 Help with OCD
Hi, my name is Andy and I am 23 years old. I'll get right to the point and I would ask that if you're going to comment please be helpful and do not leave any comments like, "You're sick" or "You need to be locked up".
My OCD comes on from time to time, and it feels like it generally happens when I am off on a holiday from work or school. One of the symptoms I've seen of OCD is having disturbing thoughts that cause anxiety and distress. Well I have had those kinds of thoughts. I feel sometimes that I am going to lose control and hurt someone I love emotionally or that I am going to do something to disappoint my family in some way and alienate myself from them, even though I know they would never abandon me.
I think some of this comes from the fact that I am about to go into an actual job that I can use my newly aquired teaching degree in and I have worried about it since the beginning of the summer. I also have recently broken up with a girl that I loved deeply but the problems mostly came from her being way too demanding and there was a good distance between us physically (she lived in the UK and I lived here in the US).
What I am asking is this:
1). Are these symptoms I've described normal?
2). Can anyone please help me by giving me some strategies you have used in the past that helped to combat your own OCD or anxiety?
I came here seeking help from other sufferers because in the books I have read I have seen the authors say several times that it is best to discuss first with people who have suffered with the disorder before going to see a psychiatrist (which I am considering doing soon). Please help!
Last edited by EllisonGray : 07-20-2008 at 01:51 AM.
Reason: Clarification of one statement I made as I was a bit vague.
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07-19-2008, 01:52 AM
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