Anyone on here suffer with OCD?

raven83

Just interest really to know if anyone else on here suffers with it, and if so what kind do you have. My type varies, atm it is going over and over things in my mind, checking stuff and worrying if i don't, negative things will happen. It has flared up lately, probably due to the fact i have come of fluoxetine, as much as my mind feels clearer in someone ways my OCD and my nerves have really flared up:( Does anyone have any ways of dealing with it, i know they are irrational thoughts but at the time it is hard to ignore them. Sorry for the ramble just feel a bit bluerrrrghhhhhh atm and need some reasurance that i am not the only one that lives with this problem.

miss_marsters

Yes i do...

Mine is an obession with death,and others dying around me. It varies to spaces where i can breathe and the OCD is only a small space in my mind and i've had phases where its all i think about 24/7

Although feeling sad about death is a natural thing for most,for me its an obbession - with the complusion aspect being constantly having to call the person i am worried about until they answer (although i can control it so i wouldnt call someone in the middle of the night)
My OCD makes me believe that if i cant reach someone - they must be hurt/dead.


How do i cope? I had CBT which helped ALOT and i shared my issues with those close to me and they understand to an extent - but they accept at times i am very irrational andmay call them 10 times lol

Most of all, i separate me and the OCD. If i get 'bad thoughts' i say to myself thats an ocd thought or thats the OCD

I think its important to be kind to yourself there are times when i'm on a 8/10on my OCD scale and i feel low, but usually there are other factors that are making it worse... but like most things the bad times will pass

browneyedbazzi

I used to have the milder version (OCPD - obsessive compulsive personality disorder) but haven't really had any problem with it for years - it seemed to virtually disappear when I was on anti-depressants and thankfully hasn't re-surfaced to the degree it was. I'm still uncomfortable with things in even numbers and really prefer things to be in odds, I wash my hands an awful lot, and am quite particular about how certain things are done but it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be and I now recognise that world won't actually end if things aren't 'just so'. I used to get really upset if I got dirty at all and I had a need to repeatedly count on my fingers (touching my thumb to each finger, count up to four in one direction then back again in the other direction, no idea why).

For me OCDP symptoms were always worst when I felt stressed or under pressure so an important part of dealing with it was to learn how to cope with situations so I don't feel stressed.

Hermia

Sort of mildly. Almost everyone in my mum's family has it (my grandfather actually became housebound because it took him four hours to go through his rituals before he could leave the house). I have been aware of tendencies in myself since childhood so have been very vigilant. I remember telling my infant school teacher that I couldn't stop counting things. I have a few eccentricities which are basically mild OCD, but I watch myself like a hawk. I notice if I get stressed that I start getting worse so I always force myself to stop. I think at the very beginning it is possible to use willpower to stop, but once it's gone beyond this you need help. Hence, the reason I monitor my behaviour. I have lots of older relatives who have OCD that is mucking up their lives so I know what can happen.

jetplane

I used to have a form of this when I was younger and I had CBT which helped greatly. It addressed my irrational thoughts and gave me little tests to do so that I would see nothing bad would happen. I can't tell you how difficult it was to leave the house with the breakfast dishes in the sink, or the bedroom door open and the bathroom door closed. I still count in patterns and sometimes have to go back to a starting point if I'm checking things in my head and get interupted but I learnt that when bad things happen it wasn't because I forgot to do or didn't do something.

I don't know why you have come off fluoxetine but maybe your GP could try an alternative or you could ask for therapy. If you have already had it you could ask for a refresher.

fannyadams

Actually it's C D O or the letters aren't in alphabetical order.
Sorry, it's a joke that I crack to lighten the fact that I too have CDO and am often paralysed by rituals that make things go OK in my life.
I have found that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helped, so I can at least get out he house and do more.
and I have heard that certain antidepressants can also help but I don't know which ones.

