Okay, does anyone have this? Like when writing a text/even a message on here, or trying to say something, you’re worried your words might not be true or you spend forever crafting them perfectly and then delete the post 4 times, etc.
I have lost many hours of my life to trying to word things perfectly. Rewriting and redoing is a common perfectionism compulsion. I have found the book When Perfect Isn’t Could Enough helpful. ERP is also really good for this. For example, you could try not deleting version number 3 and posting it even if it isn’t perfect. Or purposefully including a typo in a post and posting it and then sitting with the anxiety until it goes down.
@Erin P Thank you that’s helpful!
@Erin P Ditto.
Your welcome.
OMG THIS IS ME! I have never met anyone else that has this too! It used to take me two hours to write a single email because I would rewrite the sentences and then make sure the words didn't magically change into something else. Now I'm okay with things not sounding perfect. My boss once said to me, "Not sending an email is way worse than sending an imperfect one. No one cares enough to pick out any flaws." Made me really think!
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I’ve been diagnosed with OCD but I don’t have these intrusive thoughts like everyone else...so I’m convincing myself I don’t really have OCD I struggle I guess with rOCD (and more)...I guess I always check to see if a person texted me back. I blow up the persons phone until they respond. I use to have it really bad where I had so much anxiety if I didn’t do it and so much anxiety if I did. When guys leave me....I freak out and have damn near a heart attack from panicking so much. And once I get this thought in my head whether it’s “you should’ve said this” or “he probably lied to you when he said this” or whatever there’s this feeling in my body. It’s like an uncomfortable negative vibe and that thought becomes priority. I have to do it. I have to text them and it’s hard to think of anything else. And when I do it doesn’t stop so i shouldn’t give in but sometimes I do. And if I get over that thought later another might replace it and it starts again. Anybody else feel this way...?
Am I the only one who has to erase and erase what I wrote until it feels « right »?
Has anyone ever had a fixation on words? It sounds weird but sometimes I get obsessed with the meanings of words or whether I understood something I heard or read, and then that intrusive thought distracts me from the conversation, book, tv show, etc. and I freak out because I feel like I can’t track/retain information normally. If I don’t have that thought I’m fine, but if it pops up, it’s so hard to get unstuck.
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