This is my first time in a support group setting and I'm happy that I have found it online. I'm a new mother and have not found the time to connect with a support group in my community, plus I'm pretty shy in person so I was a bit fearful to look any further into support networks. I'm hoping that I will be able to connect with others who are also dealing with similar OCD symptoms as I am and we can support each other through it. :)Anxiety 1: (I have many, but I thought I'd start with this)I've had OCD for over 4 years now. It started shortly after I first got engaged to my husband. Someone else's hat was placed on my head for fun and from that one simple incident, it became the trigger of years of snowballed anxiety. I because fearful of lice and because I was planning a wedding and also undergoing other work/family stress, I became more and more fearful of getting lice. At first I thought this was just my brains way of telling me that I'm overworking myself and that it would go away after the wedding… I was terribly wrong. This lice anxiety got even worse. I kept my jacket away from my family's in our house, I'd spray everything with a tea tree oil solution (supposed to prevent lice from wanting to be near you), wash my sheets if I touched it or thought I touched it with my work clothes, kept my hair tied up and sprayed it with a lot of hair spray, wouldn't drive my car after I came home from work unless I sprayed it or vacuumed the seats and if I did I would have to take a shower, washed my hair with tea tree oil, avoided hugs from people even my friends, got my mom to check my hair for lice everyday, avoided trying on new clothes or even touching them, avoided movie theatres, had to shower after I put in a load of dirty laundry, and the list goes on and on…This all happened less than a year since the trigger. It got so bad that I was miserable all the time and didn't want to be around people. I even avoided spending time with my fiancé (husband now). A friend of mine found me a counselling centre that was faith based, which was great because I seemed to have lost my faith during this time. I didn't understand why I was feeling this way and I couldn't stop the constant worrying in my head. What seems to be just worrying and anxiety slowly morphed into full blown OCD….not just about lice, but what I said to people, fear of blood, and fear of poop…its overwhelming..