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OMG SAME! I feel like this is God punishing me for not accepting things in the past
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My morning ritual has become very long. Even if I wake up really early, I usually am late to work.
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I find my OCD interferes with my work by not allowing me to sleep. Most of my triggers are late at night before going to bed and I can spend hours either doing my compulsions or lie there thinking about them. I then sleep very little and have little motivation to get up on time for work. It also effects my work in the sense I sometimes worry I’ve done things incorrectly (I work with radiaiotn so it’s important) or that I annoy people when I do something wrong or like to check things. Anyone else?
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I was that way more when I was younger. Life has worn me down, I can usually fight some of it off. I've been trying different sound frequency recordings on YouTube. Some of them help me fall right asleep.
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I’ve tried listening to things also and using different lotions/sprays like lavender and chamomile which do help. For example though once I’ve done my compulsions once or twice say I calm down and quite happily go to bed. It’s right before I go to sleep I feel the urge to get go and check things all over again-is it really just a case of fighting through it?
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@Lolly_97 That's all that's really helped me. Antidepressants take the edge off.
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It strained my friendships a little bit and it killed my appetite for a bit
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I had to quit my job and have been off work for about a month :/
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It messes with almost everything. I've been fighting it for so long, I think I'm doing well, but always wonder if people notice. My friends don't seem to mind. I explain it, some get it, some don't. I've busted at least one person I didn't know exhibiting behavior. I act normal, maybe smile gently. We all need acceptance, very badly.
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I always just barely make it to work by the skin of my teeth even after giving myself 2 hours to get out the door! I can easily spend about 45mins just putting my hair in a simple ponytail that’s perfect enough and almost glued down with loads of hairspray! And I stay at work later than any other teaching assistant way past clock off because I have to organise my classroom and clear some of the cupboard that looks like a bomb site ?
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OCD doesn't take a break just because you have work to do. What are some ways that OCD has popped up for you at your work?
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Hi! I’m new to the NOCD community, but I’ve been dealing with OCD since I was 12. I’m almost 29 now, and my biggest issue is health anxiety. It’s gotten to the point where getting work done is nearly impossible because i can’t stop spiraling. I’m lucky that i work remotely, but also makes it easier to be in my own head… Asking for advice - how do you all deal with the intense anxiety and are able to make it through a 9-5 work day? Any suggestions on how I can actually be productive? Thank you!
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Often times I find myself spiraling out in the morning about all sorts of things. When I try and catch myself and figure out what I am obsessing over it’s like it goes away. I haven’t moved. I have been sitting frozen on the floor because I can’t go to work because I am behind on work and I hate being late and I hate being messy but I am frequently late and my room is cluttered and full of stuff. I want to be good and move and go to work but I don’t know what is coming today and I hate my job so I know I will get bored and when I have nothing to keep me busy and engaged I like start thinking and taking an inventory of what is going on and then I will feel a sensation and what is the sensation? How did it happen? And I know that I will pick up the bad emotions in the office and get contaminated, I was really worried about things like this as a kid too I cried because I had to touch dirt in kindergarten. I know I am this way and I have been this way for a while but at the same time I think I might just be normal and like I don’t know why I get stuck in thinking like this. Then I begin to doubt that OCD is real because everyone has a brain with wiring and everyone gets stuck in thought sometimes. I feel disabled from whatever this is because I am stuck. I literally cannot move because I don’t know what’s wrong and I know I have to go to work even though I feel like every moment I spend there is making everything worse because other people are so stressed and I get it from them. And I don’t feel ready because I just feel off and something is wrong and I just don’t know what to do because if it’s OCD or not OCD everything anyone knows about me is coming from me and I worry that I am often masking all the thinking I’m doing because thinking all the time is rude and inconsiderate and inconvenient for those around me, but I can’t stop. I just don’t feel right, right now - and I want to know WHY?? Why is everything off all the time? How do I even know that I am not making up the experience of OCD in my head to cover up something really wrong with me and now I am taking on the symptoms of OCD like an actress, because this could be something that I can latch onto as a final hope for explaining why I am stuck. So stuck so deeply and terribly stuck sitting on my floor next to my bed just scrolling to avoid thinking because any time I start thinking I am left with no answers or help or anything just this swirly feeling. I know I am trying, maybe not my best, but as much as I possibly can. I want to be a Special Education Teacher but I have so much so so so much doubt and uncertainty about every decision I make and everything I know that I can’t get there right now. I can’t do anything right now until it feels ok and then I will. It never feels ok. I know I have to be ok not feeling ok about it. I can be unsure and still be ok. I know it’s just my thinking and my body but I just can’t get past this feeling. And then I know that because I can calm myself and be ok even though I spent 2 hours of my life today already feeling stuck and spinning around and around and around in my head - I don’t feel sure about my OCD and I think it’s a bit of a scam made up by people to cultivate pathology around deep human thought because one day I might figure it out and we all think a lot.
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