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Teen OCD
Let's take control of our lives!
Posted By: chris In Response To: I have ocd and i need help! (Jacob m)
Date: Saturday, 5 August 2006, at 7:08 a.m.
i actually suffer from OCD bad and I am destroying my life. I am determined to combat this disease now and I believe i can succeed with perseverance and a positive attitude. I hope you can have a positive attitude as well. I wanna start thinking about the positive aspect of life and how I can go out and enjoy my life to the fullest rather than repeating my OCD rituals. I have been doing rituals since I was in primary school and I tell ya, it really has been taking its toll. I get nervous before I go out 'cause I am afraid that I might not be able to control my rituals and that I would make people think I am crazy or something. Sometimes I can control it perfectly when I make up my mind, but other times when I get lax and not pay attention the rituals get outta control and I just wanna kick myself hard. I know this problem is difficult to solve but I firmly believe it can be controlled even if we can't completely get rid of it. I feel that we as OCD patients really can not 100 percent recover from this nightmare but somehow we can do things to control the symptom. I think everybody has OCD related symptoms sometimes, and the difference between normal people and OCD patients is that OCD patients have more crazed and more screwed up rituals than normal people. Also, I think OCD sufferers spend much more time doing rituals than normal people who only spends maybe 2 minutes per day doing rituals. I don't think there is anyone who can completely go about his life without any OCD related rituals. IT is very important for us to understand this: EVERYBODY DOES RITUALS SOMETIMES, and when the line has been crossed, the rituals become severe problems. Our job is to try our very level best to control the ritual, you hear me, CONTROL the rituals, not attempting to completely get rid of them, which i think it is impossible. When we control our rituals the situation can get better and we will waste less time and less energy with OCD.
I think another very critical element of combating OCD, and probably the most important one is that we gotta change our thinking, OK? And by that I mean we gotta change the belief that if we didn't do the rituals something bad would happen. We gotta change this stupid ideology!!!!!I am now doing my best to alter my belief and I feel I can succeed many times. It is very hard now, because the ideology has become our habits. And habits can be very hard to break. However, with determination and perseverance, we CAN break habits. And remember: Nothing bad is gonna happen without satisfying the rituals. Our lives would definitely be better off without those "supposedly life-saving (or whatever you belief) rituals!!! Remember this, folks! I am confident every one of us can succeed and start enjoying our lives. Live our lives to the fullest!
Forgive my English will ya I am a Chinese. OCD is universal, isn't it? Maybe animals can get it too, but I am not sure. But I don't think my dogs have. Good for them! They are my models!
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