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Dude this makes a lot of sense. When I working I can’t seem to concentrate on my work or even know where to start, but for some reason when a co-worker asks a question I can figure out their problem and answer it pretty quickly.
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I'm struggling with this with my crush turned friend right now. Like I really liked him, then I got to know him more, realized he's kind of a jerk, but he's still funny and cute and I want to be around him. But I also know I probably shouldn't be friends with him if he makes me so upset sometimes...but I don't want to hurt his feelings or mine and make things weird at work because we work together!!
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i realized this quite recently!! i am now very self conscious on how long my sentences are, and how much punctuation i use. in school i always wrote run on sentences, my teachers just said to add punctuation, and it would be fine. god they were wrong. it’s hard for me to read most of the things i write up. so many of my sentences are pretty much a paragraph, with so. much. punctuation. it’s hard, but i’ve really been trying to work on it recently!
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I learned to love the Lord my God’s son Jesus, with all my heart, with all my soul and with all my strength. Give it all you’ve got despite a very beloved follower being unworthy.
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My Spotify discover weekly playlist is kinda creepy.
Last week it had a song called focus and this week it has a song called dopamine!!
Spotify is sus
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I was around 11 when all my stuff started and I also kept a journal. I'd write stories in it to distract myself. It's strange to view it now because I was so critical of myself yet I had the informality of youth? 🤔 You probably know what I mean. I used to have bad masochistic and fatalistic thoughts though. I'm writing a book about everything now in the hopes all my experiences might help someone someday.
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Google is the worst compulsion. No clear answer which is what your searching for. Add to that speed reading as your worried what it might say. Google just ramps up anxiety levels
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I literally done this last night though star signs. These memes are so refreshing. Apparently the problem with people with OCD is we apparently care TOO much. Which is a good sign in to this matter,Al and a pain elsewhere.
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...I literally just checked mine today and it was pretty much the same band over and over again.
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Congrats! Fantastic acheivement, and beautiful hair.
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I'd probably trade that for an ability to actually perceive time as it is haha
I think the cons outweighs the pros imo :(
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Ooooh see I do this! There’s a playlist on Spotify called “best morning ever” or something like that and I do it whenever I have physical tasks like washing up or cooking and it really gets me bouncing!
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Hey, you’re doing great. You’re so strong for having to fight with this. You’re not weak at all, you’re doing great. You’re awesome :).
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Ehhh I tend to disagree. I describe it to people by asking them how well they're able to focus on 4 hours of sleep.
Typically my add is me getting impulses to stand up and go to the fridge or an impulse to go find my cat to pet him, or to open reddit and hyper focus on nothing for an hour. And when I try resisting the impulses it feels like what I described above
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Yep, and then when it’s sent, you worry even more because you forget what you said
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This is amazing!! I only 3 months ago started setting 2 alarms every day to brush cause my dentist said I was starting to develop gum disease, but ever since then my teeth look great and the gum disease has completely gone away! I'm so happy for you and everyone else in this thread that's done the same!!!!
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Or when you get in an argument with someone, but can't come up with a single example in your favour...then do the next day
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Laughing at the gummy vitamins part so true. It's like a little treat how could I forget! Also a pill requires a cup and water and I have to find a clean one then find the pills... Usually I'll do one of those things then walk away and come back from work with pills on the counter I never took.
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Wow I wish I could myself this more. My brain often tries to tell me that I might be overreacting and faking my OCD and that Im just weak and a bad person for having the thoughts that I do...😌♥️
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My brain says you're wrong and I don't know what to believe anymore
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Hell no not today!!!Today I cleaned my room and bought some headphones
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I hate stuff like this. Would send me into a spiral.
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😭 YUP
I love the gold bond eczema relief lotion with colloidal oatmeal, it helps so much!
I obsess about washing my hands, I’m at the point where it almost feels pointless to moisturize because I will wash them so soon after. This still helps, just make sure to apply a bit to the parts that get the driest (back of the hand and in between fingers for me).
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I have lost my erection more times than I care to admit because I'm staring off into space. It's infuriating.
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Omg just like me on youtube mostly haha. I have over thousands of videos in: watch later 🤣 i have so many playlists and stuff and i never even take a look at it lol. Or lists on apps like pinterest, weheartit, etc. Its crazy.
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The uncomfortable feeling of resisting that compulsion/obsession is awful :(
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On a positive note, my forgetfulness about having masks when I traveled (live in Asia) meant that when the pandemic hit I had built up a stock of 60 or so masks. So yay?
