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- 2y ago
Can OCD affect your study pattern and studies ?
Asking as a college student. Can anyone relate?
Asking as a college student. Can anyone relate?
i’m in secondary school and sitting big exams and when i feel like shit i just don’t revise its bad
I hope you'll be fine. Please take breaks if you feel tired and exhausted. Do not force yourself to things yet try your best. 🌈 Good luck to you for whatever you do^^
@hiy aw thanku! You too
As a former student, OCD sufferer and now therapist I will say absolutely! OCD can interfere and effect any area of our lives. For me, as a student it made studying a nightmare. I’d have to reread things A LOT, and also “fix” things over and over! Sometimes avoidance of studying became the compulsion! Just like using exposure to face those OCD fears, you can use it in studying! Expose yourself to answering questions incorrectly, writing a “not perfect” paper, or not rereading even in the first time through didn’t feel “just right”. You got this!
Thank you so much for your response. It really means a lot. But tbh, I've almost overcome my compulsions of rewriting and rereading with the help of coping mechanism. But what only gets is my intrusive thoughts based on Harm OCD and magical thinking ocd. Also, I've realised I'm more anxious and numb than before. And my learning process has gotten slower in pace or I've just forgot at what pace a normal person learns. Is this also because of OCD?
I can definitely relate! I’m currently in grad school and have had to take several breaks throughout my program due to doubts. I start to get stuck in intrusive thought spirals and then my big compulsion is to avoid schoolwork and communication. The good news is I’ve found that accessing disability support services at my Uni has made a big difference and I’m now 1 class away from completing my degree!
Yes
YES, sometimes I feel so demotivated and it's hard to find the energy to study. That causes a lot of stress, unfortunately. :(
I’m in Secondary school and it effects me with no motivation due to compulsions
it interferes with e v e r y t h i n g. as a person who started having more severe ocd symptoms earlier this year when school started cracking down, it definitely impacted my schoolwork. (and especially with the pandemic, etc. etc.)
Hey guys! So I struggle with OCD, especially harm, relationship and moral stuff and I am somewhat recovered now. However, my current girlfriend has started showing signs of OCD but it’s abou5 something I don’t know much about so I wanted to see if anyone on here had thoughts about it. She is constantly thinking about food (when to eat it, what is healthy, what is too much, what is too little) and controls the thoughts by giving in and controlling her entire day around food. She don’t really know the feeling of being full. She never starved herself and always eats, but then she feels extremely guilty afterwards. Her thoughts do have to do a lot with her body image and not gaining weight but also not losing any either. Does this sound like ocd or an eating disorder?
Anyone struggle with this with having ocd?
Hi, I’m new here!! I’m praying I don’t get judged for this. But, back in late May of 2022 ( literally right before I graduated high school), I added this one random girl from my school on Snapchat. She posted something about a graduation party , so I swiped up on her story basically saying how I can’t believe we’re almost graduated. She replied and we had a really short and simple conversation. The next day ( i believe) , we started talking a lot , and I just so happened to see her at the highschool when we were grabbing our graduation outfits and doing the rehearsal. When I saw her irl, I kinda got turned off ( I heard she was kinda crazy) , and on top of that , she was a little ugly irl. I remember seeing her Snapchat bio , and she was close friends with my female cousin ( a year younger than me) , who I happened to experiment sexually with when I was 10-11 years old. I remember going to work later that day and having sort of a lightbulb flick thought ( it wasn’t a good thought though) , what if my cousin told her about what happened when we were younger? So I started to kind of panic and immediately distanced myself from that girl. I also experimented sexually with one of my female friends when I was 10-11 , and from that day onwards, I’ve been pretty much living in paranoia and a little bit of guilt about someone finding out and my life being ruined . On top of that, It’s gotten worse to now sometimes I wonder if a girl I added off of quick add ( Snapchat) is underage even if they told me they were 18+ or had 18 and above in their bio, and I get so much guilt and anxiety about that. I even had a quick thought last February on what if I did something inappropriate with my younger cousin when I was 15-16 but I just can’t exactly remember when it happened , and it still eats me alive when I think about it, because I don’t know if it happened or not. I’m sorry for the long vent, I just wish I felt normal again. No matter how much I try to do things that old me used to do, life always feels “ off”. I always kept the top part about when I was younger a secret up until early (ish ) 2024, then I vented to one of my best friends and he told me that that’s a normal thing to do at a young age. Since then, I have told multiple friends and they all say they did similar stuff, but my brain just can’t accept that. Please help me, I quite literally overthink everything nowadays. 2021 was the last full year that I felt normal ( coincidentally, the best year of my life so far) . It’s not just about sexual related things either, sometimes I’ll wonder if I messed up something at work or hit a car while driving/hit someone and drove off. I just wanna live my life how I was supposed to live it after highschool ( carefree and happy) before whatever it is ( I think it’s ocd) hit me unexpectedly. Thanks to anyone who read this , I just needed to pour it out regardless of how negative I felt typing this, I hope someone can relate , because I feel so alone in my head at times.
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