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Beautiful UK OCD sufferers - what am I avoiding? (Asks an American OCD’er)

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I fear death over and over again. Thinking if I torture myself now enough with it I can avoid it. Time lost forever just mulling over all the risks and then when those risks are debunked looking at something on the fringe that might hurt me. That’s my life - avoiding a tragic death. Yet I am my own tragedy, walking on my hands just to keep my feet from getting dirty. I can’t avoid the thought it’s internal. I can’t possibly remove all the risks. Just when everything is sanitary a muddy shoed inspector can come to check my access to the fire escape. How do I clean him? He refuses to take off his shoes leaves and now what if there’s a fire?

What am I avoiding?

Self fulfillment

Why?

Because it’s different

So what ?

So what what?

So what’s the difference?

Change is an acknowledgment of time. I don’t like time passing. I refuse to pass with it. Procrastination is the protest of the indifferent.

What am I avoiding!!!

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Cellothere

Protests are never indifferent.

You can't clean the man.

Sometimes I think that without any OCD I would be amazingly creative and productive and fulfilling all my potential, because I would not be using all my energy via my OCD. But I have moments where I am terrified that without any of that my life would feel completely empty and bereft. I would possibly have to face the fact that there is probably no actual point to it...it would be opening the psychological chasm. So my brain is filling it up.

Just a thought. Peace be with you. x

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Cellothere in reply toCellothere

I will rephrase that as 'possibility' rather than 'fact'. :-))

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I hear you!

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