i hope its ok to introduce myself here instead of the general introductions thread, because I am looking to connect with other people with OCD and related issues.

apparently i have OCD though i am finding it hard to accept, especially now that I've been taking prozac for a few months and am feeling a lot better.

over the past couple of years i felt like my life was just becoming a vice around me, where i tried so hard to optimize and be efficient in my time and activities that i could hardly do anything at all. nothing was enjoyable.

i have a lot of problems with regard to noise and personal space. i was basically coping with various everyday intrusions into my space until we moved to an apartment where there were people outside our windows at all times (ground floor apartment in a very social neighborhood) and i completely flipped out. my husband didn't understand that what he thought was just a somewhat noisy apartment i was experiencing as a 24 hour a day assault. i was up every night till 4 or 5 am just to get some peace, and drinking a lot.

anyway, we moved again (after only 4 months), i saw a psychiatrist, and life has considerably improved for me.

the issue is that i feel now that i must have made it all up, that i was faking to get attention. i don't know why i think this. i think other people must think it of me (my husband specifically, though he says he doesn't).

well, so, hello

edited for typo