...my Compulsion is touching things a certain number of times!
I know I'm doing it, but can't always stop it.
2007-01-28 00:20:17 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
I have obsessive compulsive disorder. When I first sought help from my doctor, he believed that I was simply experiencing generalized anxiety disorder and possibly panic disorder.
However, I have somewhat of an inability to stop thinking about something. It can be so intrusive and disturbing to me. When I was at my worst, I had insomnia, chronic nausea, muscle tension, and depression.
Since then, I've been prescribed lexapro (escitalopram oxalate) and take 10mg daily. This has helped to end all the physical symptoms. As for the obsessions, therapy and self-taught lessons have helped me to all but recover completely from the symptoms. I've learned simply to end an obsession. If something is bothering me so much that I cannot think about anything else, I consciously decide to terminate that thought and find something distracting.
And the compulsions? Well, I have almost completely stopped those as well. Every once in a while, I catch myself doing an old ritual such as touching things a certain way or a set number of times, but I stop myself and do something else.
I do live a "normal" life. I am finishing my senior year of high school and will be attending the college of my choice next year to study economics. I feel much better now. My happiness and excitement for life has returned, and I feel like I've recovered.
2007-01-28 02:32:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you just have OCD tendancies like me. People are quick to label themselves and others now a days even if nothing is wrong.
I have to check the back door is locked by checking the handle many times before going to bed even though I know I locked it earlier. Once upstairs I always have to check the cupboards and look out the front window before getting into bed. I used to have to have move certain items in certain places until they 'felt' right before leaving them. My slippers always have to be perfectly lined up next to each other next to the bed. These are all little things that come from habit. If I try really hard I can stop some of the smaller obsessions, but never the door. It comes from a niggling feeling that something will go wrong if I don't do it which I know is rediculous.
As long as you can live a normal life and make sure you don't start any new 'habits' you'll be fine.
2007-01-28 04:28:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have OCD as part of a wider anxiety disorder (panic disorder/agoraphobia). My obsession manifests itself as intrusive thoughts and compulsion to ask for constant reassurence. I can't work becasue of the agoraphobia and panic attacks at the moment and the OCD can drain my enthusiam for normal life.
The good news is that I am in Cognitive Behavioral therapy at the moment, and am on drugs to stabilise the condition. I am 70% better than I was, and am set to get even better. There is help out there and anyone can get better and over their OCD, no matter how severe.
2007-01-28 01:41:07 · answer #3 · answered by Alison of the Shire 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do have it, since the age of 8, i'm 21 one. I count and repeat some certain words and check if everythings in "order" and so on and so forth, but I've been attending psychotherapy and taking medicine, and it helps, a little. And normal life.. I don't remember what it is like to lead a normal life so i just dunno.
2007-01-28 00:32:21 · answer #4 · answered by friday's child 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My son suffers with it and it interferes big time with his life , he has soooo many compulsions i wouldn't have the space to write them all down !
I get exhausted watching him and i know it really gets him down , he just cant control it at the moment ...
*edit* hes 13 years old and its heartbreaking having to watch him suffer ...
2007-01-28 00:33:15 · answer #5 · answered by jizzumonkey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trichotillamania obsessive hair pulling and rituals with the hair it is a strange obsession I know but have never been able to beat it even with years of counseling and meds.
2007-01-28 00:53:42 · answer #6 · answered by sandra b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doing dishes, i cannot stand even one dish standing on the sink. I am continuesly cleaning the kitchen. Drives everyone nuts , me as well.
2007-01-28 00:29:58 · answer #7 · answered by Duisend-poot 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you know that you are doing it maybe it is not a disease maybe it is an overawareness of doing it and that feeds your need to do it subconsciously. Maybe it was some thing that you have been taught?
2007-01-28 00:36:46 · answer #8 · answered by Friend 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
go to holisticonline.com and check under diseases and conditions and check under OCD
2007-01-28 11:34:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have OCD. I don't have OCD. I don't have OCD.
It's easy to live with it. It's easy to live with it. It's easy to live with it.
Numbers don't matter. Numbers don't matter. Numbers don't matter.
2007-01-28 00:29:10 · answer #10 · answered by generalchris7 3 · 1⤊ 5⤋