i'm also just presuming as I'm not diagnosed but everything i read and feel points me in that direction. I totally appreciate the anxiety/depression spiral that creeps up as everything gets "out of control" and I'm panicking just typing that tbh. But I'm very high functioning! So the majority of this just reflects on the inside where only I'm aware. When I talk about this with my girl she tells me that I don't seem stressed or anxious at all, so it doesn't come through.
― ulysses, Monday, 1 February 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link
i self diagnosed and then confirmed with an MD. also just because it doesn't come through doesn't mean it's not real. but that's GREAT that you function highly and that your girl is telling you the same. it's not easy to be high functioning.
― surm, Monday, 1 February 2016 21:17 (eight years ago) link
hope y'all are doing ok today
― surm, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
hahahahaha, i was gonna bump this thread!
― ulysses, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
:-)
― surm, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:27 (eight years ago) link
Generally better than last week anyway.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 4 February 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
a little worse for me for a lot of reasons but one of the big ones is needing to close this tab.
― ulysses, Thursday, 4 February 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
yo, i just wanna pop in here and say actually paying (even if out of pocket) to see someone who can prescribe drugs for this is one of the smartest and best things you can do with your life
― ♫ as we get older and stop making threads ♫ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 4 February 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link
yyyyyyyyeah i hear you but
― ulysses, Thursday, 4 February 2016 18:16 (eight years ago) link
i dunno maybe it's worth thinking about
i just made an appt with my doctor for tmw
― surm, Thursday, 4 February 2016 18:48 (eight years ago) link
i'm going to keep making more frequent appts with him he keeps up with all the medicine
― surm, Thursday, 4 February 2016 18:52 (eight years ago) link
Been wondering a lot about how many things in my life are OCD and what the first thing was, sometimes it's so subtle you don't notice a disorder. I think it only became a major problem in my 20s but I can see minor phases of it possibly stretching back to early childhood.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 4 February 2016 22:28 (eight years ago) link
i remember exactly the day when mine started. like the moment. the girl, the conversation, the cafeteria.
i just met with my psychiatrist and he said it's not a bad idea for me to try some medication again. it's not specific to OCD but since my "symptoms" are mixed i'm giving it a shot. i tried it before but not under the right circumstances!
― surm, Friday, 5 February 2016 19:33 (eight years ago) link
mmmmmaybe
― ulysses, Friday, 5 February 2016 19:37 (eight years ago) link
it's been years since i've tried something - i get the major hesitation
― surm, Friday, 5 February 2016 19:39 (eight years ago) link
Doing much much much better than the hole I was in when I last posted here. Still need to fix my reading OCD problem though.
I was talking with a bunch of OCD people recently and they pointed out how the trend of youngsters in fan communities and social media being extremely puritanical often seems a lot to do with OCD. The idea had crossed my mind, but discussing this and thinking about the paranoid dogmatic behavior, it makes a lot of sense. Really scary and sad that they're hanging out together and freaking each other out like this.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
https://amp.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article269080207.htmlKentucky mayor opens up about having OCD and urges people to stop making it a punchline.
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 00:58 (one year ago) link