diagnosis. the middle of the rainbow is the "no diagnosis" area. we are all just somewhere on that rainbow. maybe we all have some degree of everything.

    if you feel that it is making your life hard, then maybe it's time for a followup.

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  • RomeoDeMontague
    10 years ago

    I think I am OCD. I was diagnoised with 100 things I never had though. I think most people just dont care about OCD enough to make it known. They focus on made up bull shit like ADD since ADD/ADHD will be easier to misdiagnose therefor gets more money.

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