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I was thinking about this kind of thing at work. The amount of detail those with OCD think about is unbelievable.
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I used to do this as well. What "OCD Theme" would this fall under? If anybody knows please tell me
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Therapy is the best thing? They always tell me what I already know, reaffirmation isn’t helpful. At best they have provided a different angle to look at things. I smile and nod, but they are little more than sounding boards.
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Sometimes. I usually raise my eyebrows to force it up and out of my head.
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Don’t listen to Liability by Lorde when you’re sad too it makes it worse
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Yes! I think it's an anxiety thing maybe? Like a "flight, fight, or play dead" response to perceived danger. In our case our brain tells us to play dead because it perceived the task as a threat or something.
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Google Narcolepsy, a friend of mine have it. It's like ADHD but instead of driving to other activities ou feel sleepy and tired
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Awesome job! I used to struggle too!
I actually learned I was putting TOO MUCH TOOTHEPASTE on my toothbrush!
Apparently a pea sized amount is appropriate.
This stopped irritating my tongue. I also chose aim toothpaste that wasn’t super duper powerful tasting.
Maybe this will help others struggling. :)
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I wanted to say I relate to this so hard. I actually spoke to my therapist about it this week as I’ve been really struggling and she said, “Real or fake, it’s real to you. What does it really matter.” Of course my OCD wants to scream “Of course you would say that fake-dream-illusion therapist!”
I feel like recently movies and television are really playing on the ideas of these alternate realities and it can makes things even more difficult for someone who struggles.
Anyway, just wanted to say, keep on swimming man, you are not alone in your fight.
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I just can't win in any scenario.
This is so tiring.
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Interesting, my hand washing compulsion comes and goes too. My Lexapro helped with it a lot, but I can tell when it’s not cutting it because my anxiety brings compulsions back.
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If you have OCD, and you are expending any mental energy getting angry about people for posting this, you are not focusing on your own mental health properly.
*edit* and since I see that so many of you unnecessarily freak out when you see things like this, why the holy #%^* do you share them with each other? Why are you trying to make each other mad about something you can’t control that in no way affects your condition?
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Wait, hating how your hair feels on your face and how clothes feel on your body is an adhd thing? God damn
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Lol my therapy is always at 3 and my work always starts at 4, maybe that's why I'm depressed and freaking out all the time that I have no time
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This really pisses me off. I was diagnosed with OCD and depression by a psychiatrist. I hear people all the time laughing saying "Oh I guess I"m OCD cause I always keep my desk clean" when talking about theirself. No Karen you don't have OCD. You're just a piece of crap. If you had OCD you wouldn't be able to function because you couldn't find the EXACT 3 pens that MUST be on your desk because if they aren't on your desk you can not KNOW where they are even if you know you must have put them in a drawer. THAT is OCD Karen. Having to lock the door at least 30 times otherwise it's not REALLY locked is OCD. Spending all that time and going through all the pain of your own brain SCREAMING at you that something is WRONG even when you just did it. THAT is OCD.
Now this card. This card is offensive. This card is a slap in the face of anyone with OCD or really any mental illness. This company is saying your pain and your struggle is a joke. Your pain is to be laughed at. Please post the name of this company, I want to make sure I NEVER buy any of their products.
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This is why I personally believe it is a spectrum disorder. In order of severity : ADHD, Aspergers, Autism.
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i had never considered it because i am ALWAYS so tired. couldn’t be adhd if i’m the opposite of hyperactive, right? (wrong)
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I've learnt that saying out loud "locked" is really helpful. The worst is when I'm in autopilot mode leaving home for work and I just can't remember. I've been late for work so many times because of walking back to check.
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CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I had enough for a platinum award, I'd give it to you.
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That's painfully accurate. Gave me a laugh nevertheless - humour is the best way to deal with it, I guess... (well, and therapy. Lots of therapy.)
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Dieting took a heavy hit for me today. I gotta do better tomorrow. The bad thing is that I need to keep my food in my own room, else the person I share a flat with just steals and eats it.
I thought I was well stocked with frozen goods for the current crisis. Turns out that he has been eating my emergency supplies for weeks.
