OCD do you have it and how do you cope

[jacks girl]

By the Grace of God there go I...

I've never been diagnosed by a doctor nor do i take medicationm but I know people who have been. I have the same symptoms and I took an online test and it said seek immediate help. LOL :p I've always had many traits but they exploded about three years ago when several things happened.

I woke up one day with a ringing in my ears... Tinnitus from years of being around loud noise. Thank God he helped me to learn to deal with it. But it took almost two years.

I was forced to stop going on the road with hubby a life changing exp in its self. we'd been on the road with each other for 18 years no kids two dogs. I went from going all over the country to going hardly anywhere.
During this time i got pregnant at age 39 and miscarried after 10 weeks.

My body suffered a great shock that about pushed me over the edge with Tinnitus and a miscarriage. MY emotions went through the ringer and now here I am learning to cope with the new me.

I'm not as bad as monk and I'm thankful that I do as well as i do.


How to cope.

Pray pray and then pray..
make lists to show yourself you've really done things.
i hold up a finger for each door I check to make sure it's shut.
I will say in Jesus name this or that thing is unplugged.
Did i mention pray.
Mostly I know that God loves me and that he won't put more on me
that I can bare...

Jacks
Is this TMI?

[kluchar70]

I don't know how bad I have it(wait I see a piece of lint), but I can drive my wife crazy sometimes(did I lock the back door?), like when I check my alarm clock ten times(is that picture out of place?), or when we get in the car and I have to go back to the house to check the lock. I joke, but you get the picture and my wife has learned to love me for it. I think it is mild compared to some of the cases I have seen, but I deal with it every day. I just have accepted it as a part of me, I guess. I can drive myself crazy like, "It says A.M. just go to bed!" But sometimes I can ignore those tendencies depending on how strong they are. I never went to counseling because it has never gotten overwhelming but I don't really have any major solutions on how to deal with it.

[jacks girl]

You say something there that gets my attention. Do you not want to sleep in the am more than the pm. I go to sleep fine but i want to stay up late and sleep the day away. LOL i never thought this might have something to do with my OCD. I know what you mean I stay alone some times and if i step one foot out of the house I have to do a booger check.

Its hard to do a booger check cause the bad guy might sneak in one room while im
in the other room. So i have to check a room then shut the door then so on. I also have to get out of the bed a lot to do something. Check a door, check the heat, did i turn the fish heater off. You get the picture.

Also I feel the need to explain things over and over to be sure you understand
what I'm trying to say. This drives hubby nuts. It worried me when i started this
thread that I would learn some new thing that people did and I would catch it. LOL
Glad you jumped in can you go into more detail on your sleeping habits please.

Thanks Jacks

[kluchar70]

If it wasn't for mirrors, I don't know what I would do!
My sleeping habits are weird only because I am a baker. I wake up at 3:00 AM, work, and come home to take an hour power nap. My OCD really doesn't affect my sleep. In your case, it may be something else. If you spend a lot of time alone, you might be depressed (as if you need something else). I only say this because my wife is the same way. She is totally a night person, staying up late and sleeping as long as she can until she goes to work. On her days off, she won't wake up until 11 or 12. I know that when her depression acts up, she really wants to sleep long but through counseling and meds she has been much better. I spend too much time alone just because I'm afraid of what others think of me and I tend to obsess over it. This group and the Christian Writers group have really been helpful to me in getting out of my head. I learned through counseling that the more time I spend alone, going over things in my head, the worse that I get.

[kluchar70]

I'll try not to give you any new things to obsess over.LOL

[jacks girl]

Lol good one. I'm trying to wrap my mind around the fact that any day my cousin is going th have little Dylan. It's really hard to imagine. I hope to start soon on a book about the effects of a miscarriage. I suppose everyone is affected differently. But I'm sure there a lot of people out there that could benefit from such a book. I'm sure that my ocd helps to cause me to worry and think about things more so than the normal person. So that leads me to the question what is OCD?

What makes it happen. what is wrong with our brains. If we ate more apples would we get better. LOL did our mother drop us on our heads. LOL

Have you ever wondered what makes us what we are?

[kluchar70]

Yes, I have wondered why we are the way we are. Mine started when I was doing LSD a lot. If it's a chemical thing, maybe I altered my brain chemistry to cause it. Another thought that I had was the LSD caused me not to trust my senses because I would hallucinate. Maybe that caused a pattern that carried over even after I quit. I never looked into it so I'm not sure.

[jacks girl]

Me either, I always did a few things that would make me a candidate for ocd but the emotional breakdown really brought it out. I'm trying to over come it with Battle Field of the MInd by joyce myers.

jacks

[JCsAngelPen]

Yea I know about that...I have been diagnosed with clinical depression and post tramatic stress disorder, but as mental disorders come in clumps, I think I have a touch of OCD and a few other disturbances. haha. By God's grace I'm still alive though. :) And healing through it all.

I just try to give it to God... Every time I have to backtrack to find something I think I left or check a locked door, I praise God that He gives us instincts...even if mine are overly over-active. hehe.

[ProfessorAlan]

I have just a touch of OCD, usually involving my need to alphabetize things ... I collect HW or quizzes in class, and have to put them in alphabetical order before I can move on to the day's lecture.

[Tarin]

I have just a touch of OCD, usually involving my need to alphabetize things ...

Me too. I don't think I'm *technically* OCD, as in a chemical imbalance or anything... but I'm definitely compulsive. I'm not complaining though; I'm much more organized and efficient than I would be without my compulsions. ;)

[ProfessorAlan]

Oh, I agree -- my level is nowhere near needing meds or anything, just a few things regarding letters & numbers, but they only embarrass and humble me, they do not disable me in any way.

[Tamera]

Truthfully, I wish I were a bit more compulsive. It might help me with my organizational disfunctions.

[jacks girl]

I myself don't take meds but often think may be I should take something at times to relax me a little when im stressed out most.

jacks