Please comment on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

by compound complex 34 Replies latest jw friends

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  wha happened?

  my help has been a product called 5-htp
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  cameo-d

  Oh man! You're bringing up a lot of stuff lately!

  I don't know if this is OCD...maybe you can tell me.

  This happened many years ago. I had a dog. One day I left for work. When I got to work, I just had a weird feeling I cannot explain. I left and went back home. I arrived to find several fire engines in the alley. I had to park half block away and ran past the fireman to my apt. I did not know where exactly the fire was--there was smoke everywhere. All I could think was that my dog was inside and I had to get to her.

  It turned out it was the building connected to mine. (It was unoccupied floor over a business where supplies, chemicals, etc were stored.) My apt. was in danger of being burned as the fire was traveling rapidly. (The buildings were brick.)

  Coco, I can't say exactly when my "OCD" started (if that's what it was) but it was not long afterward that I realized it was becoming inconvenient as my weirdness of "checking and re-checking"...getting half way to a destination and then turning around and going back home, just to make sure everything was OK. This went on for years! (Not all the time, but more frequently than what I would consider "normal") I had never been like that before.

  I think I gradually outgrew it. I can only remember once in the past couple of years turning around to go back home to check things.

  I haven't thought about all this in a long time. I think when my dog died (ripe old age) that that's when I began to grow out of that compulsion of worry or whatever it was. She was just the most precious thing to me.

  Can OCD occur with frequency but not be consistent on a daily basis? Would you say this was OCD?
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  wobble

  If you or a loved one really are suffering because of this, I would recommend proper therapy, e.g Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

  A couple of usefull workbooks"The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook" and "The OCD workbook" "Your guide to breaking free from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" are usefull information- wise,both available from Amazon. (Info came from "Rebel 8" of this board)

  Love

  Wobble
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  oompa

  I have it over jw issues

  and so does anyone else who has posted here over 3000 times.................oompa

  well...not just jw issues but how it has effected my life during and after....

  and maybe not 3000 times, but even 1000 times....oompa

  jw issues are all invasive, dress, job, sex, marriage

  so you may be obsessive if you think of jw things ten times a day....oompa

  jw issues are just so hard to let go for many...

  so maybe ocd is in order if it goes up to 5000 posts a day....oompa

  jw issues are just sooo fluckkin in your head all the time....

  so maybe if you even think about jw stuff three times a day you are occ?........oompa

  geeze i wish i could let this jw issue crap go!

  but maybe it is just normal to think about it 24/7...............................get the picture?.............oompa
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  rebel8

  It's quite common to have an obsession or two, that's not OCD.

  Diagnostic Criteria for OCD

  I am uncomfortable if my spices are not in alphabetical order, though there are other things in my house that are in disarray and I'm not the least concerned.

  I watch the ground so closely when walking that I'm knnown for finding interesting items. I'm really doing it because I feel a need to equalize the number of cracks I step on with the left and right feet. I don't let myself act on this thought, I just live with the discomfort. :D
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  oompa

  hahah........beat ya to it elsewhere!...........oompa
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  doofdaddy

  Intersesting.... I challenged all habits after leaving jws....

  This blew my ego away, so I understood the humanity in conscious habit but the devil is in unconscious repetition.

  Awareness in action!!
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  Heaven

  I had to give it up long ago... I didn't have time for it!
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  chickpea

  the behaviours manifested by
  people with an OCD Dx are
  irrational compulsions...

  a mate of mine from a forum
  supporting adult survivors of
  childhood sexual abuse has
  tremendous difficulties and
  is unable to work because of it......

  quite sad really....

  my one, ok, two compulsive
  issues that i am actually finding
  are becoming less and less obsessive
  as i get deeper into my genuine life....

  1) i count, specifically elements
  of spoken language.... sentences in paragraphs,
  words in sentences, letters in words.....
  and it really REALLY is uncomfortable
  for me when the count ends on an even number

  2) i "write" on my thumbnail with my index finger...
  ambidextriously, when someone is talking or i am
  deep in thought, spelling out the words they are
  saying or that i am thinking.....

  nothing about these practices intereferes
  with my quality of life, and i have few friends
  who actually notice.... one in particular always
  asks: what are you writing? ....