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Old Apr 27, 2012, 07:09 PM
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I don't know if anyone else does this, but I like to 'label' my OCD. i.e. phone OCD, cigarette OCD, car OCD, etc.

I've had OCD for as long as I can remember, but recently my 'mind' OCD is becoming even worse.

This is extremely hard to explain, so I will do my best.

Imagine a thin line of air, about, 6 inches long. (Yeah, I sound crazy already) Okay, now you can see the air, only with your mind, but it's maybe the color of smoke, except lighter. Alright, now if you were to look at a corner on the ceiling and just imagine the air, which has sharp ends, going straight through the corner doing like a safety pin thing, except in a half circle form, and coming back out several inches away from the corner and back into the room.

Yeah, I'm crazy. Anyway.

That's what I basically deal with. I don't know how or why this started. Sometimes it's not even the air thing, just an invisible line that I KNOW is there in my mind. And it's not only with corners. It's with EVERYTHING. The arm of the couch, my desk, a TV, a frickin light bulb. Everything.

The thing is, the 'line' or 'air, has to go directly in the middle, and if it doesn't, which it usually doesn't on the first try, my mind does this thing where it goes crazy and continues to, I guess, 'imagine' it happening until it actually does. And sometimes it takes 10-20 times to actually get in the middle. And sometimes it doesn't even have to start at a corner, but has to go through something, then come out of a little opening.

Now, the thing that's even crazier, is that I can feel the pressure when it goes through. It's very soft, but I can feel it in my mind.

To give an example on how much this bothers me, I went to see X-Men a while ago, and the whole 'mind' thing they do with their powers somehow triggered my 'mind' OCD. I sat through the whole movie trying to get the 'line' or 'air' through anything. I would even make places up in my mind so it could go through so it would go away, but it never did. I ended up crying five times during the whole movie because I couldn't handle it.

I have no idea what to do. Whenever this happens I get easily distracted. I can't pay attention in class, it's hard to concentrate on homework, and I can't even watch TV without it happening. It's everywhere, and I have absolutely no idea how to make it stop.
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