Your mind is overwhelmed with irrational thoughts and urges, compelling you to do things over and over again even though you know they’re unreasonable. You wash your hands repeatedly, compulsively pick at your skin, check the time a million times, hoard junk, or act out nervous rituals that disrupt your life. For an OCD sufferer who experiences the sheer inconvenience and anxiety on a daily basis, no reminding is needed. The 4th most common mental disorder in the world, OCD severely interrupts and even destroys lives.
If you suffer from OCD, a considerable challenge lies ahead. Sometimes, it’s just so easy to “give in” to your compulsions in order to clear your mind and get it over with—most sufferers know what they are doing is abnormal but just want peace, so they obey.
IIN thatI wash my hands four times before i go to bed or i cant sleep!
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Your mind is overwhelmed with irrational thoughts and urges, compelling you to do things over and over again even though you know they’re unreasonable. You wash your hands repeatedly, compulsively pick at your skin, check the time a million times, hoard junk, or act out nervous rituals that disrupt your life. For an OCD sufferer who experiences the sheer inconvenience and anxiety on a daily basis, no reminding is needed. The 4th most common mental disorder in the world, OCD severely interrupts and even destroys lives.
If you suffer from OCD, a considerable challenge lies ahead. Sometimes, it’s just so easy to “give in” to your compulsions in order to clear your mind and get it over with—most sufferers know what they are doing is abnormal but just want peace, so they obey.
But allowing it to control you can make it worse.