How Excuses Ruin Your Life
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Why on earth would anyone put themselves through that? My friend has it and believe me it’s no joke.
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The word "excuse" is a bit odd here. It’s a very serious disease and isn’t something you choose.
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I believe that it is a form of mental illness, some cases are mild, some severe.
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It’s not an excuse but a serious and hard-to-cure neurosis.
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I don’t understand what you’re trying to say. Are you questioning the existence of OCD? Because, let me tell you, it’s very real. Nobody who has it WANTS to do the things they do – why do you think someone would purposely put themselves through that?
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I have obsessive compulsive tendencies, and I can assure you, I’m not saying that so that I can "excuse" my occasional need to do certain things five times. Say I knocked on a door twice and someone opened it. I would most likely HAVE to knock three more times anyway or I’d feel like there was some kind of unbalance in the universe that could cause something bad to happen to me. I really don’t know why things that are more or less than five (or a multiple of five) bother me in the slightest, but they sometimes do.
my sister has it and trust me its no picnic for anyone so if you think its and excuse you have problems
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It is no more an excuse for ritualizing something than being confined to a wheelchair because someone’s too lazy to walk. You’ve just managed to invalidate thousands of people out there who have real suffering because of a potentially debilitating disorder.
Nobody goes out to deliberately ruin his/her life.
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No
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it is not an excuse, its a terrible psychological disorder that can wreck a persons life, relations and everything.
Of course the extent and seriousness of the problem differs from person to person.
Its often a result of a traumatic experience.
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nope
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Oh, let me assure you, I WISH it was an excuse. Instead, it slowly eats you from the inside out until you occasionally wonder how you make it through life. Does that answer your question?
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In a word – No.
This is just one ignorant misconception.
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Its real. Just imagine a massive tidal wave of anxiety hitting you.
In that split second, the rituals seem like the only way to help to reduce that anxiety and make you feel safe.
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What is your question?
You do not make yourself clear?
You have the answer to "your" question all wrapped up within your one sentence.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a ritual (or rituals) we feel we must perform, be it as "trivial" (to quote yourself) as constantly feeling a compulsion to check, ensure you have actually looked your door.
Once leaving the house, walking away, we feel a desperate need to check over and over again that we have "really" locked the door.
Or, we may feel a desperate need to wash our hands if we touch anything we think may cause us harm.
By that I mean we would wash our hands, dry our hands, then we may touch something, then that need returns again and again and again..
This Compulsion can just go on and on and on..
So yes OCD may involve what you call "trivial" actions, "trivial" needs, involving to every day "operations".
But to those who suffer from this sometimes debilitating disorder, it can take over their lives, causing them to "re-enact their needs (ritual) over and over again..
This disorder can make it impossible for many who suffer to lead a normal life.
So yes, it can ruin our lives..
I do hope that this gives you a little insight to how this dis-order can take over our lives, leaving us little time to carry out everyday tasks.
Could you explain to us why you feel the need to use the word "excuse" within your question?
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Life and Loss
No, I asked a question about me having OCD last night- i don’t know if you read it and i dont know how to put it on here, but if you read it and read the things i wrote on it you’d know it’s not an excuse.
I dont chose to do these things. I don’t know why i do it. I try my hardest not to do it but i can’t. It does my nut in but i can’t stop.
Think im gonna put my question at the bottom since i dont know how to put the wee code in lol believe if you want but i cant help it, its a proper thing.
REAAAADDD
I think I have OCD, Please help me ?
I’v noticed that I can get a little phobic about things, well it’s more than a little tbh and it really really annoys me and I want to stop it but I can’t. I have to wash my hands twice, once when I wash them after doing something silly then agan, without soap, to make sure the soaps off so i don’t poison myself.
I have to check everything atleast twice. Before I go to my bed I have to make sure certain things are in the exact drawer eg. ipod in case in bottom centre drawer and even when I put it in I have to check 5mins later that I did- when i know i did!
I have to check EVERYWHERE for spiders and more than once, even before I sit down have have to check under the seat and I know it looks very stupid but i just can’t not do it!!
I have to make sure the curtains aren’t behind the radiator before I go to sleep and I have to literally open and shut the window to make sure it’s shut! Even though i can see it is!
And this is only a few things i "need" to do. Sometimes I even have to get up out my bed to check things. It takes me at least an hour to go through all my rituals twice before I go to bed and I can’t stop it!
Please don’t make fun of me, I know it’s a proper condition and it really isn’t funny, it drives me up the wall! I don’t want to go and see about it "officially" because of the stigma i suppose and I don’t want anyone to know- every one at school says they’ve got OCD but they don’t and i do (i think?) and i don’t go around saying it like they do because most of the time I don’t want people noticing me, but i suppose my friends notice my rituals.
Can anyone help me stop?
Sorry fo all the writing and thanks in advance
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Sorry for all the writing and reading
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February 28th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
Is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder just an excuse to ritualise every day operations until it ruins your life?
Is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder just an excuse to ritualise trivial every day operations and actions until it ruins your life?