- Date posted
- 1y
How can I stop throwing things away?
I'm not sure if this is part of my ocd or not. In some ways it feels like it is and in other ways it feels like it isn't. So I go through these cycles of throwing all of my possesions away like clothes and books etc everytime a relationship ends or whenever someone has hurt me. I even sold my car once as I was so hurt by my ex that I wanted a different car that she had never been in or seen. I remember the first time I felt and did this was when I was about 12 and my father had let me down so much in life that i decided i no longer wanted to support the same football team as him and I ripped up every piece of memorabilia and pictures i had taken with the players etc I am now 36 and I still doing the same thing. I am currently putting my backpacking photos from 8 years ago into an album as it is something I have wanted to do for a while. A lot of the pictures I am very drunk in and not proud of as I believe that was the time i started struggling mentally. Also a lot of the pictures have a guy in that i became good friends with at that time but in the years since then where I have become sober he did nothing but try to derail that so i dont particularly count him as a friend anymore let alone a good friend and a lot of the pictures just make me feel angry now when I look at them. My question is does anyone else have this and is it ocd or is it normal?