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- zoed
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Yes, I've dealt with the same struggle. It's like the OCD wants to take away your freedom or free time. It's trying to strip you of enjoyment. I have felt this way on countless weekends, vacations and holidays. I've gotten so sick of it as well and in turn have used that as motivation to trying to my ERP therapy. It is hard when you see others enjoying their weekends and It is a struggle for yourself. Remind yourself that you deserve to have a peaceful few days, and allow that to give you motivation to focus on your OCD recovery.
I totally get it! I work in education and I used to teach summer school just so I had a routine during the summer as I didn't know what to do with myself during that time. Meanwhile my colleagues were out enjoying themselves and their families. Now I work 12 months out of the year still within education but in a different field and sometimes I wonder if my OCD pushed me to make that change. I thrive on a schedule but it's hard to enjoy the free time with OCD. It gives me motivation to know more people feel the same
Ocd loves structure. I used to enjoy like weekends and vacations and now it’s like “more time to think muahahahha”. You are not alone and this seems to be very common. My ocd is quieter when I’m busy. I guess we need to keep leaning into discomfort and take our weekends back!
Feeling the same too! Sending love and healing to you ♥️
Weekends are the worst for me or days off work 😭 I have summers off as a teacher and I dread it because of my ocd.
That's a great way to put it!
Guys I'm scared. It was finals week this last week, so I've had to do a lot of studying and preparing for tests. This has kept my mind busy and my ocd hasn't been nearly as bad as it's been. Now that the week is over, I fear my ocd will get exponential worse, as it tends to do when I get bored or have nothing to do. Any tips? I feel like forcing myself to be busy will just make it worse, because then I'd be using it as a compulsion.
I feel like this is a ridiculous question, but Ive thought quite a bit about it so here goes. I have a hard time having hobbies or knowing what I want. Whenever there is time off I spend most of my time with OCD (sad). But I also spend quite a bit of time wondering about what Im gonna do, what I want to, what my dreams are. For the longest time I figured out what I wanted by reading about what others do and feeling like I should do the same. And mostly I do passive things because I never seem to figure out what I should do. Or what I "really want". Can this be an obsession about spending my time right? I had a hard time wording this the way I wanted to. But just putting it out there in case anyone relates and knows how to pin point it better. It is as is thinking about this eludes me.
i’m not sure if this is an ocd thing or just an anxiety thing but i find it very hard to sit comfortably with being not anxious. i used to be involved in a lot of stressful/anxiety inducing relationships or situations in the past and now i’m in really good relationships with friends and my life is a lot less stressful but my brain is stuck in that anxious zone. if i have a good week and i think my life is going really well then the next week i start overthinking everything and searching for something to be wrong and then i make myself anxious over these problems that don’t even exist. it’s like i can’t relax because i expect something bad to happen. i’m not sure if many others have this issue but any advice is appreciated
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