OCDeeezzz
The Perfect Friend of Depression
OCD is… OCD can be… OCD deals with… NO! NO! NO! None of these are right! It needs to be perfect! Well, guess what? It doesn’t need to be perfect and more than likely it is right. OCD brings about the most annoying thoughts you will ever have. It’s like your mom telling you 50 times to make sure the stove is off before you leave the house. With each time, you go back to check knowing it’s off.
OCD comes in a ton of colors, but you better believe they are color coded. Sometimes you may feel you need to wash your hands every thirty minutes. Maybe you check that the door is locked by wiggling the handle 60 times before you leave the house. Or maybe you must touch every religious picture in your house three times when you wake up. Okay, that last one is a bit specific because that was the way I fulfilled my OCD.
Now that we have established how utterly annoying OCD is, let's delve into more (annoying) aspects of this mental cage fight.
Let’s start with the thoughts of, “I need to do blank or something bad will happen.”
A lot of people feel they need to do some elaborate, intricate set of movements in order to prevent a future event from occurring. Even though we know flickering the light switch five times won’t prevent a car crash we will still do it because “what if?” What if I could have prevented a car crash if I just flickered the lights five times? There are other reasons people do the OCD dance, but they all make us feel good when it is completed. These beliefs are so strong a person can spend half the day doing these rituals just to make the thoughts stop.
It is a constant nagging, “DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!”
There is nothing more you want to do than to yell at yourself to “SHUT UP!”
Buy OCD and get intrusive thoughts for free! What a deal! Have you ever been at a dinner with friends and a random thought pops into your head?
Ohhh, I don’t know, something like “What if I jump on the table and start yelling ‘give me blueberries.’”
Now, why the heck would I do that or even think of doing that? Well, the answer is OCD is a jerk with its random pop-ups. The first time I had an intrusive thought I was sitting in my seventh grade classroom and all of a sudden, I became uneasy with the thoughts that were running through my head. If anyone is suffering with intrusive thoughts know that it is just that, a thought. I will say that you are not crazy, and they will pass.
Even though there are a ton of thoughts running through the mind of someone with OCD, it does take its toll and should be taken seriously. I don’t mean to turn into a Serious Suzan, but I feel when the topic of OCD is mentioned it is not taken with as much care as other mental illness. I can understand why it is not as equal on the chart of mental illnesses. Of course, no one should rank mental illness, but you know people out there do.
We all need to take into account how different mental roller coasters effect those who are on the ride. Not everyone will experience the same aspects of OCD, but every aspect can be helped. I am not a Doc and I don’t expect anyone to take my advice. If anyone out there can no longer take the thoughts OCD pushes on you, consider therapy, medication, heck, even exercise. I would never push a program upon anyone and in the end, you need to do what is best for you.
Ending note: You are not your OCD and the thoughts it brings. You are only passing through it.
About the Creator
Kris Caldwell
Lets talk about yo brain and how we can get better. The talk of the types of mental illness in a funnyish way.
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