can anyone help

[Lightning01]

I suffer with ocd at night time I like unwind and watch tv I think gonna watch soap programme then I think no I watch wrestling ten I think no I watch boxset does anyone think it’s my ocd it’s driving me nuts it’s like my ocd can’t make up what to watch

[deValentin]

In order to qualify for OCD, your symptoms need to be distressing and impairing. In other words, they prevent you from functioning reasonably well in life. Otherwise, it could be only plain indecisiveness in regard to what to watch on TV. Indecisiveness sometimes comes from the difficulty to tolerate opportunity costs, that is, the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen. If you choose a program, you forego the potential benefits of watching another one. That's the nature of choice. To make a choice within a reasonable time, given the information available at the time, may be difficult first, but, in the end, you're glad you were able to make one. The alternative is paralysis of action, which is a lot more costly in the long term.

This being said, there is often a link between poor executive functions like deliberating, concluding, planning, etc., and OCD. With OCD, one feels the need to find absolute certainty in order to make a decision, which is not realistic, and, at the same time, feels unable to end, or at least put on hold, that search for absolute certainty in order to redirect one's attention to more important and pressing matters.

[Lightning01 in reply to deValentin]

Even when make choice like last night I had 2 weeks worth of home and away to watch I got half through the episodes I like watch all episodes but my head says now you got to watch wrestling and I start watch wrestling I don’t if it’s my ocd or what

[deValentin in reply to Lightning01]

Maybe the perspective of watching a wrestling program became all of the sudden a lot more appealing. There is nothing wrong with that, in my opinion, unless not sticking to your original plans caused you a lot of distress afterwards, and this is repetitive.

There is no “indecision disorder” listed in the DSM (the diagnosis book for psychiatry/psychology/social work), but indecisiveness could be a symptom of depression or anxiety.

OCD is more like, "I got to do that, or something awful is going to happen". There is a category in the DSM called "Impulse control disorders (ICDs)", where people feel a sudden impulse to do something and are unable to control it. Only a professional could make an appropriate diagnosis though.

[Lightning01 in reply to deValentin]

Thanks for the reply just lately I find it hard pick something to watch for the night when I get so far and watch something else even when I watch boxset I get so far and start watch something else it’s stressing me out I used to pick one thing and watch it to end but lately I struggling pick one thing watch to end in past I used watch whole boxset and watch something else after the boxset but seem to do that anymore sometimes it feels like I got to watch this or something might happen to me

[deValentin in reply to Lightning01]

If you change your TV-watching plan midway because you feel compelled to do it to ward off bad luck (magical thinking), why not practice exposure and response prevention? With ERP, you resist your compulsions to the best of your abilities, that is, in your case, you don't change without good reasons what you planned to watch. It's not easy because there is an immediate reward to give in to compulsions (feeling of relief) and a more distant reward to resist them (feeling in greater control of your life). However, it gets better with habituation. Some people find it easier to practice ERP with a therapist. Whatever you choose, I wish you success with it.