How to get over ocd , OCD,(obsessive compulsive disorder)?

Im 15 and have had ocd (obsessive compulsive disorder) ever since i was in the 3rd grade. I thought i was over it about 1 year ago. But it came back twice as worse before. I cant go a single day without thinking about bad things happening, or touch things evenly, or even count cracks in the school hallway. I hate being like this , but something really bad i hate is my phobia of like germs like sick people and getting sick. I constantly wash my hand and if someone sneezes i like cover my mouth so i don't breathe it in. I try to talk about this with my friends and family but they think i am mental but im really not, and my mom wont help me out with this problem. I know its sounds like i am a freak but, I was wandering if there is other help besides therapy and stuff like online sites or something were it can help. Please some one with anything ?

I have OCD, too. I've learned that everyone seems to have at least some 'form' of it. That 'form' may not be diagnosed by a doctor because it's too light to really diagnose. But everyone has their little quirks and irritating things about themself, that drives their own self crazy dealing with it. :-)

I tend to 'count' things sometimes...I tend to read words backwards (to 'undo' reading them normally, of course). I check things like 20 times sometimes...even though the second time was enough, I wanted a "surety" that my mind never really accepts, no matter how many times I check something to make sure it is how I want it to be (an object, etc.) Sometimes I've felt the need to 'undo' touching something. Meaning if I touch something...I feel like "something bad will happen" if I don't 'undo' it and touch it again in the *exact* same spot. To coincide with that...in my mind, I usually imagine 'patterns' that I am 'undoing' in the process of touching something the second time, in the exact same spot. Sitting down in a chair...I feel that I 'have' to get up and leave from the chair in the same direction that I sat down in it (such as approaching from the left and sitting down...I feel the need to get back up and go left, as opposed to going right and around the chair)...various weird stuff like that.

OCD is just a really crazy thing. The OCD in itself is just a name that man has come up with to describe this condition, because it is indeed obsessive and compulsive. I don't have a 'cure' answer for it. But do know that because you don't 'undo' something...NOTHING bad will happen because of it. It's just a stupid thought...a stupid superstition, basically. That's the best way to break free, in my opinion...develope a 'don't care' attitude about re-touching things. Tell yourself that it's senseless to 'undo' it and touch it again, and ignore the feelings to do so. Ignore the feeling to count something...hurry on by it, and don't give it attention. It might feel funny, but eventually you get out of the habit.

Nothing wrong with disliking germs. Nothing wrong with washing your hands a lot...some people don't do it enough, and they are sick all of the time. Covering your mouth when someone sneezes...especially if they are just openly and inconsiderately sneezing out into the air, is a good thing.

People that do not struggle with it (or that do struggle with it and don't/can't realize it for whatever reason) have trouble talking to you about it, and don't understand it.

There are some medicines that are 'supposed' to help with it. Frankly...I think you could really mess yourself up if you go to a doctor and they play 'guinea pig' with you and test new 'breathrough' medicines on you to see how it works - that is, IF it works. The side effects of most medicines nowadays are just horrible...they outweigh the problem people take the medicine for, to begin with.

I have super bad O.C.D. too, and I'm afraid of germs so I got Skin Wear, which is a hand sanitizer that lasts up to 8 hours. So far it's been helping me from washing my hands a lot. Report It

Ok well you can go to kidshealth.com and search for obsessive compulsive disorder and no you are not mental, do not worry i kinda have that problem but not that severe but naywayz on the website that is wherer you can view resolutions to help you and stories fomr people who have had it and i hipe it helps sorry about your family and u are not mental

There are medicines which will help with that.

Other than that, try inhaling through your nose and exhaling through your mouth. This will assist in the cooling of the part of the brain that is involved in this disorder.

Cognitive behavioral therapy with or without medications is the only true way to manage this illness. Unfortunately, it is not something that just goes away. You are not "mental" but there is an imbalance in the brain that causes this, you can't just wish it away.