Re:No Bad Things: Growing up with obsessive-compulsive disorder
by CmonDev on Thursday July 16, 2015 @04:16AM
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> ...lest I add another compulsion to my list of OCD habits...
It's very tempting, but this is what prevents me from sharing :). Mine are all "reasonable" meaning that there IS a miniscule chance of something happening, so better check it N amount of times, where N is a number that follows specific rules. I guess I could only "contract" a "reasonable" one, e.g. some of the Tesla's habits "make sense".
Re:No Bad Things: Growing up with obsessive-compulsive disorder
by nashequilibrium on Thursday July 16, 2015 @02:50AM
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As a teenager i would get late for school sometimes because i would struggle to get out my bedroom doorway. That damn key in the keyhole would trip me up every time. I would be standing there tapping that key until it fell at just the right angle. The amazing thing is i could not bring myself to just throw the damn key away as i never used it, the brain is amazing in the ways it can fuck with you, with you even knowing that its fucking with you.
I got hope from the telling that the compulsions can wane over time but I'm fearful they can come back even stronger. I did, however, learn something new in that my OCD did not begin when I first though it began (sometime in 2004 when I first thought something was wrong), but 14 years earlier when I was age 10 and had to sleep with my covers tucked underneath me (to prevent the spiders under my bed from getting at me). Maybe this will help in therapy..