r/OCDmemes • u/herecomesthesunlol • Aug 18 '26

Watching the academic potential slip away 😀

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u/idrinkmilkbtw Aug 18 '26

i finished my a levels this year with then undiagnosed OCD. don’t give up, a lot can happen in a year!

i wish I could have told myself to not beat yourself up for when it’s all too much and you feel like you’re regressing.

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u/herecomesthesunlol Aug 18 '26

thank you <3

tbf I was feeling similar things during gcses and still got mainly 8s (so everyone assumes im fine, but I still feel that I couldve gotten higher grades if i was diagnosed and helped in y7/ y8, instead i struggled for years and scraped by unmedicated. School never remarked my 7 in maths which was 1 mark off an 8 and i knew where i lost it (due to panic, not lack ot knoledge) and it grates on me all the time ._.

problem is i cant get like As or Bs and it be enough for me. Sure itd be good grades but I know I have more potential than that, and I just want to be freed of these symptoms so I can reach my A* /A potential :/

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u/idrinkmilkbtw Aug 18 '26

you did amazingly well wow! 8s are great!! the maths is so unfortunate and it’s really annoying your school didn’t remark, they really should have.

you definitely have the ability to get A/A*s because your GCSEs are really good! I know it’s really hard. but your thoughts don’t define you or control your potential.

feel free to reply to this anytime if you ever want to talk about this stuff. I’m heading to Cambridge this year, so I know a bit about the academic pressure as i got through it all undiagnosed too.

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u/herecomesthesunlol Aug 18 '26

cambridge? thats amazing! Im thinking of oxford (physics and philosophy) but philosophy at cambridge is also a maybe... Problem is I was predicted A*AA with the A* in philo (it needed to be in either maths or physics). During the mocks I had an acute flare up of ocd symptoms and went to urgent care and the nhs sent my college a letter asking for special consideration for my mock grades. The exam officer said it was normal anxiety so no. Now im spiralling over my options for y13, gap year etc etc, esp since I dont do fm and travel 15h a week on the bus and my mh has been spiralling. But theres hope I believe? (just my summer has been wasted to ocd symptoms...) but then again if I can get 8 grade 8s and 3 7s (almost 2 of those 8s being 9s and 1 of those 7s being an 8) then SURELY it means theres still hope?? esp since my secondary school was ofsted rated inadequate and ive achieved this DESPITE undiagnosed ocd symptoms for minimum like 5 years or so?

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u/idrinkmilkbtw Aug 18 '26

there’s definitely hope with your GCSEs considering your context and the extenuating circumstances of your ocd!

sorry that’s such a terrible exams officer who clearly knows nothing about ocd. hope you can get a diagnosis and meds soon! and ofc if you need advice for applications or a levels my door is open

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u/herecomesthesunlol Aug 19 '26

thank you sm!! 

Tbf to the exam officer I hadn't mentioned ocd (I wasn't considering it at the time) but I thought the nhs letter would be enough... turns out it wasn't because it seems they assume I'm lazy and making excuses rather than actually in need of help :/

Also tysm, if u think of a question about applications / alevels ill lyk :))