What's Your Analogy of What OCD Is? - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Message Board

fm5 · 10-08-2003, 10:40 AM

I think since this illness is so devastating for so many people, to laugh a little about it would be kind of different.

I was wondering what some others think this illness can be compared to or is similar to.

My analogy of ocd is that it feels like having an extortionist constantly warning me "if you don't do this, you will die"!!

I also feel since my ocd hit the "acute stage" a few years ago that I have been sort of thrown into a maze in the middle of the night. The maze is a couple miles long on all sides, and it has got all kinds of twists and turns and blockades in it, where I am trying to figure how to get out, and I am slowing getting out but by just inches each day.

Any of your thoughts of what it feels like to you?

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redbaron · 10-08-2003, 04:31 PM

To me it feels like I have some sort of computer in my head whose job it is to say "What If", and then give me the worst possible outcome for any given situation!

spaniellove · 10-08-2003, 05:26 PM

It's like looking into a pot of water and waiting for it to boil and thinking that somehow not looking at it will keep it from boiling.

hangtenvetter · 10-08-2003, 05:46 PM

Like a conscience that always finds you guilty no matter what you do to appease it.

Sanguine · 10-08-2003, 10:50 PM

1. Like Charlie Brown, certain that he'll finally get to kick the football, only to have Peppermint Patty pull it away at the last second every time.

2. Like a pair of chinese handcuffs (the harder you pull to get away, the tighter they get).

3. Like the carrot in front of the donkey.