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Thanks so much for this. I hate those posts and struggle with them a lot. I love dogs and this actually gives me such an amazing tool to defeat those thought loops. Bless your soul!
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I’m in high school and I want to go into film. For my tv production project this quarter I want to do a “morning routine with ocd” video. I had always wanted to do something like that and I finally think I’m ready to :)
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I take my meds everyday! Or else I can’t function. I just wish that the meds would work 24 hours instead of retaking every 4 hours. I hate fact that it works for certain hours and you crash. Have they not thought of how awful it is for some one with ADHD???
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I know how you feel, I didn't always brush my teeth too. You can be very proud of you! ❤
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I saw somebody that said that in order to manifest something, you have to do more than just think about it. Like, you have to actually do the thing that you’re manifesting... doesn’t that just ruin the whole idea of manifestation lmao
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Fell into a depression a couple of years ago. Didn’t know I had ADHD at the time, but I got depressed due to being undiagnosed. I finally got help in the form of a low dose of meds, therapy and sick leave from work. Considering the circumstances I really got back on my feet rather quickly. I didn’t quite understand why this was. Fast forward to know, I’ve just been diagnosed, and everything make sense now.
During my sick leave I had NO obligations. I was renting an appartement but decided to stay with my parents for two weeks and then my boyfriend. They took care of me and I just had to focus on resting and getting better. Taking the pressure off and having zero responsibility really helped me. The adhd symptoms weren’t that bad then because I didn’t have to fight them. I could just be me, 100% me. People wanted me to be me again, it was even expected. I needed to be my weird chaotic self again. Slowly I added more responsibility again and went back to work. Therapy really helped me be kinder to myself. Getting the adhd diagnosis afterwards was the last missing piece of the puzzle.
I’m wishing all of you the best! It can get better, it really can
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Fuck i just realized i am really a tractor and my whole life is a lie
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I have imposter syndrome for literally every ailment I have, including the physical, visibly apparent ones... doesn’t really make sense, but neither does anything else my brain does
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I…didn't know other people had this problem. Thanks for giving me hope :)
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Always! It’s had and frustrating. I honestly forget that they are intrusive thoughts tied to my OCD so I take it on as my fault too often. I just try to ask for clarification from that person or i want to start to write down my thoughts and feelings and file them away or toss them so they can work their way out of my system
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This is amazing. Thank you so much. I am very good at doing the Jim smile.
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I cannot recommend more of this schedule, it makes me more productive than the school day I think.
https://reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/fn3mh5/i_made_a_schedule_to_help_everyone_with_adhd/
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legit like post this every once in a while, im going to keep forgetting I just know it. Don't have time to do it right now, so I'm gonna save it to look at later XD
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lately it gets so bad that i can't focus or even think at all until i nap for at least a little but then i oversleep for way too long and then those assignments have to be turned in late. it makes me wonder how am i going to get through college and fulfill my career??
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It's hard because I always saw myself as a really easy going, chilled and friendly person, but the past years (only got diagnosed last year) I've noticed I'm getting irritated and overstimulated more and more quickly and it's getting harder to just ignore and power through. I don't want to be mean and moody but I'm seeing myself become it more often
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I've had multiple teachers in the past that said I was really good at writing. It got to a point where some teachers started talking about me among themselves. At times, I could write essays/reports in 3/4 to half the time my neurotypical counterparts could.
I've had multiple managers that said I was really good at writing emails, but always with a hint of bewilderment. So, I'm not sure whether to be flattered or insulted there lol
But similar to you, talking for me is kind of rough at times. My brain's already a step ahead of me. I sometimes say things before I've had time to process it into something coherent cause I already understand it well before it's coherent enough.
Then there's times where I talk too much, be it vocal or written...
It's 1 of the reasons why I prefer dealing with customers over email instead of phone/in person.
After reading this & some of the comments, I get the feeling people with ADHD must be better writers than most.
It's extremely rare for me to say anything with confidence about myself, but 1 thing I can say for certain, is that I'm good at writing, mostly, if not exclusively, thanks to ADHD.
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Thanks for making this community such a rewarding place!
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I feel this. Sometimes I really do wish I could just pull out my brain or switch it off.
