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Is this REALLY ocd?

Okay, so I think I mentioned this in one of my first posts, but I have had plenty of pure o thoughts like fearing I'm pregnant even though I've never even done as much as kiss a boy (also when I'm literally on my period), I've feared getting/having parasites, I've thought I was legitimately schizophrenic even though I wasn't, HOCD, and a lot more, but at times there were periods in which nothing seemed to be bothering me.. I just recently got over HOCD (maybe) after a little over a year of stressing out about it. However a couple days  ago I started freaking out about being/getting addicted to things but now it feels like everything has just stopped. And you're probably wondering "why would that be a bad thing?" Well now I'm a little unsure about all of this.

Is this normal? To go like a year freaking out about something (and sometimes multiple things at once) and then it feels like it just stopped? Like literally out of nowhere?

Though I admit sometimes I still repeat to myself "I'm not gay" and "I don't want that" like I used but hardly ever as much. And I can recall that a year ago around this same time it was a living hell and it now it's like nothing ever happened and I guess I'm just confused.

I'm just curious to know if this is normal?
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1699033 tn?1514113133
Yes.  When you are able to take the fear away from the thought, it will go away.  Sometimes something else replaces it or nothing does.  I was off medication for many years and although I wasn't OCD free I was managing it.  Stress has a lot to do with it also.  For me increases stress leads to increased OCD thought and then on to anxiety.  
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