Career Choosing and OCD

Wondering if any other young adults/ students have a hard time with figuring out what they wanna do for their careers and having OCD latch to that? I found science and psychology in undergrad super fun interesting. Now thinking about real world implication of a field where let’s just say working as a therapist or in genetics or healthcare or pretty much anything that I once found intellectually stimulating now makes me anxious and spiral. Any one relate/ have advice?

Thoughtful_c...

Date posted: 17h

I went from cybersecurity to business to psychology, got an associate in psychology, got a degree is cosmetology, then wanted to be a respiratory therapist, then chose healthcare management

Madancer90

Date posted: 17h

@Thoughtful_chicken oh wow! does ur ocd latch to those that it’s making u switch or are you just navigating different interests? I totally understand the changing a lot process though

Anonymous

Date posted: 17h

Yup. I recently came to the landing point that I can't be a teacher (at least for right now) because it feeds into my OCD symptoms too much. It's hard to address a contamination fear if you work with 12+ walking germ magnets every day, AND you have a checklist a mile long telling you how to prevent contamination. 😬

Madancer90

Date posted: 17h

@Anonymous awwww I’m so sorry to hear that.! I think there’s a decent amount of careers i wouldn’t consider as a result of my contamination ocd. If you didn’t have this theme, do you think you’d become a teacher or are there other reasons you’d prefer not to choose that route? What are you looking to do now?

Thoughtful_c...

Date posted: 17h

Absolutely I’ve changed my degree so many times I can’t make a decision

Madancer90

Date posted: 17h

@Thoughtful_chicken hey! thank you for sharing :) what degrees and careers if you don’t mind me asking?

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