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I cleared all my tabs almost a week ago and now I’m close to having about 300 tabs open again. I’m constantly looking things up.
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It’s comforting to know another person is going through this. Have you found any techniques that help?
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@Anonymous Honestly, I’m still noticing these things about myself. Like, I can’t tell if it’s because my mind feels like it has millions of thoughts at the same time or if it’s the need to have a certain amount of tabs open just to make me comfortable. Might still be a little of both but what I’ve been trying to do is limit how much I look up in a day. Also, if I search something new, I’ll delete a tab or two to keep it from getting larger. I don’t know if it’s helping, but I haven’t felt uncomfortable with it yet.
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@Milky_Way Those are great tips. I started something recently where I keep a mason jar on my desk or nearby throughout the day. I allow myself 3 terms per day, 1 source each. When I research an arbitrary term, I limit it to one source, write the term on a small piece of paper and put it in the jar. Once 3 pieces of paper (3 terms) are in the jar, I close it up and I’m done for the day. No more researching. This method has been working a bit for me, but I just relapsed pretty bad today.
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@Anonymous That’s a good goal to get to! Thinking about only 1 source right now kind of worries me but I hope I can get to the point where I am able do that.
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Yes! I often get an “I need to know about this Now or Else” thing For me i think this falls under “rumination” idk if i spelled that correctly
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Yes! I feel the same way and then a following thought will be “if I don’t do this now it will never get done” and then 30 minutes has passed and I’ve moved on to a different topic that I must look into
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@Milky_Way Right!!! It gives me so much anxiety not knowing the stupidest things. Some nights i’ll get on tangent worked up about some 2009 study on beaver or whatever thing that has NO bearing on my life but feels so important like i think my life is DOOMED if i don’t know this stuff. So strange, brain
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@obsessing&stressing I feel you on that! I think that’s why I love your username because I constantly have moments of literally obsessing over a small topic and stressing if I can’t find the right thing that makes sense to me. I’ve gotten to a point where I can’t trust all that I read so I need to read more than one thing to make sure they all say the same thing.
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@Milky_Way Me too!!!
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Yes this is a common obsession- “needing to know”
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HOOOOOLYYY SHIT, I relate so much!!!! I do this a ton, with many things, but mostly it's all related to mental health! I'm autistic, and mental health is my special interest. Also, I have ADHD and lived experience with various mental conditions. Aaaand I'm a mental health therapist too... so I'm just like CONSTANTLY getting lost in research!!! 😫😫😫 When I research, it's usually about mental health, though I look up definitions of random terms all the time too!! On my phone on Google Chrome, I had 300+ tabs open as of my bday, Nov. 1st. By Xmas day, I had 550+ tabs open. I have no idea how many I have open now. Not to mention, my "reading list" on Google Chrome on my work laptop with even more mental health-related stuff. 😅😅😅😅😅
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Yep, this is one of my biggest compulsions.
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Not sure if this is OCD or ADHD or both, but sometimes I get really stuck on a topic to the point that it's obsessive and somewhat debilitating but still fun. Does anyone else get caught up on random topics (in a slightly unhealthy way)? This part of my mental health issues is one I don't mind as it has contributed a lot of joy to me through different fandoms and groups in my life. Just curious what obsessions (positive) you guys have and if you consider it a blessing, a curse or a blerse lol
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Does anyone else feel, if they know everything about a topic that you then have control over it? For example, when I first started trying to figure out what was hurting me and identifying it as OCD, I would and sometimes still do, research every detail I could find and read other people's experience obsessively. Doing this made me feel like I would be able to control my obsession and compulsions, the more I knew the more I could control. A lot of the time it just makes me more anxious and discouraged but I still do it when I think I can fix myself. I also this with other mental health disorders and topics, where I research until I feel like the learned information will equip me with more control.
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Hi! It’s pretty difficult for me to get the courage to post this but I’m really struggling to figure out if what I’m experiencing is OCD or Anxiety or neither. I think I have the “pure O” type of OCD where most of my compulsions take the form of ruminating and trying to figure out something all in my head. When I hear this talked about in forums or online the intrusive thoughts don’t really match mine- I worry often about things that seem more “grounded” if that makes sense. A common one for me is my own identity- i will spend long amounts of time stuck in my head trying to figure out my feelings (often sadness or other real emotions I have and patterns I have) and why I feel that way and what in my life caused that and how it’s impacting other things in my life. I also think often about which parts of my personality are the real me and which aren’t. Sometimes this takes the form of strictly ruminating and sometimes I have fake conversations with people I know. It’s intense and I feel I have to figure it out but with no specific intrusive thought that says something like “you have to figure this out or all of your loved ones will die” but it’s very intense. I think also often of all of the decisions I need to make in the future and how they’re going to affect those I love and care about as well as how much I’ll regret them. I imagine all of the ways I think my actions will emotionally hurt others and how to make the least harmful decision, but to me this feels like a valid concern but go over and over and never come to a conclusion. I often just get scared and never make any move because I don’t see an option that doesn’t hurt someone somehow. But again I’m having a hard time identifying the intrusive thought behind it. But I also don’t choose to think about these things most of the time. This is almost all decisions but especially big life decisions. It’s such a struggle because they are things I eventually do have to make decisions about. There is so much more to it that would take too long to explain but in general a lot of my fears revolve around pleasing others/ understanding others emotions to ensure they’re okay, my own identity and personality, and work/school performance. Someone mentioned OCD to me because in my head it feels like I have to solve these things and will go over and over them but I seriously can’t figure out if it’s anxiety, OCD, or none of the above. It’s all very disruptive to my life. I am never not thinking or not trying to figure something out and I feel as if I have no control over it Anyone have any insight?
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