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Oh god
Edit: my therapist of 5 years doesn’t know my worst intrusive thoughts
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Yup. We’re walking contradictions. I like to call it ‘Organized Confusion’.
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I am SO happy you decided to hyperfocus on this and make this huge list!!! I've seen a lot of useful things!! And some i didn't even know it was ADHD! I've saved this and will definitely be using this a lot!!
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It didn't cure it but it did give me a droplet of serotonin
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Great meaning and congratulations on your achievements <3
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Has anyone suspected mom is ADHD? She might be frustrated at being distracted and reacting emotionally instead of being considerate and honest, that she isn't able to listen with a lot of visual stimulation and needs to avert her eyes or something. Tell her to try looking away to listen; a stranger on the internet recommends it.
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A trick I do to prevent this is to vocally say out loud “door is locked” or “I locked the door” and if I don’t say it I’ll have to go back and double check
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Did I usher this horse in because this is really what I think? Is the Trojan Horse really me?!? Am I the fucking enemy?
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I just left my mom on the road for 20 mins
Without a phone, because I forgot I had to go pick her up. But also aced a paper, and came at the top of my class with no effort. Life feels like a parody of a sherlock Holmes story sometime.
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Atleast it's not called MBD (minimal brain damage) anymore like it used to back in the day 😅
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This is actually a concern I had as well. Being in a major (nursing) that requires HIGHLY STRUCTURED time in clinical setting and in the classroom, it’s a shit storm in my brain right now and I haven’t gotten much done the last couple days even though we just made the decision last night.
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This would probably explain a large part of the imposter syndrome I feel about a lot of my success.
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it's especially hard when you're recovering from self harm lmao
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I'm more than my thoughts... but I am made up entirely of my feelings. :(
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Thanks, I enjoyed scrolling past this while continuing to do nothing
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I completely agree. I hate it. I'm not even diagnosed, I just don't want the label to myself of having it. When I don't have the diagnose I can sometimes doubt it and think that it's just something that will pass.
Sometimes when I'm working on something or even just watching Netflix, I suddenly see something that bothers me so much, and I can't get my mind out of it until I go to move it. Whenever I think of something bad that might happen to someone close to me, I have to start manifesting/praying good health and happiness for them even though I'm an atheist. I just feel like maybe they will get hurt or something will happen because of my sudden thoughts. I think so often "what if" and see all kinds of scenarios in my head. Then I have to prevent those things from happening by replacing items, changing plans, telling them to avoid something and so on.
This is not even all of it, but there hasn't been a moment in my life that I have enjoyed any of these. It's a curse, not a blessing.
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I’ve read somewhere that less than 10% of people with OCD actually get treatment for it. Crazy!
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This is literally me! 2 years and it took me a whole year to get over it
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THANK YOU.
I have been basically thanking God that I went back to school and completed my degree when I did, a little over a year before this clusterfuck began.
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This was beautiful. And in that beauty, lies the reason for ADHD. I relate to much of what you said, and wish I could say I feel you, but alas I've self-medicated myself the past day to the point I don't really feel much, not to mention being sleep deprived after a skipped night. But though I can't pull out the feelings that resonate with what you said the most - because I'm well trained in the art of making them disappear from my awareness - I hope I can get myself to write you, perhaps via DM or here, a letter of sorts of whatever comes to mind. Feel free to remind my ass when I inevitably wake up tomorrow as if I got a brain reset and all my seedlings of intentions from today and before dissolve yet again, ejected from sparse malnourished soil, lost in a room only barely lit by smoldering embers of a neglected hearth.
In any case, be well, and thanks for reaching that place despite me having locked it away. It helps with finding it back.
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I'm having my first in less than a month and I am terrified of passing on my OCD to her. But hopefully if she has it one day, I can recognize the signs and get her help way sooner than I got help
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OP, you're not alone. Instead of rambling on about how I go through the same exact thoughts and feelings, just know that a lot of us here are going through it and it's nothing to be ashamed of. Honestly, I don't know how I'm going to solve these ADHD related issues but eventually we could try and cope in any way that we can. Sending love your way and showing my support!
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Sure, it sucks for those of us who were diagnosed as adults, but on the bright side, look at all help for the next generation.
It still sucks for us. That doesn't change. And I'm sorry we had to go through that. We're here now, and we're moving forward, learning to cope, and that's okay.
It'll suck less for them, and that's something I can feel good about.
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omg this is literally so beautiful. the colors. the detail. everything. this is by far the best sculpture i have ever seen, it's so unique and pretty. u should totally keep making these!! i wouldn't be surprised if you become famous one day because of your amazing work.