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I wish you the best of luck with your treatment, you're only 3 years older than me, it's scary to think it could happen at any age.
What exactly did you experience since you first started? Is it non Hodgkins lymphoma or Hodgkins lymphoma? I've had my lymph nodes playing up for a little while but wouldn't even know what to do, my doctor probably won't care since I ask questions and suggestions for treatments based on previous experience, she doesn't seem to like it. I was having ectopics heart beats and mentioned it towards the end of my appointment, her reply was "oh KingCat, you're killing me."
What was your diagnostic process?
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Also if you can't do it with your dad, you can do it with another family member or ADHD friend.
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Ocd fucking sucks. To anyone who reads this that is battling ocd, I hope you overcome it.
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Especially with ROCD the amount of "trust your gut" posts about relationships kills me. When I'm trying my best to not allow my OCD to gaslight me constantly, and then I have people going "well if you think he isn't telling the truth then maybe he's not"... ugh.
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HUNDRED PERCENT. IT DOESNT WORK BECAUSE YOUR DISORDER DOESNT ALLOW YOU TO MAINTAIN THINGS LIKE MOTIVATION, AMBITION, AND DETERMINATION.
Its not a matter of will holding us back, the disorder itself that does, and at some point that's what needs to be resolved, its a lot easier to blame someone's own complacency for their failures even when you see them trying so hard. Its very frustrating.
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You're spot on about planners! Mine was actually $80, and it was worth every penny because I actually use it.
If you're picky about your planner layout, I highly recommend checking out [Golden Coil](https://www.goldencoil.com/) because you pick which layout you want (I love Horizontal Half 4), which date it starts (meaning you don't waste money buying one in the middle of the year), and it's high quality so I enjoy the tactile feel when I use it everyday. It's been a game changer with my need for tons of lists amidst some scribble.
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Me when I think about my boyfriend and how he’s a great person and I’m horrible 🥲🙃
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"Did you try your best?"
"I did everything I could with the resources I had at the time"
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Report: I'm in the post and I don't like it.
Seriously though, I don't know when I washed my hair last... November? That's not good...
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me, with adhd reading this post: heheh they call trash rubbish
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I just found out I had ocd about 7 days ago I’ll have it from October to may or April then it will go away completely only to come back. I started obsessing over if I can pull a set of girls I know and from there I looked up why am I repeating things. And it seems that now I am obsessing over the fact that I have ocd, I’ll have intrusive thoughts for the 80th time about the fact that I have ocd with all different reasons like I’m gonna have a lower quality of life and shit like that but I find that just agreeeing with these thoughts stop the anxiety but I still feel as if they are making me lose focus. Usually when I’m good I’m the summer I can do 40 things at once now I can’t even fuckin jerkoff. My sexual desire is shot the only thing I fuckin care about is ocd looking up ocd symptoms I’m obsessed and have compulsions about being obsessed and having compulsions and at this point I’m just getting ready to go another 6 months of depression and I might as well be in a coma cause my life is not mine.
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Yes! CBT has helped me immensely with this aspect of my life, but it still gets in the way of so many things.
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I do this just about daily with the goddamn garage door.
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God I'm going through this now, it's so hard to try and do the fastest mental sprint of my life to see if I'm actually okay with it or if I'm just trying to make myself seem okay with it because I don't want to cause problems
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It's basically 1am and i should have gone to bed hours ago.
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This is so true!! My day is ruined if I have something in the afternoon, I just won't get anything done and I will feel sick in my stomach, ill just walk around the house not able to enjoy my day off.
I'm really thankful now I have a job that starts at 8am, I once did shift work and it really didn't gel well with me.
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The hard part is knowing whether your fears are real or driven by OCD / anxiety.
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i do this all the time. i have such a hard time giving anything away. i even feel bad for food i don’t eat. i’m surprised to see this on the OCD sub, i never thought that that could be the cause of why I feel this way but it makes a lot of sense now.
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Worst thing about being intermittently brilliant is that when you do fuck up, people think you must be doing it on purpose or you’re lazy.
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Literally have "how to build rockets" on my clipboard from last night.
