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OCD on overdrive

Beefree

Hi....is anyone else experiencing exasperation of OCD at the minute. 

Mine is getting to the point it is having a real impact on my life and my work. 

I get all kinds of OCD but the hardest is the driving/cycling OCD. If I hit a pot hole I think I have run someone over. I have to constantly check I haven't caused an accident....i have to go back and check because I think I have seen someone/something that is injured... Just to find it was a street sign.

In my work I constantly have to check that everyone is ok this even spilling into the weekend. Whilst I do this subtly so people aren't really aware I have to make my boss aware if I don't think someone is and I know this must be getting difficult for them too and I feel so guilty about this. 

I have to check everything when I leave a building sometimes up to 5 times and it can take me 1 hour to leave.

It is exhausting and I am worried the impact it has on those around me... Although I try and hide the vast majority of it.

Anyone else experience this can anyone help? 

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  • I have this tendency too. Not quite to the same degree, but I can understand how exhausting it can be. After living with this for decades, I realise that I have developed quite a few coping strategies Those strategies seem to involve something that might be labelled mindfulness, meditation or self-hypnosis; but I really prefer to handle most things quite informally, and without too many overt labels. But perhaps you need things to to be a bit more orchestrated than myself.

    I have been told that hypnotherapy (and other therapies) can be used to rewire people's responses. That might involve say, keeping some sort of constant record of your transactions and decisions, that can be referred to avoid constantly redoing safety checks. But you may need some help to convince yourself that this approach is adequate. You might also need some co-operation and understanding from an employer and/or colleagues. Always supposing, of course, that they are already informed. (But some people may often have already noticed.)

    We're not really supposed to do endorsements here. And I haven't personally experienced such an intervention. But I do have a UK group in mind if you want to PM me. I might have resorted to them myself, but alas I'm in another country; and one which really doesn't want to know. The appeal of this group for me is that they believe that only two or three therapy sessions are often necessary. And in my case, I tend to just read their literature and  figure out how to do it for myself. But it would be good, occasionally, to experience some guidance (And I am of the opinion that therapists should guide rather than influence or control.)

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  • I have this tendency too. Not quite to the same degree, but I can understand how exhausting it can be. After living with this for decades, I realise that I have developed quite a few coping strategies Those strategies seem to involve something that might be labelled mindfulness, meditation or self-hypnosis; but I really prefer to handle most things quite informally, and without too many overt labels. But perhaps you need things to to be a bit more orchestrated than myself.

    I have been told that hypnotherapy (and other therapies) can be used to rewire people's responses. That might involve say, keeping some sort of constant record of your transactions and decisions, that can be referred to avoid constantly redoing safety checks. But you may need some help to convince yourself that this approach is adequate. You might also need some co-operation and understanding from an employer and/or colleagues. Always supposing, of course, that they are already informed. (But some people may often have already noticed.)

    We're not really supposed to do endorsements here. And I haven't personally experienced such an intervention. But I do have a UK group in mind if you want to PM me. I might have resorted to them myself, but alas I'm in another country; and one which really doesn't want to know. The appeal of this group for me is that they believe that only two or three therapy sessions are often necessary. And in my case, I tend to just read their literature and  figure out how to do it for myself. But it would be good, occasionally, to experience some guidance (And I am of the opinion that therapists should guide rather than influence or control.)

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