Re: Bizarre OCD question!
Hyper awareness and obsessive body scanning/tuning in to particular sensations is common with anxiety, particularly with health anxiety which certainly does seem to carry some of the same traits as OCD. Realistically though clinically speaking, most disordered thought conditions have an awful lot of overlap. Although it’s sometimes convenient to be able to put labels on things it’s not always necessary to in order to correct the behaviour, considering most of these disorders are dealt with on a personal level in much the same way. I have both GAD and OCD, but the ways I have to manage them are one in the same.
Obviously others may find this to be different for them, we are all unique after all but the disorders do tend to follow the same scripts in most of us, just with variations as to what the main focus is.
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