Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

[livingwith]

I was diagnosed with OCD when I was 18.. Its something I now know I’ve always had. The braking point was when I couldn’t get this one horrible, horrendous, terrible repetitive thought and image out of my head. It didn’t matter what I’d do, it was constant and although I knew it was ridiculous and silly, and as much as I tryed to not think about it there was nothing I could do to ascape it. I had had horrible repetitive thoughts about different subjects up untill that poin...Read the full article

[debfrance]

Your posting is so well expressed - you sound like you've found balance in this topsy-turvy place called life. You gave off a sense of having good perspective of keeping the ocd in its "place", that it is something you "have", but you are not allowing it to rule your life. That's the biggest work, is figuring out what's going on (getting and understanding the diagnosis) then rendering it manageable.

I am 55, married (for the fourth time), have one 15 year-old child and have obsessive (without the compulsive) problems and ADD. It's been a roller-coaster ride because I didn't know what was going on in me - since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, have so often felt out of control of my emotions and cognition, and with age, assuming responsibility for it but disliking myself for being so "weak-minded". But now I understand the situation and I'm determined to "put it in it's place". Your posting has helped me in that you clearly expressed how it was a problem and how you came to minimizing it's control over your life. Thank you for expressing your situation so clearly and succinctly - it is of help to me, too.

I wish you continued strenghth and happiness in whatever you take on. Good minds are a treasure (and a good mind is one that can overcome the difficulties and get on with the essential). Thanks again for what you wrote.