Louisey
12-10-06, 15:07
Hi all,
I was thinking - from what I've been reading, one of the obsessions OCD sufferers can have is being (often mortally) ill or having something terribly physically wrong with them, leading them to the 'compulsion' - to continually check and assess a symptom to see if it is getting better or worse.
I've been in this situation, badly, at least three times in my life, along with other bad periods of OCD. Anyone else been in a situation where fear/worry about a symptom starts to take over your life, be on your mind constantly? Where you check constantly that a lump hasn't got bigger, a mole changed colour or a cough gotten worse?
These days, sometimes just knowing it's my OCD making me start to panic about a symptom is enough to calm me down and think rationally.
L x
I was thinking - from what I've been reading, one of the obsessions OCD sufferers can have is being (often mortally) ill or having something terribly physically wrong with them, leading them to the 'compulsion' - to continually check and assess a symptom to see if it is getting better or worse.
I've been in this situation, badly, at least three times in my life, along with other bad periods of OCD. Anyone else been in a situation where fear/worry about a symptom starts to take over your life, be on your mind constantly? Where you check constantly that a lump hasn't got bigger, a mole changed colour or a cough gotten worse?
These days, sometimes just knowing it's my OCD making me start to panic about a symptom is enough to calm me down and think rationally.
L x