Saturday, November 12, 2011
Is this some sort of OCD?
I was diagnose with ocd 14 years ago. There are different areas of ocd. I think they call it a rainbow of obsessive behavior. Like contamination issues, magical thinking, the impulse to touch something or count something. it sounds to me like you MIGHT have a problem with the kind called "checking". for instance I would lock my front door walk away and then have to come back to the door to check again. and then I'd drive down the road a bit and then decide that maybe I had accidently unlocked the door when I checked it by shaking it lose. and I did check the appliances as long as I had to come back I would come inside and check things like that. I just wondered when this checking started? do you remember if something happened to make you feel unsafe? something that happened to you that would make you worry about it happening again? or maybe you saw something on tv or something happened to someone you know and that's when it started? If these things you do are getting in the way of your everyday life, if you panic if you can't check these things like you do, and you feel that you are being 'forced' by your own mind to do them, it MIGHT be ocd. the good news is the sooner you get help the better you will be and the sooner you'll feel calmer. so much is known about ocd these days that there is meds and therapy to make things A LOT better. when I was going through my stuff , most medical doctors had never heard of ocd. and even some psychiatrist didn't really know much. but there has been meds that you can take and even just therapy if you're not too bad. the sooner you get help though the better. then you won't have the 'habits' of checking so ingrained into your mind.
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