horrible illness (My Experience of OCD)

Member Name: mazey03

Product:	My Experience of OCD
Date:	07/11/08 (35 review reads)
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Advantages: helpig yourself

Disadvantages: its horrible controlling and makes me ill

Ive suffered from ocd since i was quite young and i no how alot of people that suffer from this nasty illness it basiclly takes over your life and makes you fill like a different person.

ive taken different medication but nothing seems to work and i used to see a sycoligist and to be honest he was no help at all as every week he would forget what i had told him the week before so basicly i had to learn for my self what to do to help my self.

what i find helps is when im sitting down or laying in bed and see something i have to get out of bed and go put it right when deep down i no its fine but i think something bad is going to happen like someone close like my mum will die so a tip is to look around the room and find other things out of place and think well it doesent matter now its not the only object and to count to ten and do something else and u may forget about that object.

also i suffer from rituals like stepping on the door step ten times before i can get in to the house or something that day wont go right and it reall rules your life so i just tell my self over and over again not to be so stupid you no nothing bads going to happen and no one is going to die.

this may sound stupid if u suffer from ocd but i find what really helps is to have a go at your illness say something like just leave me alone get out of my head and u cant control me i can get rid of you and il be fine that really reasures me and heps me quite a bit.also when i have to keep going back totouch or stamp on things it gets me quite het uo and makes me fill hot and faint so i just either scream or take deep breaths or punch the hell out of a pillow.

but i must say half the time i have to put things right and keep touching surtain items such as a lighter in my house then instead of doing it i eaither ask my mum or partner nothing bad will happen will it if i dont put it right which i shouldent im trying to get my self away from it as i no i cant be asking my mum nothing bad will happen you wont die will u forever i cant let this illness rule my life and every time something bad does happen i really need to stop blaming my self and so do other sufferers we can get trough this.
last thing is silly things like reading a magazine i have to go over the same old word again and again and again so if u do the same it helps me to just look away and to sing a song and go back to it
or if your in public and you have to do a ritual just laugh at your illness and say what ever and just walk on and take deep breaths i also take natural calming tablets they help alot.


i really hope this can help other sufferers
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Summary: i really hope this helps others.