I just want to take the time to ask people to stop calling other attention seeking. To get you fact's straight before you start any thing with people. Name calling is not fun nor is it something that us as adults should do.
There has been a fue time the the word's like attention seeker have been used in chat and i do not think it is nice nor fair that people assume this about anyone no matter what thay did or said.
if you want to start calling people attention seeker's look at your own behaviour befor you start throw word around at people. There are people her that have to had with being called attention seeker's all there life like me only to now find out after 28y thay may have OCD and not just anxiety. I'm sure you your self would hate to be called an attenstion seeker while you were in the middle of a panic attack your self. To call a person a attention seeker is not nice nor called for nor is helpfull to that person or the people who read it as it happening.
I have been called a attention seeker all my life due to my anxiety and posiable OCD just because I am different. When a OCD person get's anxiety thay dont just have to deal with the panic symptom thay also have to deal with the compulsion that go with it that there brain is telling then to do to releave the anxiety. Some OCD people rock or tap or count or cheak thing. Some time's the compulsion are more out there than the norm along with the compulsion is the word in you head that are telling you why you feel anxious and why you need to do what you do releave your feelingn of anxiety.
There is a huge difference between child hood onset OCD and later in life onset OCD. IF you have childhood onset OCD you dont alway know what thought are normal and what are not you have to learn this with life expreance like I did and it's not happy life to lead. When your alway's being told you doing things wrong or thinking wrong or seeking attenstion when inside deap down you really feel like you putting your all into being a good person.
As many as 1 in 100 kids are said to have OCD on some level. These kids dont alway know what it is about them that is different but just know thay are thay try to hide there issues out of fear that thay insane. Thay take far longer to get over OCD that any other anxiety issues. Set back are are far more likly and it's life long condition with ups and down unlike normal anxiety. Often childhood OCD has other co existing condiction that make it even harder to diagnoise and treat.
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00044239
(OCD affects nearly 1% of the pediatric population. The symptoms of this illness can interrupt development, causing significant psychological distress and producing life-long impairments in social, academic, and occupational functioning.)
How does it feel?
http://www.ocdcentre.com/pages/informed.htm
Individuals may feel some or all of the following:
* a seemingly constant stream of uncomfortable, irrational and often frightening thoughts/images or impulses which cause mild to acute distress
* a sense of fear, foreboding, uncertainty, guilt, doubt or anxiety in response to everyday objects, tasks, situations or people
* overriding guilt as a result of the possibility of harming or killing another person
* a compelling and insurmountable urge to carry out rituals or repetitive tasks in order to prevent the frightening image or thought actually happening
* to an individual without OCD, trying to resist the compulsions would feel like being in a taxi on the way to a long-haul flight knowing that you have left your empty home with the gas oven fully switched on, the iron plugged in and a lighted candle burning and unable to turn around and go back
* everyday tasks, for example, switching lights on and off or using the telephone, feel like insurmountable obstacles
* a state of constant alert and needing to scan one's environment in order to minimise risks
* a sense of life never being the same again
* feeling rooted to the spot by the in
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