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Old Jan 08, 2018, 06:14 PM
yellowmouse19 yellowmouse19 is offline
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Originally Posted by lepopo1 View Post
I'm a 24 year old male with OCD, Lately I have been obsessed and worried that I am developing some sort of speech aphasia. I noticed one day a few weeks ago that I sometimes say the wrong word when speaking, for example I'd say dinner instead of lunch or this year instead of next year. Since I realized that I was doing this I happened to google this phenomenon which led me to a page about aphasia. Now I seem to be saying words wrong at a greater frequency and I'm worried that I have some sort of neurological problem. Do you think the fact that I am obsessing about making mistakes when speaking is actually causing me to make more mistakes?

Hope someone can help
I do think that you're obsessing about this is causing you to make mistakes. It's making you more nervous and seems to be "throwing you off of your game". You should practice working through this and retraining your brain muscles to act differently when speaking.