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I also feel that I am constantly wasting or misusing time. If I take a break from school I start to feel guilt y and as if I will be to behind to finish a task.
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Yessssssss.... ? it’s effecting my work. I was looked over for an AP job because of it... “time management” was one of their reasons...and this is the reason why?
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I can relate obsessing with my work over and over again thinking I will do something wrong and I am not good enough a person where I am currently employed and this habitual negative thinking is affecting my work most often and also taking a toll on my health. Sorry for my bad English
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I think I may be starting Luvox. Anyone else tried this?
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I am trying to tell my self “so what” when facing my obsessions. If I don’t finish the work I need to do...what’s the worst that could happen. I get fired? I’ll find another job. Any job that would fire someone over missing a few deadlines is not worth working for. I don’t know if this helps, but I’ve been trying it. It my be a mild compulsion to tell this over and over again but it’s quicker and interferes less.
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Yikes @ahmed... I do the same thing.. like with making phone calls. My therapist gave me a card that says “TAKE ACTION” I put this card in places i will find it when i need to take action... for exposure she had me call for my refill just out of the blue without rehearsing... the anxiety only lasted a short time AND , I didn’t run out of luvox...that month ☺️ so taking action was better than the compulsion of going over and over and over the phone call before I actually made it. That takes a lot... but I would try it more often if I was losing hair... (hair...another obsession)
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@Tijeras do you find that Luvox has any extreme side effects?
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How is it affecting your health?
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I think negative and over thinking causes muscles fatigue, hair Loss, etc
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I’m on luvox! I like @student. What sucks is when you run out... I obsess over making phone calls and rehearse all the possibilities b4 I dial a number so... I often run out????♀️
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None so far... at first I was sleeping well when I took it at night then the more I took at night I wasn’t sleeping... so I started taking it i. The morning... I’ve also gained 10 lbs but it is said NOT to cause weight gain??♀️ I’m also 41 so that could be it? No nausea or headaches though.
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- 19w
Usually my compulsions are always motivated by fear. I feel like a child when I have compulsions. Like for example, my brain convinces me that someone is in my house and I need to open every cabinet and all the shower curtains, and do tons of other crazy things like march instead of walking so that if someone where to shoot at my legs they'd have less of a chance of hitting me. How do I stop it? I am just going about my day and I can see in my head, myself getting attacked or something and so my only option to calm myself down is to do a bunch of random actions that will keep me "safe". Does anyone else experience this? Or convince themselves that they are under Milo Murphys law? That anything bad that can happen to them will, so they need to never do anything that could result in anything bad, and avoid everything? And how do you convince yourself you're not in danger?
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- 18w
I have a lot of compulsions that seem hoarding-esque but I can’t figure out which subtype of OCD they fall under. The two major drivers of this for me seem to be a fear that I will forget about them or the memories attached to them or that the things and their significance will be lost to time, and that I might need or want them in the future. I compulsively make lists of things (ex. things I like, things I don’t like, who I am, the contents of my ideal fridge - very plain with lots of fruit) just in case. I heart nearly every song I hear on Spotify (except the ones I actively strongly dislike, of which there are not many) just in case I will forget about them later on (and because I feel guilty about not hearting the song and supporting the artist if I have no valid reason not to but that’s a whole other can of worms). I have a couple containers of “good” boxes of all shapes and sizes that I’ve collected that, as it turns out, I never actually look at or use. When I was very little, before my family and I knew I had OCD, I had a “sticker book” in which I would put every sticker I ever got - because I didn’t like the idea of putting them on anything that I might lose access to. I even found my mother’s stamps and obsessively put one of each kind in my sticker book (there were soo many, it took me hours). I have trouble letting go of things, especially if I have any sort of memory attached to it whatsoever. Because, my mind says, what if I forget? My camera roll consists, in large part, of an enormous amount of screenshots of far too many little things that I encounter, and it is extremely rare that I actually look back at them. But the other data I was looking for something I thought I took a screenshot of and I couldn’t find it, so this compulsion is back and much worse. On my computer I can’t open the photos app without it crashing and the number of screenshots I have on there is shown in eight digits. I also have tens of thousands of tabs open in my browser at any given moment (I can’t close them, what if I forget?). I really wish I were exaggerating. I also take an excessive amount of photos of many things throughout my day (I counted once and I took 46 pictures of the same tree when I went on a walk). These are just some little examples of how this obsession manifests in me and my life. Does anyone else experience something similar? I’d love to hear about it.
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- 16w
Hey guys just wondering if anyone suffers from this type of OCD. I feel a big struggle to even begin things because it doesn’t feel right or if I resume things it doesn’t feel right. Anyone have any advice ? Thank you
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