raven83

Yeah i think it was silly things that have started it off. In the last few weeks it has got worse. All started a few weeks ago when i had a knock on the door from a debt collector which never had before, since then i have been really jumpy everytime i hear a noise or see someone i don't know hanging about near my house, so that rattled me a little and a found myself getting quite ocd, then about a week later i got a benefit review form from the benefit integrity centre and that really scared me as i thought maybe they was thinking i had done something wrong( even though it is probably standard review) and i started to question myself and since then the ocd has been really bad, it is stupid things that trigger it off. I feel like i got to keep checking stuff or do something a number of times or bad stuff will happen and the reason them 2 things happend was because i didn't do my checking grrrrrr i sound like such a twit but atm i just feeling like i need to see things rationally but i can't seem to.

rising_from_the_ashes

Yup .... another sufferer here.

I am however really lucky in that "my little rituals" don't generally affect my everyday life to the extent of some others (I know someone that has to wash their hands/forearms for 1/2 an hour everytime she goes to the loo).

I count ...... everything I do (from stirring a cup of coffee, to peeling veg) - as I have an fear of the number 13 - so .... everything has to be counted to make sure nothing is done 13 times.

Also ..... hanging out washing - I have a way of doing it - only have 2 colours of pegs, each item can only have one colour on and they must alternate around the whirly-gig and also in rows (colour 1, colour 2, colour 1, colour 2 on row one then colour 2, 1, 2, 1 on row 2 etc). (Although it does mean rehanging the whole lot if some is dry and I want to get more out!)

In a way, winter makes things easier (as can hang washing indoors) but I do love getting it outside!

Things also have to be symetrical (sp?) ..... I know .... I'm odd!:o

savemoney

Haven't been diagnosed but I do wonder if I have it. I quite often have to check front door is locked, when I do go out I always go back to check as I am walking down path and think to myself did I lock that door? I do same with car and also check lights are off. If I go out for day I have to go to toilet several times before I do even though I dont need to I worry I might need to when I go any where usually a distance of say 40 miles. If I do have it is mild form

I keep thinking about my mum who passed away a year last week to and also now I have a song I keep humming to myself and cant seem to shake it

To be honest I have enough on my plate with being tired all time as I have trouble sleeping and been told it may be because a vain in my neck may be restricting air flow as I wake up with headaches all time

Four_leaf_clover_2

I think I have OCD. It takes me forever to get out the house in the morning because I have to check that every light, tap, plug etc is turned off. I must go up and down the drive a good 5 times making sure the front door is locked. Part of me would love a front door that locks shut as it closes, then again I would worry myself silly about getting locked out without keys :cool:

I then drive to work and the volume on the radio has to be an even number. I actually feel twitchy if it is set on an odd number, especially 13.

When I get to work I then [STRIKE]spend[/STRIKE] waste even more time making sure the car windows, sun roof, radio and lights are turned off.

I am not sure if this comes under being OCD or me just being a weirdo, but I cannot stand it if I buy a newspaper and then someone picks it up and has a flick through it, before I have read it.

I have to make my own cups of tea as I have a certain way it must be made or I cant drink it.

Depending on which filling I choose for my sandwich determines which bread I use. Cheese, chicken salad, ham and roast beef must be on brown bread, egg mayonaise must be on granary and things like marmite, jam, peanut butter, marmalade must be on white. Toast must always be white for me. I am the only person I know who buys three mini loafs in all the breads I [STRIKE]need[/STRIKE] like.

Jaysus reading this back I can only conclude I am certifiable.
*shuffles off to book an urgent appointment with a head doc*

raven83

savemoney wrote: »

Haven't been diagnosed but I do wonder if I have it. I quite often have to check front door is locked, when I do go out I always go back to check as I am walking down path and think to myself did I lock that door? I do same with car and also check lights are off. If I go out for day I have to go to toilet several times before I do even though I dont need to I worry I might need to when I go any where usually a distance of say 40 miles. If I do have it is mild form

I keep thinking about my mum who passed away a year last week to and also now I have a song I keep humming to myself and cant seem to shake it

To be honest I have enough on my plate with being tired all time as I have trouble sleeping and been told it may be because a vain in my neck may be restricting air flow as I wake up with headaches all time

I am exactly the same as that too!