I’m currently under treatment for undiagnosed OCD. I don’t mean to say that my thoughts are out of control, but that they’re out of control so much that I can’t even tell a difference between them and my normal day-to-day behaviors. Since I don’t have a history of OCD, I’m trying to get as much help as I can.
I know that OCD can be difficult to manage in its own right, but let me just say that it is a disorder in which a person’s actions are perceived as being “wrong” or “involuntary.” With OCD, you are constantly aware of your thoughts and actions, so you feel like you are doing something wrong or are somehow “losing control” of your life.
And of course, the other half of OCD is the feeling of shame or guilt about them. As a person diagnosed with OCD, your thoughts and actions are not your own. They are the actions of a fictional character you feel guilty to harm. You can only truly understand OCD if you really want to understand it. That’s why I have spent so much time over the past few months trying to get people with OCD to open up to me about it.
So many people with OCD have never really wanted to admit that they have it. It is the same reason many people don’t talk about their childhood. To others, it sounds like a crazy thing, but for them it is actually quite normal. For others, it is an obsessive behavior that causes them a lot of distress.
One of the main complaints I hear from people with OCD is that they get a lot of stress from the repetitive behaviors they do. This would probably be the case if you are a person with this disorder, but that is not always the case. Some people with true OCD behaviors have a very low tolerance for stress.
The biggest stressors for people with OCD are the repetitive behaviors themselves. Often, this activity can be seen as a way of dealing with the stressors that are constantly coming at you. The OCD person will do whatever it takes to avoid a situation that they are having trouble dealing with. So if you feel depressed, you go out in public and stare at people’s cars or people’s houses. If you are having trouble with that, you stare at something that makes you feel better.
There are a variety of techniques that can help deal with OCD symptoms. For example, many people with OCD have a panic disorder in which they can be very anxious about an imminent danger. One way to deal with this is by trying to distract yourself with things that you know will bring you relief. For example, if you are having trouble with a lot of sensory input, you might find yourself staring at the ceiling or staring at the ground.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t look at the ceiling or the ground, I’m just saying that you might find yourself staring at something that makes you feel better. This is one way OCD can manifest itself in a variety of ways, but if you think about it, staring at something that makes you feel better is probably the same goal as looking at the ceiling.
If you are staring at the ceiling, then you are probably not sitting too close to a light switch. If you are staring at the ground, then you are probably not sitting too far away from a lamp. This is a pretty big distinction, but it is a good one to understand. Some people who have Ocd will find themselves staring at objects that make them feel better than they were before they developed Ocd.
The difference between these two scenarios is that when someone with Ocd stares at something that makes them feel better, they are also not sitting too close to the light switch. That is, they are not close enough, but they are closer than they were before the onset of Ocd. Because Ocd makes you feel better when you are close to something, you will also be close to something that makes you feel better.