Do any of you have any ocd related issues?
Ever since I was a child I’ve had “checking ocd” like checking if the heaters off or the water or keys or locks or if I see a part in a movie that I maybe didn’t quite see I have to rewind it and see it or it will nag at me forever.
But I usually check things 3 times and sometimes 6 times. If I’m stressed I do that sorta thing more often. It’s really annoying.
Like if the tap is turn off and I see it. I will tap the hot and cold handles 3 times and even check underneath the faucet before I leave.
I’ve been trying to train myself not to do it but it is tough.
If you don’t give into the compulsion to do something, eventually you stop obsessing. Will be really uncomfortable for a couple weeks, first 3 days are excruciating really. This worked great for me. I no longer have any anxiety about the old hang ups. I journaled all the complaints throughout the process just making note of how this would look to someone else as rule on rational/irrational.
Not usually OCD but experiencing a bit of it over the weighing while trying to lose weight . Am quite obsessive about checking for emails/new forum or facebook/twitter posts.
Yes. Just before leaving the house, I check for my keys, wallet and phone. Especially keys. And I do so several times in row, only seconds apart. It’s senseless to me, it is not as if I did not recall the outcome of the first check only seconds later. But this seems to be all of it, so it seems quite harmless.
I do believe some sense can be made of ocd like behavior, as a manifestation to a local loss that becomes global in sz. I for one am not surprised to see it being co-morbid with sz.
when you are over tired and stressed…ocd amps up…as do other symptoms.
ocd for me , in my opinion, is a fear of the future…
you are by your repetitive actions trying to control an outcome…
thus ridding yourself of fear in general…eases or gets rid of the issue (s)
take care
I used to have horrible OCD. I was hospitalized twice for it. Meds made it worse, probably because of my underlying psychosis. CBT was absolute torture for me. What worked was fifteen minutes of biofeedback a week. There’s a really expensive machine you can buy, or you can just get the game Mind Flex. It’s about 100$ instead of thousands.
You navigate a floating ball through an obstacle course using a sensor attached to your head that measures the thermal output of your prefrontal cortex. You have to stay in a state of relaxed concentration while doing something designed to frustrate you. Over time, it teaches you to keep your rational thinking activated during times when it would normally shut down, such as when OCD behaviors are pushing at your mind. Then, it becomes much easier to ignore the impulses.
I suffer from intrusive thoughts which is a form of OCD. It has been going on for a couple of years. But my former pdoc say they are completely normal, what a relief. I try not to take them too seriously even though it is difficult sometimes. The more i stress out the worse it becomes. I just try to quiet my brain.
CBT does have a fair track record with OCD, but not when it is co-morbid with psychosis. CBT depends upon a reliable capacity to apply logic, and in the severely psychotic, that is often not the case. Standard CBT did NOT work for me in the 1990s. I had to turn to REBT – when I was leveled out enough on meds to do so in 2004 – which is a more direct and in-your-face version of CBT (it’s “applied critical thinking,” actually; I was so illogical I had to be taught how to reason).
That said, the mindfulness based cognitive therapies are usually more effective for OCD, and the even newer sensory-experiential therapies may be better yet because they go straight at the source of the problem.
For me the unwanted thoughts would be a problem. I guess it would really suck to have something like HIV OCD and paedophilia OCD(which I have had).
Obsessing about it and stretching feelings into irrational conclusions can be problematic. I used to worry that I was a paedophile because I was thinking that child is handsome or pretty when a more rational me says it’s human nature to make value judgements and not indicative of any perverse feelings.
I’ve found being on a regular antipsychotic has virtually curbed such and other obsessively irrational/weird thoughts.
