OCD at work

[chromatic24680]

How do you cope with OCD at work?

Especially if you hate your job, (like many people do)

I suffer from severe OCD, and have the need to do compulsions all day, especially at work.

[RHCPfan]

I take Klonopin when I know I’m going to be really triggered. A lot of times if a compulsion would raise eyebrows, I just tell myself I’ll deal with it after the work day, then go home, discuss it with my husband, and just deal with the discomfort of not engaging in it. I usually try to distract myself with something else to shift some focus from it.

[Mlk307]

Hi, I do suffer from Severe OCD. it could appear at work, during holidays, during any important time, and in fact it is when you need your self that the OCD make sure will come. at work I always had OCD since 20 years and more. people don't know it because I hide it, I go outside for instance when it is intense, and I don't want my colleagues to know. some period of my life I lost eventually the job because I couldn't perform the tasks that I am assigned for. I spend too much time in compulsion where normally I have to double effort in my job. the worst when I am called to a meeting room and told that I am not performant and I have to leave the job, the feelings is so bad, that you think the world will collapse, in your head you hear : looser, looser, incompetent …etc. when I got new positions I always ask my self how long will I spend in this new role ? I staid without job during 2 years, because I didn't know how to manage. then I decided to challenge myself, find a job and keep it. if this helps you, I take a booknote and write the ocd and the attack at the moment and say OK, lets come back to it after 5pm after work...I draw a redline (say to this monster, don't touch my job …stop now). a job is your way to stay alive, stay in the society, to win against this monster, you have to be deliverable. the day where you start not going to work or not caring about your children is the day the monster took over your life. the best solution from my experience is delay the response, delay the compulsion even 10mn, ideally after work, you will notice the attack disappears. promise to yourself that you will come back to it after work.

[chromatic24680 in reply to Mlk307]

Thank you so much for your reply.

I am in the same boat! Severe OCD, especially at work.

What kind of OCD do you have? Otr what is the OCD about?

[Luna-blade in reply to Mlk307]

I suffer from severe pure ocd as well. Working for 40 hours a week is sthg I can no longer handle. Though I am excellent at my job and I can multitask, but lately I have been put into a team where the team leader is a heartless, work obsessed, and extremely demanding person. She pressures all of us to show the company that she is working and earn a bonus from our own effort. I am collapsing and can no longer bear the pressure especially that I have been assigned to do that kind of work while my qualifications are way too higher than that. I informed the company that I can no longer work on that team and that I have to leave in case my position does not change. All will be clear next week. Either I resign or I stay but I am really burnt out. Any advice?

[Mlk307]

the list is very long. for example : verification and deleting ideas, like remembering things, I constantly try to remember about some words, sentence I pronounced otherwise if I don't remember may be something bad will happen to a loved one, or may be something will remains the entire of my life. an other example : may be you heart someone when you where driving this morning. it could be also about numbers, since I work with computer whole day, some numbers appears on my screen that are obcessions for me (15 for example), so I have to avoid them. if I have to take a day off Wednesday and it appears Wednesday if 15 so I ask for the next day 16...and so on. the lsit so long that I am exhausted at the end of the day. by miracle, I succeed to be successfull in my carreer..I dont know how..but I am still present...

[chromatic24680]

Wow, sounds really hard my friend. hope you can manage it. All the best!

[Mcfly64]

Are you on medication for you ocd?