Today, I was reading a book, and my severe OCD makes it impossible for me to look up from reading if I haven't finished the page. This includes times like when my mother is frantically calling for help after falling off a ladder. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my OCD reached a new high when I used a correction pen to white-out an eyelash which was photocopied onto every single page of my reading material. I did it because the eyelash was too distracting and I couldn't finish reading the article without the urge to rip it into shreds. FML
Today, I took a day off to read a book, but ended up with a headache from staring at a screen all day. FML
Today, my OCD mother got mad because I wouldn't let her turn the fan over my head at a higher speed than low. She's got every other fan going at high speed but not aimed at herself, while I'm trying to work from home without the wind in my face for 8 hours. FML
Today, I realized I had been staring at my phone for an hour without doing anything else. When I looked up, I noticed my mom had been standing in the doorway, shaking her head at me for a solid five minutes. I hadn’t noticed her. I wish I could use this laser focus to study for my college exams instead of wasting my time doomscrolling Instagram. FML
Today, after going to the bathroom I went to bed. I have a very sturdy bookshelf that sticks halfway to the right of the door as I enter my bedroom. I had dumbly turned off the lights as I didn't want to bother with them before bed. I ended up kneeing the bookshelf, hard, now I'm wide awake and in pain. FML
Today, I fell down the stairs while reading the 'mind your step' sign. FML
Today, I had to fake fall down the stairs so my mom would stop texting and actually pay attention to what I was saying. FML
Today, my obsessive-compulsive mother barred me from using the toilet she had just cleaned. She told me to wait until tomorrow. FML
Today, I realized how bad my OCD is when I accidentally got a paper cut and I was annoyed by the fact that the cut wasn't in a straight line. FML
Today, my mom read my diary. Then she frantically booked me an appointment with a psychiatrist. FML
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ajh1800 25
At this point, you might want to look into therapy to help with that if its something that causes you to delay in an emergency situation.
sororitytaylor 24
You know there are different types of OCD, right?
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ajh1800 25
At this point, you might want to look into therapy to help with that if its something that causes you to delay in an emergency situation.
Jim Cl 3
that is not ocd, ocd is when you do things repeatedly, that's focus or oblivion
nathan10mlse 7
or just straight up stupidity
sororitytaylor 24
You know there are different types of OCD, right?
WeirdUS 30
That's not an oops that's slamming your head into a wall stupid. You need serious help or are you that selfish you don't care someone is in danger?
RichardPencil 32
Tell your mom to get LifeAlert and quit hassling you. “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up...and I wouldn’t want to disturb you from your fancy reading.”
scoble2 7
So what do you do if the end of a page is not the end of a sentence? Do you have to keep reading until you're find a page that ends on a paragraph or sentence? You may want to look into an e-reader, and make the font fairly large, so it only takes a few seconds to finish a page. That way, you can finish a page no matter what situation.
Emelka_fml 20
Although this sounds like a good idea at first, it’s not good to indulge in your OCD rituals. In the long run, it doesn’t get rid of your obsessive thoughts, it just escalates them. So, I agree with the person suggesting therapy. My OCD treatment was (very very simply put): 1. Figure out all of your compulsive behaviors and the obsessive thoughts that come with them. 2. Increase the anxiety that is caused by obsessive thoughts without indulging in the rituals. For example, if the thought is, “if I don’t finish this page before I stop, I’m going to die” (OCD thoughts are almost never rational - they’re pretty much always “absurd”), then you talk back to yourself “well, guess I’m going to die” 3. Do NOT do the rituals.
alycion 39
If it’s that out of control and you haven’t sought help, ydi. If you are in treatment and still at that stage, fyl.
Peaches1914 13
The person on the ladder should had, another person spotting her on the ladder or have the person there hold the ladder The mother was not unaware of the person’s condition and adjust accordingly