We, my friends and I, have another friend who, we think fakes Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. We have known her for three years.She does not appear to have any obsessive counting, hand washing, checking things, or obsession with numbers, or any other common symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. She suffers from anxiety and often has to leave class because of this, though we are not sure if this is genuine. She found out about her "disorder" through watching a television programme and told us that she has since been diagnosed with a special case of OCD that only she has and thus nobody knows what to do with her.
Is it real, or is she faking it?
Also she suffers from extremely low confidence and does stupid things such as ditching us, her friends who honestly have tried everything to try to be there for her and support her, for hanging out with "cooler" people. When she's hanging around moshers, emos, rockers ect, she dresses up in expensive merch t-shirts when she mayn't even have heard the band. This is all, I feel, an attempt to look cool.
She uses past suicide attempts as a way of making her cooler and now we suspect she self-harms although she is not in any way depressed. She carries none of the symptoms and she is not that good of an actress, trust me.
In the past she may also have suffered from anorexia.
When she is in class, she claims that one or two of the girls in our class make her feel mentally and physically sick by being in their presence, and even blamed one of the girls, who is absolutely lovely, for her suicide attempts.
Your thoughts please??
We are not meddling. This girl used to be a close friend of mine and is still close with many of my friends.
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