Can’t focus

Hey! I am going through the SAME exact thing right now. I thought it was burnout. I am such a high achiever usually. I feel like I can literally do anything at all. I have been physically sick for weeks thinking I was losing my damn mind. I mean not eating for days, throwing up, horrible diarrhea, my body shaking, googling every single thing trying to see what’s wrong with me. It never clicked that it could just be ocd and I could be stuck in a loop. I quit my last job and started a new one and literally still cannot focus on anything. I finally went to the doctor yesterday and begged for an antidepressant to hopefully make me calm down since I always have anxiety anyway which is what sent me into this spiral I think. Just scheduled two therapy appointments as well. Let’s get through this!!! Idk if there’s a way to dm me on here but if there is, please feel free. I’d love to connect with someone going through the same thing so I don’t feel so alone.

I totally understand you and feel you it’s debilitating :( . We should all continue to lean on each other. You can reach out me

I share this exactly. But remember that people with OCD can be perfectionists and you don’t need to be at full capacity to do a job well

Same here, this is exactly what I’m dealing with, especially today. I have adhd too and the burnout from both, and worrying about my career is so exhausting. I feel this same anger because it feels like I’m hitting a brick wall everyday instead of doing what I need to do. I meet with small businesses daily as my job so just know you’re not alone in this worry! I can see how OCD can exacerbate this worry even more. It’s a doozy for sure.

same im going through a very difficult time

Same exact thing here. For a long time I genuinely just couldn’t do anything, but over time I saw how badly letting OCD stop me from achieving things was impacting me. It was making my OCD worse even because now on top of the thoughts I was having that took the focus away, now I had the guilt of “not being strong enough” to overcome them to achieve my goals. I made a vow to myself that I would never let my OCD get in the way of my goals, bc if in the future I havent achieved a goal of mine because of my OCD, I know i’ll hate myself. It took a long time, but consistently just telling myself that I’ll “think about this later” has helped allow me to focus on other things while in the midst of another round of OCD thinking. It allows your brain a half-satisfaction of knowing that you WILL think about it, but that it just will be delayed. I think a big part of when you delay it in your mind is to know that you’re safe, to try to think as logically and non-ocd influenced as you can to know that not thinking about this thought right this second will not cause me harm, and that it is okay to wait on it for a little bit. It’s not fool proof, of course ive had my moments where the thoughts are still too commanding for me to push them aside, but as time as gone on, it works more and more. I hope this helps. You can do this.

I’ve just been diagnosed with ocd and finished my career change and am applying for my first job after…I never know if I actually want the job or not - what’s the ocd and what’s my actually feeling? So exhausting, I sometimes don’t know what to do..