OCD thoughts affect the most you love
you are scared for your family, kids, parents
You are scared for your work, memory and efficiency
You are worried for your own health
you will start doubting yourself.
You will start having questions, images, thoughts, commands, urges, sensations and feelings
These thoughts can be of the themes also can come in Sexual, Harm, Suicidal,
How bad can OCD be?
You feel like a failure in school and work
mind stuck on the same thought?
nobody can understand how bad you are feeling
Strong feeling that you will never be able to enjoy life again
Religious recurrent OCD thoughts
excess searching for religious matter
always asking others to seek re-assurance
trying to figure out unanswerable questions
avoiding personal question?
OCD and existential fears
Existential OCD is causes a preoccupation with philosophical questions related to life and existence. The uncertainty associated with those questions can make this debilitating.
These can cause
always thinking meaning of life
always uncertain about future
repetitive thoughts of future
recurrent philosophical and frightening thoughts
Fear of being alone
Monophobia is the fear of being alone. This can lead to obsessive thoughts and overthinking, constant worrying, poor concentration can manifest in various ways. This causes constant worrying, anxiety, over-thinking
Being apart from a particular person
- Being home alone
- Being in public by yourself
- Feeling isolated or ignored
- Experiencing danger while alone
- Living alone
- Loneliness
- Always calling your children and husband if they are safe
- Always waiting for husband’s phone call if they have reached office
- Always watching the clock when children have gone out for party
- Always calling adolescent kids if they have reached college or they have left from college
This can cause
- Dizziness, fainting, or nausea while alone
- Experiencing intense anxiety
- Feeling anxious when thinking about being alone
- Increased heartbeat, tightness in the chest, and trouble breathing while alone
- Panic attacks
- Problems to maintain healthy relationships
- Always worrying for worse situations if they are left alone
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Procrastination is the act of delaying or putting off tasks until the last minute, or past their deadline.
Perfectionism causes delay in tasks
Avoidance of uncomfortable tasks
Mentally and physically exhausted due to Perfectionism
Rituals eating in time to complete task
Perfectionism and OCD
OCS and brain fog
Your thoughts and emotion feeling numb
feeling of zero mind energy
difficulty in concentration
feeling distracted
not able to think clearly
less mind sharpness
brain fog can worsen OCD. This may lead to anxiety, which can cause mind exhaustion and mind fatigue. Even the thought of mind fatigue can lead to brain fog, making concentration and focus difficult, further worsening stress and anxiety.
In those who also have anxiety, there is flurry of mind leading to mind exhaustion. Brain fod can lead to reduced alertness and reduced mind processing speed. This reduction in efficiency worsens the anxiety
Whenever there is persistent stress, there is persistently elevated stress hormone such as cortisol, which causes brain exhaustion
OCD, Perfectionism and Procrastination
Procrastination is the act of delaying or putting off tasks until the last minute, or past their deadline.
Perfectionism causes delay in tasks
Avoidance of uncomfortable tasks
Mentally and physically exhausted due to Perfectionism
Rituals eating in time to complete task
Perfectionism and OCD
Obsession with time
Pre-occupation with numbers
Always counting minutes
Always watching clock
Always in a hurry.
OCD and health
Spending excessive time researching health
Desperately trying to find answers to minor health concerns
Constantly feeling the need of minor health changes in body
Believing doctors have missed something
Ways in which we hide OCD
I am distracted because of difficult work times
I don’t drive I prefer to walk or cycle
I had to go back and check I forgot my purse
You spend a lot of time in bathroom
Couldn’t you pls repeat the question, I didn’t hear
I am late Family emergency
How OCD can take the fun out of your life?
Not wanting to do anything out of your comfort zone
Always latching to the things you care about
Cancelling plans due to fear of ocd getting worse
Time consuming compulsion
Always hypervigilant
low confidence and OCD
Being unable to tolerate doubt
Needing other to confirm or disprove your suspicions
Excess discomfort when outcome cannot be predicted
Always obsessed to gain new information
alcohol and OCD
Drinking alcohol to stop repetitive thoughts
Alcohol is used as an escape mechanism
Avoiding alcohol entirely causes opposite effect
Alcohol causes false memory obsession
OCD, obsession and compulsions in day-to-day life
Repeating words in mind
Always thinking for worse-case scenario
Always reviewing memories
Recurrent thinking whenever you have a bad thought?
