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12-12-2007, 11:05 AM
Since dealing with OCD for 2 1/2 years now, I've learned a lot and have taken notes about my own experiences with OCD. I think a lot of you can relate to the nature of my own OCD...
- Whenever I get a new obsession, I wish I had the old obsession back, because "that was so much easier to deal with!" The current obsession always seems like the worst one.
- Some people's OCD is constant (mine was constant for almost a year), others are cyclical. Mine is currently cyclical...meaning I can be in "remission" or without any OCD symptoms for months on end, and then something will trip me up and I fall back into obsessing. When I am not obsessing, I can't figure out why I was ever bothered by my obsessions in the first place; when I am obsessing, I can't remember how I felt or what I thought/did when I wasn't obsessing. It's almost like being in a trance. Then, the trance lifts and I go back to normal life. The way I think when I'm obsessing versus the way I think when I'm not obsessing is like night and day.
- My three main obsessions (relationships, religion and myself/loved ones dying) all have the same themes, but every time they come back, they're slightly different and it makes me think it's NOT ODC. It was definitely OCD last time, but this time it's definitely not OCD and my real thoughts/feelings!
- Emotions seem to mean everything to the OCD sufferer. If I can't get the "right" feeling with a particular thought, it sets off my OCD.
Anyone have anything else to add about the nature of your OCD? I find that remembering that I have been here before, and that even though OCD may switch tones, it always has the same theme/feelings/pattern of thinking, helps remind myself that it really is OCD just trying to rear its ugly head again.
- Whenever I get a new obsession, I wish I had the old obsession back, because "that was so much easier to deal with!" The current obsession always seems like the worst one.
- Some people's OCD is constant (mine was constant for almost a year), others are cyclical. Mine is currently cyclical...meaning I can be in "remission" or without any OCD symptoms for months on end, and then something will trip me up and I fall back into obsessing. When I am not obsessing, I can't figure out why I was ever bothered by my obsessions in the first place; when I am obsessing, I can't remember how I felt or what I thought/did when I wasn't obsessing. It's almost like being in a trance. Then, the trance lifts and I go back to normal life. The way I think when I'm obsessing versus the way I think when I'm not obsessing is like night and day.
- My three main obsessions (relationships, religion and myself/loved ones dying) all have the same themes, but every time they come back, they're slightly different and it makes me think it's NOT ODC. It was definitely OCD last time, but this time it's definitely not OCD and my real thoughts/feelings!
- Emotions seem to mean everything to the OCD sufferer. If I can't get the "right" feeling with a particular thought, it sets off my OCD.
Anyone have anything else to add about the nature of your OCD? I find that remembering that I have been here before, and that even though OCD may switch tones, it always has the same theme/feelings/pattern of thinking, helps remind myself that it really is OCD just trying to rear its ugly head again.
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Christian73
12-12-2007, 10:44 PM
I don't have much to add to that, except to say that you're not alone and I deal with the same stuff.
kellogg
12-12-2007, 11:34 PM
EXACTLY! I could have written that post myself!
dksea
12-13-2007, 04:25 AM
- Whenever I get a new obsession, I wish I had the old obsession back, because "that was so much easier to deal with!" The current obsession always seems like the worst one.
Yes!!! I do this too!
Yes!!! I do this too!
thescappian
12-16-2007, 01:44 AM
LOL. That one made me crack up. I was just having that same thought earlier today. I remember at the time that the old obsessions were so crippling, but now I wish I could just get one of those back. . . .wait I am afraid to say that because maybe they will come back?!?!?!
jsph110
12-16-2007, 01:55 AM
cast your cares upon Him, because he cares for you.
He says, do not be anxious about anything, but in everthing with supplication and thanksgiving, let your requests be known to Him. And the peace of God which passes all understanding shall guard your mind.
He says, do not be anxious about anything, but in everthing with supplication and thanksgiving, let your requests be known to Him. And the peace of God which passes all understanding shall guard your mind.