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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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  • https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200720-what-the-mysterious-boredom-divide-teaches-us

    Saw this, this morning, and reckon it is an appropriate topic for this forum's perusal; especially as I usually see my love of repetition as a positive. My line has long been, "Well, someone might as well enjoy doing those essential things that others loathe!".

    I really would prefer to be in the backroom at work. I realised very young that I was not really cut out for mass public performance. So I have always been more of a clumsy artisan than an artist. I just about managed to perform as a teacher to fairly small audiences for many years; but when the opportunity arose to retire, I went for it like a shot. It was the scrutiny of colleagues that most put me on edge. I constantly felt like an imposter.

    It's true, nevertheless, that I sometimes crave a little bit more recognition. I suppose that makes me a covert narcissist  And that's not a huge surprise. I've thought for a long time that I might have some of those almost untacklable narcissistic traits, judging by people's frequent negative reactions. But that is my way of enjoying life. It isn't monolithic, because I also love frequent changes of scenery within which to pursue my version of contented boredom. It certainly wouldn't look good on a CV. I've written a few good ones in my time, but they have rarely been really read, as I have attended few employment interviews. No big surprise there either. I made my own bed, and so I have to live with it. it's a tendency that can easily lead to exploitation. Hence, I suppose the need for fairly regular moves. But I do at least 'finish' those things that I set out to bore into submission.

  • in reply to Senor

    Thanks I liked the article.... I am a big fan of monotony and repetition. For example I like chopping and stacking logs I can happily do this for a full 12 hour day..... It is my idea of a perfect day. 

    The NAS information was good it helped differentiate in my mind the repetitive things I do to calm and make me feel good and my obsessions and compulsions which have the opposite effect and leave me exhausted. 

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  • in reply to Senor

    Thanks I liked the article.... I am a big fan of monotony and repetition. For example I like chopping and stacking logs I can happily do this for a full 12 hour day..... It is my idea of a perfect day. 

    The NAS information was good it helped differentiate in my mind the repetitive things I do to calm and make me feel good and my obsessions and compulsions which have the opposite effect and leave me exhausted. 

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