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Your quoting debacle is fine ! All of my threads are so disorganized because I feel the need to reply to everybody lol. Thanks for all your support!

I think your threads are wonderful, and I adore how you respond to everyone. You are a very, very, special person and good friend, SSF. Thank you for all your support, as well!

And, if I may say, since we are on the subject, Ferris, you are quite a special person and good friend, and both of you have added so much pleasure to my experience, here/on WP. ~Thank you

I also feel the need to reply to everyone on one of my threads , IMO it would be rude not too. If I don't it's because I've missed it.

Thank you so much ! You are a great friend as well. You're welcome for the support; we're all in this together!

Thank you! Indeed, we are!

I have always noticed this about you, and it is an unusual and lovely character trait.

Thanks Britte , I'd put you in the same category.



Yep , I'm definitely unusual

^Indeed, you are! And thank goodness for that!

Thank you, Ferris.^

Er, what counts as "mild" "moderate" or "severe" exactly? It is based on the amount of time these behaviours take up/how disruptive they are to a person's life? I'm just curious. Most people in my life refer to me as OCD, but I don't have any sort of diagnosis. But right now I'm considering it as a strong possibility.

I realise that people these days tend to throw around the word OCD a lot, using it as an adjective to describe being organised. But personally I'm not even that organised, in fact I'm usually something of a disorganised klutz, but yeah some of my behaviours do take up a lot of time. I've been trying to curb them though recently.

In my case, severe OCD was being unable to distract or think about anything else, screaming and crying for hours every day because the obsessions were so strong, and having little insight and not attempting to stop or curb any of my compulsions. I had around probably 70-80 compulsions per day, and the obsessions were almost constant. It's a lot better now, and I would say I am mild-moderate, depending on the day. I would describe that as having obsessions that flair up quite often, being constantly worried but not panicking, and having around 50 compulsions per day (maybe that's not mild ). The YBOCS (Yale-Brown obsessive compulsive scale) is great for determining the "level" of OCD. Here's a link: http://www.seinstitute.com/wp-content/u ... cklist.pdf
Hope this helps

Thanks, that PDF was really informative. Based on that- it sounds like I would fit into the moderate category the most.

No problem!

Yeah, my scores are in the severe OCD range.

I voted "severe", as I have YBOCS-proven "severe" OCD in the past, but thanks to my Anafranil, I'd say my OCD is more "moderate" nowadays. I'm in a lot better of a place than I used to be even 10 years ago.

That's good. I'm not doing so well right now. What was severe OCD like for you? Did you have any other things besides the medication that helped?