Living with OCD

Hi all,

I came across this information which highlights what it is like living with OCD ?

I wanted to share with you all.

The bibliography information is below.

If you regard your thoughts as powerful indicators of what might or might not happen—and you frequently have disturbing thoughts—you’re left in a very difficult position. Some people say this feels like walking through a field of land mines. Your thoughts constantly warn you that danger lurks at every turn. You live in almost constant fear of those dangers and never know where or when you’ll stumble on one of these hidden mines, but all it takes is one misstep and—kaboom!—you are overwhelmed with fear that your worst nightmare is about to come true. To control the sense of danger and accompanying anxiety, you resort to rituals and behaviors that you think might protect you from these mines, allowing you to go about your business with less worry.

Your rituals might temporarily disable the mines, giving you a few minutes of short-lived relief. But sooner or later you’ll have to cross that field again, and the mines will be back—and there will likely be more of them, with shorter fuses and more powerful charges than before.

Yes, having OCD sucks. The very real social stigma attached to OCD brings unnecessary isolation and shame. The fact that little is truly known and understood about OCD, and that effective treatment may not be readily available to you, can make having OCD very tough indeed. But the daily act of wishing that you didn’t have OCD and wallowing in self-pity over it is guaranteed to increase the extent of your suffering from it. The wishing itself can become yet another obsession. In its worst form, wishing can lead to a sense of powerlessness over your OCD and become a serious detriment to effectively managing it in your life.

DuFrene, Troy. Coping with OCD: Practical Strategies for Living Well with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (pp. 7, 26-27). New Harbinger Publications. Kindle Edition.

[LuvSun]

Thanks for sharing! I’ll have to check this author out