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I casually spout the fraze "I know". Its my go to word to try and cancel out those pesky intrusive thoughts.
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Lexapro for 15 mg. Literally CVS fills it like it's 2 separate prescriptions one for 10 and one for 5.
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Very cool. You can't beat it all at once, it's the individual wins.
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Yayy it seems like ur making great progress! I don’t have contamination OCD but if I work with raw stuff I wash my hands nonetheless lol idk I’m not a big meat person but hey if not washing ur hands help u overcome ur OCD like go for it haha
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I gave maybe found a worse one today. Colleague of mine, knows I have adhd. It’s my afternoon off at 5pm messages me saying ‘I need to speak to you urgently!’ I try to reach back to no avail and I’m rather worried and my meds have run out…
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Hahahaha I didn’t know I needed this meme in my life
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I am a software engineer and this is me everyday all day.
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This says that our life is valuable simply by its existence and not dependent upon anything. We are innately important that way. Yes, breathe. A nice message. By the way I suggest mindfulness in general as well as breathing.
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OCD is *not* needing your pens straight. OCD is having a goddamn panic attack at 3 in the fucking morning because the tally scores won’t go even for each side of your body and your heart hasn’t slowed down since.
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lmao for me it’s always having compulsions to comment on posts a certain number of times
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yeah i could see this happening. sounds about right
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aw no, i just had a meltdown after i compulsively picked at my healing tattoo :( it’s so hard not to pick tho!!
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Is fear of chemicals a normal thing with OCD??? Please someone answer
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Im have this problem too especially when i got piles of project i have to do. :( i dont really know where to start 😔 but today i went to say heck it and did 20mins of exercise at home. I feel guilty but i also feel good. Now im gonna tell myself to sit on 20 mins of work then imma head to bed 😜
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Thanks! But I'm just going to scroll past this and pretend I didn't read it :)
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Damn why didnt I see beforehand? I should have been appreciating my extended ocd breakdown these past few weeks in which I was convinced I had cancer and was dying! Fucking awesome man. God, fuck me, but more importantly, fuck anyone who thinks ocd is remotely positive or pleasant.
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True, and this is probably why i ate all my foods as soon as posible otherwise i'll just forgot.
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I have a masters degree with honours but a lot of jobs I've had people acted like they thought I was a total moron because I'd always get distracted and forget everything.
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But are you REALLY sure they haven't turned on? You need to go check again for the 483372727 time because that's the magic number.
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You are just like me! That’s how mine is too. I did great in school but have tons of symptoms. I do procrastinate though.
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Unthinking mollification is an unfortunate curse some people seem to have picked up.
I'd rather not be heard at all than be told my concerns are meaningless.
I'm happy to tell you things are terrible any time you like, if you need. I can even say things that aren't terrible are terrible, really help put them into perspective.
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Can i add, "use your windows, mirrors, fridge, etc. as white boards"?
The markers wipe off just the same.
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Haunted by my mistakes.
I also am very moral. I am trying too much to be a good person. Which makes my mistakes hurt more.
Although i did read a good quote that said you would not be where you are today without making these mistakes.
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Damn, I'd never dare. Chicken, especially with bones is my absolute nightmare. Even cooked by a professional.
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Consistent brushing is a goal for me too this year. My 8 year old daughter just had a cavity free dentist visit today and I was so proud. They reminded me that she needs to brush and floss twice a day and I'm like, riiiiight. Shiiiit, I should be a good role model. I need to do better by her and myself.
And don't minimize your hard work. Teeth brushing is a rad goal!
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My MOM is my biggest unbeliever. She does not believe In me. I feel worthless at times. She could care less about my personal feelings. It's sad when the one person you have to lean on is yourself. I am in a tough boat and it feels bad. I want to just end my life at times cause of how I feel. Anyways I just want to not live anymore at times. When I lost my job from the covid I feel more broken than ever and I feel stuck. 💔 I feel so broken down
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I'm amazed to see so many people from my time zone here lol. Good morning everyone
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Thanks OP, hope your week will be amazing and less bothered by OCD
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Bad time for me to be allergic to fluoxetine. Hehe. I'm glad that you were able to enjoy eight hours of your life today, u/__whyamibroken! I hope that you are enjoying your time here on this earth and continue to!
