Hi all,i'm nu to this site. What i would like to do is throw out some of my ocd symptoms and if anyone can relate to me i would apreciate any feed back. Ok! here we go. I find myself always checking things over and over. For example,when i turn off a light or close a door i have to check to make "sure' i have done this. sometimes checking it many times until i feel i have done so. I try to tell myself to "let it go" that i have done whatever i'am doing. Sometimes it works and sometimes not. i retrace my steps in my head until i'm satisfied my task has been done. For example,when i close my garage door on my way to work i check it numorous times and sometimes i think all the way to work,did i really close it? Then i retrace my steps as to what i did from the time i got up to the time i closed the door until i'm satisfied i did close it. I waste alot of time standing around thinking of things like if i'm sure i did this or am i sure i did that. Checking the door to see if its locked at night or when i leave. Forgeting what people say is another one. Someone can tell me what they are going to do in the evening and i'l totally forget it in two minutes. My mind seems to be always thinking and planing like i'm trying to always be two steps ahead and in the end i forget anyway. Not sure if this makes any sense to anyone but if so i can go into further detail if anyone would like to comment. Thx in advance,looking forward to some feed back.
Fear of Forgeting
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I am no novice to poor memory.
- notes, lots of them
- post-it notes, lots of them
- fingers or hands
- fingers or hands again to add reminder of noted reminder
- and don't worry too much about it
- you can try some things like memory games to exercise the memory. I never had success. For the damnedest reason I kept forgetting to keep up with it.
I don't have OCD, thankfully, and I do not have any advice for your troubles with it, sorry.
- notes, lots of them
- post-it notes, lots of them
- fingers or hands
- fingers or hands again to add reminder of noted reminder
- and don't worry too much about it
- you can try some things like memory games to exercise the memory. I never had success. For the damnedest reason I kept forgetting to keep up with it.
I don't have OCD, thankfully, and I do not have any advice for your troubles with it, sorry.
Rembrandt Broam
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I can relate to this kind of OCD thinking. It's worse for me when there's something I do as part of a routine, because I'm doing it on auto-pilot and then I later start to get anxiety about whether I actually did it, or I just assumed I did it.
Sometimes I find just re-affirming out loud that I am performing the action helps me not to doubt later on that I did it. Another thing I sometimes do is to perform some small, out of the ordinary action directly after the action I might have OCD about (locking a door, for example) so the second, memorable action acts as a "marker" to confirm I did the first one.
Sometimes I find just re-affirming out loud that I am performing the action helps me not to doubt later on that I did it. Another thing I sometimes do is to perform some small, out of the ordinary action directly after the action I might have OCD about (locking a door, for example) so the second, memorable action acts as a "marker" to confirm I did the first one.
That sounds exactly like me,im doing things on auto pilot while thinking of other things. Then later i get anxiety as to if i did it or not. Although there are lots of times when i know i did something but still have to think it through that i actually did it. Sometimes its really tough to "let it go" as i call it. Thank u very much for the reply and the tips,im gonna try those two things. One thing i do that helps is if theres someone with me i re-affirm with them. For example when i lock the doors and close the garage door as im driving away i say "doors are locked,garage is closed" kind of as a question to them and they say yes,then im good. After awhile though it seems weird to ask this every time to them so im tryin not to do it too much.
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