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/index.php
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For real, I start work at 5pm on Fridays and Saturdays. I wake up at 10am and then do absolutely nothing for the whole day. I just sit there and think about the fact that I have to go to work later. Got most of the day free before my shift and do literally nothing with it. So frustrating
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Ive started drinking too much coffee, the sort of mindset of "if I don't I might fall asleep in class." And "I have to drink it so I look presentable to people i meet."
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i’ve finally figured it out. up at 8. news. feed the cats. clean the litterboxes. breakfast. animal crossing from 11-1. take oscar for a walk. feed the cats. work from 2-6. dinner. feed the cats. watch tv. bed. repeat. 8 hour workdays will never happen but this works.
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This one started up for me, then got crazy paranoid anxiety thinking I didn't have OCD all along. The most mind tricky disorder there is.
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It bothers me when singers stigmatize antidepressants through song titles and album covers and music video visuals, and the words adhd ocd and the works are thrown around like a joke between people who more than likely don’t even have that disorder.
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I'm about to roll over and (try to) sleep for the night, but I've got the technical name for what you're experiencing and some books that might help with it.
I'll drop back in tomorrow when I'm not half asleep.
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....... I have to be getting ready for work
;(
Baaah ok
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Hey that was well done. You educated without shaming the uneducated like an SJW, so you probably reached some people.
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I definitely pay for the reassurance that I won’t forget to eat the food. And now, no more guilt for throwing out food I forgot I had!
Surprisingly, I now pay less for groceries each month — I am SAVING money — because I just have Daily Harvest deliver bowls that take zero focus to turn into a meal. I buy milks and snacks at the store once a month, but otherwise... winning.
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I think it’s important to say how strange and terrifying the thoughts could be. Just like this picture which is really relaxing 😅 People will better understand what fighters we are hah!
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Thank god Risperidone for making me sleep instantly. :)
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KUDOS , ONE DAY AT A TIME ! IM SO PROUD CANT WAIT FOR YOUR UPDATE NEXT WEEK
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Well done. Many of us have dreamed of doing what you just did
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This is… painfully accurate. Even if I wear gloves when I do something, I still feel the need to scrub my hands at least three times. Or as many until I mentally feel it’s clean enough. I’m so happy they portrayed it accurately here.
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People can read my intrusive thoughts and now want to hurt me.
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Haha—this, but your boyfriend wondering if you’re having an affair because you’re always on the phone or in the bathroom.
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Yep. 5 exams in one week, we were given 1 month plus a thanksgiving vacation to prep yet I spent 1 hour prepping for each of my exams. In total.
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I actually get lost in this kind of thinking. I wonder what have I become. What would I say to my childhood self? But the truth is I am am still me. Those memories, joys and wonder are still in me. We are all developing all the time and perhaps we haven’t even developed into our best selves yet. But I still struggle with how did I get from being excited to do stuff to being frozen by fear and haunted by my thoughts.
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Being lactose intolerant is a choice.
Getting the flu is a choice.
Getting an STD is a choice.
Having asthma is a choice.
Catching COVID is choice.
Having celiac disease is a choice.
You have full control of your body!
LMAO STFU
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I don't have adhd (im on this sub cause my girlfriend does) but this exact thing happens to me when im high.
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This actually made me feel a lot better about my intrusive thoughts, thanks :)
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Fuck, I feel called out.
Thanks (wo)man! Closing the app.
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Bro. I feel this. Articles on the internet are not really friendly towards adult ADHD. There's even less articles about adult males. And more about females. I'm not saying female adhd isn't important, I just think adhd affect both sexes differently and males need to know how to deal with it, as adult men. A doctor told my parents as a kid I had adhd and was offered to take ritialin, but my parents thought it was a bad idea ( it was 1999s to early 2000s, and there was a certain sigma at the time) "boys will be boys" someone put it when I was a kid. Id talk to myself, run aimlessly, move a lot in classes, not do good in school. A lot of teachers thought I mightve been autistic. But anyways, back to being an adult. I still have many of those symptoms, including high stress and anxiety thru the roof, intrusive thoughts, constant motion, and yes, I still talk to myself from time to time. As an adult trying to research my condition and combating it has been difficult." Adhd men" doesn't yield many results and it can be frustrating.
