college/OCD

[tagurit]

I post about this a lot but schoolwork and ocd is the major thing for me. I pretty much spend all my day studying and my ocd does not allow me to have any fun or do anything else besides study because I fear that I won’t retain the information, that I’ll be a bad student and although I understand something, my ocd convinced me that I don’t understand what I’m studying.

People tell me that school isn’t everything and I know that and people tell me that studying all day isn’t healthy. People say to study smart and I know that but people don’t realize that ocd doesn’t respond to logic. I know that it is important to branch out but my ocd doesn’t care.

Like my ocd doesn’t allow me to take any breaks because then I won’t retain info it’s. Frustrating cycle

My therapist wants me to reduce the amount of time studying and incorporate more fun things into my life, but then my OCD is like nooooo.

I've just been really stuck.

I feel like people don’t understand and this fear has been so pervasive in my life

[alyssuh]

I’m sorry you have been stuck. But i feel you should really do what the therapist said. Even start with little amounts of time like 10 mins. It will be soooo hard but the more you do it the weaker the ocd will get! It feeds off of what we fear and whats important to us. I’m having the same problem kind of. I’m in my last semester of nursing school and the stupid ocd keeps telling me i’m gonna fail and have to repeat in a year. It gets to me because i have plans and i know i can do well and graduate but i know how hard it can be to believe what you know is rational and logical over what the ocd is making you believe. Plus, incorporating more fun things into your life will have sooo many benefits, maybe even allowing you to feel less compelled to study for prolonged amounts of time because you may feel excited to break from studying knowing you are confident in yourself, you are allowing good energy and the production of good hormones to flow through you

[philoso]

Listen some music to destract from this obsession. BT what u are doing now,( i.e. continuous study ) Is surely not good. U r feeding ur fear that u will not pass in the exam. And OBSESSION is continuous study. If u continued this way it will become easy for other kinds of OCD i.e. contamination OCD etc. to attack u in the coming future.

[Empath245]

Sending love ❤️