Olfactory Reference Syndrome - Ever heard of it?

Hi, all.

Part 1

My story begins in, well, as young as I can remember; I've always had anxiety. However, starting in ninth grade, after a small surgery, I began to smell odd things. I don't mean that I would go around sniffing things. I mean hallucinations...

For the first week or two, it was total confusion. I had no idea what was going on, and I figured that something must have gotten on my backpack. I didn't have enough insight at the time to realize that the smell was 24/7, and my backpack was only near me 6 hours a day. It was halfway through the second week that I started to think, "Maybe this is me. Maybe *I* smell." Everything went downhill from there.

My average anxiety level started near a 5 out of 10, but by the time a month had past, I developed full-fledged paranoia. I went to 13 different doctors, each one telling me the same thing: "You don't smell, and nothing is wrong with your -insert body part here-"

I had to go to school. Even on the worst days. I had to go, and it was torture. I could hear people whispering about my odor, but no one ever told me directly. Because, of course, it was a conspiracy (or so I thought).

If you want to hear more, let me know...

Thanks for making it this far