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Fuck yeah! I'm so glad there's stuff like this that treats OCD like what it actually is. I'm used to seeing shit like 'sort the skittles into different bowls by colour', this is giving me hope of the disorder being taken more serously
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I don’t do it as many times as you but I get this too. If I wake up at any point I can’t go back to sleep unless I go to the bathroom first or else I will think about it nonstop. It’s more of a mental urge than a physical. I wasn’t sleeping well at one point and that was excruciating for me having to get up so many times in the night to use the restroom even though I didn’t really physically need to.
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The tough love just misses the point that it is not desire but lack of skills and supports. Goes back to the whole misconception that ADHD folk could be neurotypical if they just wanted it more and tried harder. That just isn't the way it works but it fits in with our cultural mythology.
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I was once bedridden with health anxiety and crazy symptoms for almost two weeks.
It's far from ideal now, but I go to work, meet with friends, read lectures. Heck, I even made a public speech at a conference.
To anyone who reads this - if you think "maybe there's is no improvement" - I just want to you to know there is.
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You stole the words right out of my keyboard. Even when I told my mom about my recent diagnosis as a 23 year old male, she went to search it up online and said "this is all about kids." It almost feels like those of us with the condition who are adults don't really struggle as much as kids when that is clearly not the case. I always thought I would "grow out of it" eventually before I even knew what ADHD was but here I am. If anything my symptoms got worse with adult obligations aside from university. But thankfully every health care professional who I've seen regarding ADHD has taken me seriously and heard me out.
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That’s so awesome. I’m so happy for you. It really does get exhausting. My head is bursting with fear by the end of the day. It’s painful. Every second of my life is spent thinking and overthinking about everything I do and all the things around me that are gonna kill me.
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I've got a phobia of eye injuries so mine are very specific about stabbing myself in the eye.
Can't use box cutters or pocket knives anymore. Thankfully Amazon packages are pretty easy to open with my fingernails.
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I wish I could transfer my OCD to someone else and not have it anymore lmao
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So I'm not deficient as a human in all ways? Thanks cake❤
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A friend of mine said the other day:
Why don't you just write things down so you don't forget what you have to do.
I am literally crying. It worked and now I'm actually doing things and I'm not forgetting!
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When I was younger. Losing something was terribly distressing for me. I would look for hours even if what I lost was insignificant. I still remember the few things I lost as a child and I still feel really bad about it.
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You’re not alone! I feel you. Every conscious second of the day is a rat race sometimes. But you CAN do this. I believe in you. If there’s anything that quiets your mind hobby wise, try to do it when you can.
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I was that way with Depakote after a while, too bad I cant take it anymore 😔
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Ahhhhh. Yeah its like having malware on your software / brain that constantly sends you to whatever the malware is programmed to reroute you to.
If it were ransomware, I'd just pay the ransom.
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This is really rough but I think a big part of OCD is not knowing how to believe in and strengthen that REAL and KNOWING inner voice inside of us. Has anyone ever related their OCD to gaslighting? I have been focusing on my own healing for the past 5 months or so especially, and I have made huge progress in overcoming my own ocd tendencies from identifying and coming to terms with my own experiences with childhood trauma and other gaslighting throughout my life.
It's a better use of your time to speak to yourself positively and be patient with yourself! Sometimes OCD is a way that we are avoiding things that we care and want to learn about as well! For me, the more I learn, the more confident I feel in my ability to handle life and my OCD thoughts because hey, even if I am worried about that 1% chance that the door could somehow come unlocked... I also believe in myself enough to know that I can take a part of door handle and figure out the "mechanics" of it need be!
Healing from these sorts of compulsions are all about trust! Sometimes we just have to take the time to get to know ourselves! Sometimes it helps to just let ourselves know that we care! <3
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Worst is “obsessive Christmas disorder”🙄yes I actually saw a sign with that this year😒
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This.
And then you find out that you are genetically resistant to SSRIs, to a point where they are ineffective, and go through 9 other medications, and counting. Then on top of all that all of the meds you try give you side effects that outweigh the benefits by miles and leave your mental health worse than before... :/
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I feel you pain. Hell I'm rubbing lotion on right now and it BURNS!
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