*** I've had OCD since I was a little kid, I never knew it was OCD until I turned 19 and developed severe symptoms in the acute stage of Lyme (when I started feeling sick) *** My OCD was off-the-chart, I've had a lot of compulsions in 2004 - 2008 (I was unemployed in all that period and put on psychiatric treatment, as many other Lyme patients end up. OCD is form of anxiety, IMO it is a HUGE issue with Lyme Borreliosis so is depression. My compulsions sort of faded away in the past 4 years or so, but I still have OCD thoughts, related to germs, intrusive and disturbing unwanted thoughts. *** I also have had religious OCD thoughts but they went away as soon as I managed to understand that there is GOD without religion. *** My main thoughts revolve around my family - bad things that COULD happen to my family and so on ... they come and go and they're usually worst when I am tired, stressed or lacking sleep a lot. Alex Post edited by: evelinawill, at: 07/25/2012 11:46 PM Post edited by: evelinawill, at: 07/25/2012 11:47 PM I probably contracted Lyme Disease and other tick-borne co-infections when I was 4 or 5 when I found two ticks stuck on my right side of the neck. I went un-diagnosed until adulthood, developed severe symptoms suddenly at 19 and I struggle with them to this day.
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