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- 7y
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- 7y
Maybe but it may be good to try as you may surprise yourself that you're okay!
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- 7y
Yeah I completely understand what you mean. The exams themselves aren’t really a trigger of my OCD. It’s more that I’ve been so consumed by obsessions/compulsions lately that I’ve been unable to study. I’m worried my marks aren’t going to be a reflection of what I know, rather a reflection of how my mental illness has prevented me from preparing. I don’t want all my hard work to go down the drain because of stupid OCD ? Thanks for being supportive Cjx, you have no idea how much it means! d a i s y
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- 7y
Hey Daisy, like cjx said, just give it a go and see what happens! You never know! And I did ultra crappy on my exams in high school and still have a really successful career! So it’s not totally the end of the world anyways!
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- 7y
One thing used to work for me is that keeping on study when those obsessions show and gradually you will show yourself that you can study even with obsessions. It’s really important to remember your strength and what you really want.
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- 7y
Let me share my experience with the 4-hours grueling GRE exam. I can barely concentrate but I did push through. My math score fluctuated a lot. And I’m gonna take if for the third time. You can take GRE 5 times maximum a year, I will keep trying every 21 days :) If you care about something, you will get there. I got this, you got this too.
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- 7y
What kind of exams are they? Can you ask for extra time? If you get a doctors note confirming your OCD diagnosis
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I’m in my final year of high school, so they’re a part of my HSC. I have special provisions, which mean I get rest breaks and sit my exams in a separate room to everyone else. I’ve provided paperwork from my doctors and psychologist to the Board of Studies stating my diagnosis. I’m thinking I’m just going to have to get a certificate to say I’m exempt from sitting my exams? d a i s y
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- 7y
The great thing about OCD is that with a doctor’s permission and diagnosis you can actually get extra time on tests. Tests are awful for some people when you have OCD I totally get it, but if you talk to your teacher and get a doctor to help you you can get extra time on the exams if they allow that (which most schools do depending on the test)
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- 7y
OCD is telling you that you can’t do it. But actually you can. It’s just you are so troubled by the fear of “can’t”. I got OCD and finished college better than anyone. I was filled with the fear of “can’t” and the imagined consequences. It was painful. But, it seems you can really start recovery only when you don’t have any choice but to face it head on.
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- 7y
Thank you so much Shannon_tan for that glimpse of hope! I really needed it. All the best for your exams! d a i s y
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- 7y
Thank you all so much for your support and advice!! I’ll definitely speak to my teachers and doctors and see what they have in mind! Hope everyone’s day was wonderful. d a i s y
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- 7y
I’ve had this happen many times. It happened through the entire course of finals and the ACT. I heard you can ask for a doctors note if you say you have OCD to prolong your time. I didnt do that I just made sure I had extra sleep and used reading as a distraction.
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- 24w
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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- 20w
I had avoided a lot with school specifically, but I did do it in other areas of life as well. School for some reason has been the biggest trigger that sends me into avoidance and it has been for the longest time. Does anybody relate? If so, what did you do to help besides therapy? In high school I used to sit in the bathroom stalls for hours so I could avoid going to classes. I was struggling to keep up because my OCD makes me perfect my school work so much so to the point where I’d never turn it in because I’d never be satisfied with what I’d produce. I’d get so incredibly frustrated with myself and the fact that I could never meet my own standards, never mind the rubrics given. I took ages analyzing all my writing, all my answers, all my google slides and I burnt myself out. So I stopped trying. I stopped turning in work because I’d never be satisfied. I’d cry because I felt I wasn’t good enough. Then I’d be missing assignments, getting them done but not submitting them because I was too ashamed. So, I avoided classes because I’d be in trouble or be called out for not getting anything done. Unfortunately this habit bled into my first year of college last year, and OCD coupled up with depression, made going to the dining hall and attending classes even worse. So I avoided it all together. It’s so hard being a freshman in college, so so hard. I unfortunately failed out of that school but I tried to medically withdraw either semester. No, I wasn’t partying, or drinking or smoking or hanging with the wrong people. I was a college freshman struggling with ocd and depression. I’m trying to not make excuses for myself either because I’m well aware this is my fault and I’m trying to reverse it now at community college. Right now I’m trying to get those Fs turned into Ws from my old school so I can fix my gpa. I want to transfer, I want to be a forensic psychologist, I want to be independent, I want to be ok. It’s gonna take me so long to transfer from community college but that’s on me. I’m willing to put in the work. I’m so embarassed, please help me.
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- 14w
Does this happen with you also, just few days or a month before exams ocd tends to increase so much that you can't study even when you sit with books after meditating and with a calm mind. Please tell me how to get out of this anxious feeling and study in a normal course. It is becoming harder day by day for me to get out of this.
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