Which Mental Disorder?

I frequently get unwanted or distressing thoughts and I have a hard time getting rid of them.

Unwanted or distressing thoughts are ideas, images, or urges that enter your mind without invitation and feel upsetting, frightening, or hard to dismiss. They do not necessarily reflect what you believe or want to do. Examples include: “What if I hurt someone?” “What if I made a terrible mistake?” “What if I offended them?” “What if I lose control?” or “What if something bad happens because I forgot something?” These thoughts may repeat even after you try to reassure yourself.

When I have disturbing thoughts, I worry that they reveal something true about me.

For example, you may get strange thoughts such as "What if I hurt someone?" or "What if I secretly don't love someone?" and then you excessively worry that these things are actually true.

Even with repeated instruction and practice, I have consistently struggled to understand basic numbers, quantities, or arithmetic concepts since childhood.

For example, you may still need to count on your fingers for simple sums, forget multiplication facts despite years of practice, confuse which operation to use, or struggle to judge which of two amounts is larger, even though you understand other school subjects well and have received plenty of help.

I frequently have difficulty judging which number or quantity is larger, smaller, or closer to another number without counting or calculating it first.


Example: Someone may struggle to quickly tell whether 47 or 74 is larger, estimate which pile has more objects, or understand where a number belongs on a number line.

I frequently manipulate other people.

For example, you may exaggerate, lie, guilt-trip, flatter, pressure, or withhold information to influence someone’s choices. You might act hurt so they give in, make promises you do not mean, or use their fears and insecurities to get money, attention, favors, sympathy, or control from them for your own benefit.

Real-life example: You want a friend to lend you money, so you falsely say nobody else cares about you and imply that refusing would prove they are a bad friend.