questioning every thing .needing to understand everything

[sligoguy]

I am new to this site ...my ocd is needing to understand how every thing works .....anxious when I dont get it 1st time ....feeling stupid or a lesser person ...road signs is a head wreck

[LuvSun]

Welcome!

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Hi, welcome ! I think is more common than you think, just try to think that somethings in this world not need to be understood, life is amazing and we have to leave us surprising by the unknown things.

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I would like to welcome you to the OCD Support Network.

We are here to help and give hope to each other.

We are in this together.

I wish you good health.

[Ladybug9]

The very first thing you need to do is to get those thoughts out of your mind that you are stupid or a lesser person. That is the negative part of your OCD brain trying to convince you of those negative thoughts. Talk back and say, "oh hell no"!

[sligoguy in reply to Ladybug9]

Thanks

[socratesanne]

I, too, feel a need to understand everything and that makes the OCD worse sometimes until I get an answer to the pondering. It keeps me up at night to research a certain issues or talk to someone on the forum or just to finish a project. I used to avoid a project I really wanted to do, knowing it would take me into the OCD mode of overworking it. Now I just do it different ways. Have noticed I get obsessed with food, or research that I just do not quit projects as easily as I had begun to handle until the pandemic left me quarantined to continue to ruminate about all sort of things that take me into the obsessive thinking.