A pure OCD support thread for adults or parents of children with pure O.

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Hello.

Just want to give virtual support to anyone suffering from Pure O. Its a not so recognised form of OCD but can be debilitating.

My DS has intrusive thoughts and obsessive worries that he cant get out of his head. I suffered the same when I was young and you never fully recover but I've learnt to deal with it so it doenst

Doesn't take over my life anymore. However, its a different thing trying to help your child. I'm trying my best but I'd love to find people going through the same thing with their children or indeed themselves. I'm looking for this to be a positive, proactive thread, helping and supporting each other, sharing tips and advice.

We are on the waiting list for camhs. We have had a session with a private OCD specialist, she advised me very much not to give in to talking to my ds about the thoughts, not to give them much energy, tell him that we will come back to it later and at a set time. But time but this has proved too difficult. My son was inconsolable and says he just wants to talk it all through so we have been but yesterday I spent a lot of the day reassuring, he couldn't focus on school work, yesterday evening we talked, his dad talked to him and still not relief from it all.

Sending love to anyone going through this.

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@dane8

Oh wow, I’m sure this is me(adult) It’s like one thought after another in a thread mill. I try to turn it round to positive and I don’t know if it’s because I don’t believe the other thought or not but I can go from positive to the thoughts going again within a few minutes I don’t know about you or your ds , but do you find it affect your mood and everyday tasks? Like you have to really try and it doesn’t come naturally?

I’m going to look up pure o again, I’ve seen some things on it
The thing is I also like to have the best of the best ie best counselling, cbt , psych
It’s like I’ve not found it, because I still have it!

Hi there.

OCD preys on people's worse fears and morals. For example a new mother may love her baby so much but she worries she may hurt her baby. A kind gentle person who would never hurt anyone may hide all the knives in the house for the feat that 'he could' pick them up. Someone may have a fear that they could crash into someone whilst they're driving so they start avoiding having to drive anywhere. Someone may see an article about sociopaths and worry that they may be one so constantly look for signs, scan the Internet for symptoms etc.. Of course none of these people are these things but they worry they could. They call it the doubting disease, it makes you question so many things.

Most people have thoughts that pop into their head and a 'normal' brain may think "that wasn't a nice thought, I'll move on from that" but an OCD brain will hold onto it, won't let it go and try and convince the person they are that thought.

Its exhausting isn't it. It sounds like your brain doesn't allow you to be free and will go from one subject to another. I know what you mean about things not feeling natural too. I think its hard to find the right person to help. Lots of councillors still don't understand pure O. I remember trying to get help once and they said to me "are you really tidy?" And I said no, not really and they said "no, tly probably don't have it then as people with ocd worry about tidiness" yes, some do but its not just about that.