Does anyone on here have ocpd as well as ocd?
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JessieV
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alexandraisobsessedIOCDF Advocate
JessieV,
I don't know that anyone on here does, but I know of a few advocates on social media who do. Let me know if you would like their handles.
Yes please! Apparently I have both.
I'm going to DM them to you.
Thanks!!
Hi Jessie - yes plus anxiety depression autism trich attachment disorder and possibly a non specific eating disorder- I’m exhausted- how you doing?
Hiiii!!! I feel we are kindred spirits. I too am exhausted from anxiety, depression, adhd, dependent personality disorder and of course our beloved friends ocd and ocpd.
Yes !!!! They’re all so contradictory of each other- for months I’ve been in a cycle of waking up depressed with no motivation and tingling legs from anxiety- I sit doing nothing for hours and hate it yet when I try and do something anxiety and dread consume me - when I actually get to the point of doing it ocd kicks in with intrusive thoughts and rituals- I go back to sitting doing nothing giving myself a hard time for not being able to do anything and welcome back tears and depression x
I wanted to "like" your post because I connect so deeply, but "like" seems kind of sick. I do not like this stuff one freaking bit.
And this is why we have each other. Because we need someone who understands. Like how can I be so obsessively focused and detail oriented on one thing and then unable to finish a sentence the next?? Brain! What are you doing in there??
I know! The contradictions can be so frustrating!!
Oh yes finishing a sentence - I totally get that- I actually forget what I’m talking about- that feeling that everyone has occasionally that they’ve forgotten something is me constantly so I hold my breath and close my eyes trying to force myself to remember what it is !!!! I seem to have lost the ability for simple calculations too and maths was my strongest subject and I studied at higher level- and I can no longer multitask!!! I really do feel like my brain has just stopped
I know! It’s honestly scary. I feel like I’m questioning and forgetting the most basic things!
Yes yes yes - my first panic attack years ago started in a supermarket because I couldn’t visualise how many tins of beans were in the cupboard therefore I couldn’t make sense of whether I should buy more !! Completely irrational and unimportant- they’re beans - buy them or don’t but so all consuming at the time and now everything is like that - have I brushed my teeth properly- have I showered the right way - am I walking properly- has the clean washing been put away in the right place and then the mind wanders about why it was decided why it’s the right place - what led me to the decision that there is a ‘right’ place - however give me a crisis and I’m absolutely fine !!!
I’ve been trying to get the motivation to go for a shower for a few hrs - I finally move to do it and then my ocd kicks in - are there any clean towels- so then I put off the shower to do some laundry but get side tracked as the kitchen needs to be tidied - start attacking the kitchen and feel so overwhelmed that I’m back on the sofa with a cuppa wondering how many steps it is from the sofa to the kettle!! Back to the shower but I can’t because what am I going to wear as I can’t choose properly because the laundry hasn’t been done!!!
Forgive me, this isn't about you, it's about me. I'm laughing my butt off, and almost crying, because this is me, me, me.
When I express these things I feel like it could be written for a comedy sketch show and I’m glad we can take some laughter from it as the struggles are scary x
Thank you for getting it! You're on the nose, 👃 👈
