- Date posted
- 2y
Unhealthy required course
This course I am taking is undermining years of retraining my brain not to believe my OCD. I had come so far in fighting perfectionism, and accepting that many things only needed to be good enough to meet their standards rather than the standards my OCD set for them. I had learned that while assignments (whether school or work) are important, they aren’t everything. I was starting to believe the truth that one can’t give everything one’s 100%. I was starting to trend towards more balance in life despite having a ways to go. I was taking time for myself, but not getting quite so burnt out that then I hibernated and got stuck in those “little breaks”, or at least not for as long. I was celebrating that personal progress as I encouraged myself to keep trending towards healthier. Now, I may need to disappoint my in-laws and last-minute not show up to Thanksgiving because this paper is due tomorrow night, and 2 full days of work on it has me at less than 2/3 of being finished.