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imagine using a disorder to get people to click a shitty article
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Ima be the one that says it. Don’t throw stuff at me. I have a degree in psychology so the over achieving know it all is bursting at the seams to say this. 😅
It could be ADD. I look at adhd as a spectrum disorder. adhd is one end the other is ADD and then we have those in the middle who experience both but don’t have a classification yet. Idk if they labeled it a spectrum disorder/ cognitive way of functioning. But they should. It’s like autism. The spectrum is vast. It could be seriously debilitating or just annoying.
The daydreams tend to be ADD and the fidgeter Adhd. However since the 90s They tend to label all forms of attention-deficit disorder as adhd though. Which honestly is super unhelpful. It’s like ptsd another fucking spectrum and they finally rolled out cptsd not to long ago. Mental health still has a long way to go.
If we took the time to not umbrella term everything a lot more people would probably get the correct help they need.
🤷🏼♀️or I’m just talking out my ass but that’s my soap box for the night 😂
I’m the type of person that swings on the spectrum. I go from ADD symptoms one week to ADHD the next. Makes me feel bipolar but hopefully it’s just the joys of having a different way of cognitive thinking.
Tried to edit but then saw there was to many typos and I don’t have time for that. I’m pretty sure everyone in here can decipher that mess lol
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Another good way of looking at this is: just because your experience with OCD doesn’t line up with another’s experience with OCD, does not make it invalid.
OCD thinking patterns are pretty much a blueprint. And most of the time (unless speaking specifically about exposure based treatment) content really doesn’t matter. But it’s really important to not take one’s experience with OCD as god speak. It’s important to note that OCD in general is not a blueprint. There’s different shades and obsessions and one does not (and should not) overshadow the other.
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YES.
I'm not even mad about others self-disgnosing. I'm mad because washing my hands bloody doesn't mean my house is any less of a disaster than it is. Yes. It's a mess. No that doesn't conflict with my germ-avoidance. I'm mostly fine with mine, it's *everyone else's* I can't do.
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OCD since ten, did not stop me being a messy person. Because honestly its like if I can't get it exactly how I know I need it -- then something in me shuts down and can't try. That's only on some things. It's hard to explain to people who don't have it in their brains. But yeah, the amount of people who say 'oh, your house must be spotless..." God forbid they saw it...
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Omg I have 780. I tell myself everyday to stop adding more and then it increases by like 20 a day smh
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This is literally too accurate and funnyyyyyyy 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I’ve had a cyst for years that’s been on my mind a lot lately. Thank you. I hope you’re alright
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I'm one "how could you forget/lose something so important" comment away from losing my mind. I've always been this forgetful how is it still surprising?
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Yes, this and repetitive counting because my brain doesn’t know when to be quiet.
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So accurate it hurts lol this was my entire day today
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My favorite recommendation was I should “try to not forget things”.
Thanks chief! Was really struggling with forgetting not to forget.
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I have to go talk to a teacher because he put me in a group project with another guy and I can t do anything. I don t wanna drag him down with me I m gonna ask him if he can put him in another group and just fail me because I know there is no way I m doing this
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While I agree with where you're coming from, worrying about the fact that you like your OCD compulsions *is* an OCD compulsion in itself. A little different from what you're saying, but I think the sentiment in your title could be harmful to those people who have that OCD theme.
Here's a video on the subject! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4NJGtvCAUY
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Yes. "Okay, but like why" is my response to pretty much every instruction. Reactions range anywhere from surprise to rage. But yes I need more context. I need to know how it works so I can make sure I am doing my part correctly.
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Does anyone ever get frustrated to think how good their grades would be if they didn't have ADHD? Like, I'm graduating a year early from college with a good GPA, what GPA would I have had if I were able to not procrastinate and actually pay attention in all my classes?
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This right here. I can fucking relate to this haha.
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Why you attacking me this morning with that title....
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Same here. I taught myself to read when I was 2 through a wheel of Fortune game. I have quite a laudable lexicon and my ability to express myself through written word can be remarkable at times. So much so that when I was in school, I wrote a paper so well, that my professor refused to believe I wrote it and was ready to fail me for plagiarism even though she ran it through software that showed my content was original. She had no evidence of plagiarism plus I had been excelling in the class prior to that. In her defense though, when I read it back to myself even I was stunned slightly.
When I write I tend to do so in a random stream of consciousness that I later organize.
NOW SPEAKING.... sometimes I feel like I'm borderline incoherent 😂. Not even medication helps with this. Also when I taught myself to read I did so phonetically so I had a tendency to mispronunce a ton of words but only ever so slightly.
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One thing I like to do is verbally say things out loud, that helps me remember. This helps in a lot of scenarios... I've even gotten to the point where I say "clear" to myself as I look each direction before I cross the road.
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