is it hard for y’all to read sometimes when your ocd is flaring up? it can take me up to 10 minutes just to read a single page sometimes because i convince myself that i miss read it or didn’t comprehend it correctly. and like i have a high reading level and i love reading, this is just making it extremely hard
Extremely difficult for me. Reading, as much as I enjoy it, can be so taxing because my thoughts are given free reign when I'm trying to concentrate on a single task with nothing to distract it. I could also see words that make me uncomfortable and cause a compulsion to arise, etc. I don't know if this would be too distracting, but maybe having music on while reading would tone down the intrusive thoughts or the need to give into the compulsions.
Yes. I find that sometimes I just have to listen to an audio book that requires less of my attention. When I can’t focus on what I’m reading I will listen to books about minimalism or tidying.
@AfraidOfFood yes if i listen to the audio book while reading the real book it is so much easier
Reading is one of the few things nothing can stop me from doing but I’ve heard this before from others, so it isn’t just you.
Yeah. Impossible to concentrate when your anxiety is amplified. I’ll read a page, and immediately forget what I just read.
Anyone struggle with this with having ocd?
so i was on instagram and it came up with other signs of ocd then someone commented this doesn’t mean you have ocd now im stressed that its not ocd background - i had so-ocd for a few years then got treatment for it but am now on the waiting list for further treatment for other stuff but i dont have another theme which makes me feel like its not ocd my day to day life consists of touching the door handle every time you go past it or someone will die, and inability to send emails without re reading loads of times and getting other people to check because im scared i wrote something bad but the what if it’s not ocd thought is triggering me now and i don’t know what do
i’ve been dealing with this “thing” since i was 15. (i’m 23 now) if i have a bad memory that i have done when i was really young or just an intrusive thought i feel like i need to tell my mom or boyfriend. it’s been on and off ever since but since January hit it’s been an everyday thing about the littlest things. mostly about my relationship. an example is i was talking to someone random at my job and we were talking about taxes and when im in deep thought or just thinking i do a thing where i bite my lip (not in the sexual way) and i had a thought when it happened “was that sexual?” and i felt like i did something wrong and i went for a while thinking that until i told my boyfriend about it. or like my ex’s face has popped up in my head in the most inappropriate times and i feel the need that i have to tell him. (my ex was not a good person) i feel like im a prisoner in my head everyday, trying to justify thoughts or remind myself that its just a thought. i didnt know that this was or could be a form of ocd. it runs in my family but i’ve just never considered it being this. i always called it anxiety or depression but i always felt like it is more than that.
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