I’ll go first: • Graphic intrusive images while I was eating or before bed

• Intrusive thoughts regarding my classmates / friends (imagining myself randomly kissing them, imagining them naked and feeling extremely disgusted and worried by my own thoughts)

• Worrying about people being able to read my thoughts in class and seeking reassurance by thinking “cough if you can hear my thoughts” and then being paranoid about people not coughing on purpose so that they could continue to read my thoughts and then panicking about them reading my intrusive thoughts and desperately trying to think of “innocent” stuff such as candy and puppies

• Collecting empty fountain pen fillings in my pencil case at school and refusing to throw them away

• Obsessive rumination around a guy I crushed on for 6 years in elementary school, literally feeling consumed by my obsession with him and not being able to think about anyone else

• An extreme fear of a natural disaster happening, to the point of crying

• Excessive and extreme worrying around my stomach growling in class and forcing myself to drink 1L of water during every break

• Following a very specific routine before school

• Throwing tantrums and feeling extremely anxious when said routines were disrupted

• Repeating sentences and words continuously in my head for days / hearing a sentence from a song or a TV program and having my brain repeat that in my head for days and not being able to make it stop

• Prayers getting disrupted by hearing profanity in my head and thinking my prayer was invalid and having to do it again

Some of these I still struggle with as an adult, but nowadays my OCD revolves around other stuff