- Date posted
- 3y
I am struggling doing bad habits "perfectly, one last time" (just right OCD)
As the title says, I've been having difficulty quitting bad habits. I cut out all junk food from my diet as well as alcohol and pornography. I've lost 10 pounds in the last two months and have 15 more to go. However, I'm stuck in a thought loop of telling myself that I haven't engaged in those bad habits "correctly" the last time I did them. For example, the last time I had alcohol was at my friend's wedding in October, and I had two sweet alcoholic drinks. This feels wrong to me because in my mind it should have been a beer, the standard alcoholic drink, during a regular day of the week. This has been circling in my mind since I had alcohol back in October. I guess I could have a beer to make things "just right" but I am on medications and I'm not supposed to drink alcohol. I also have the same obsession with taking medications, I feel like the day I started taking medications was not the "right day" to start and that I should've waited until a different time to start. I also have the same thoughts with junk food. Chips, ice cream, soda, pastries. I keep thinking about how I should've had a bit of a ceremony about the last time I had these items to mark the event instead of just randomly cutting them out of my life. The same can be said about quitting pornography as well - I keep feeling like the last time I used it it wasn't "just right" and that I need to do it one last time perfectly. Does anyone have any suggestions about how I can get rid of these thoughts? I've talked to therapists about this before and it hasn't seemed to help. I honestly can't sleep most nights because of the thoughts that something feels "off". I'm losing hope, life is incredibly difficult most days because I can't get these thoughts out of my mind. I am currently on 112.5 mg of Effexor daily and I'm planning on increasing my dosage until I feel my OCD waning away.