FRUSTRATION!

Happy Wednesday, all!

This week it seems that my compulsive behaviors are more noticeable-i.e. talking a lot.

I don't know why but just wanted to vent.

OCDC

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Hope you feel better getting that off your chest! You can vent and talk here all you like if it helps you and makes you feel better

Hope you have a great Thursday!


sabby

Talking a lot can be an ocd behavior? Crap, is that why I never shut up? I do feel "compelled" to speak in most situations.

Huh. Good to know.

Cyran0

i didnt know that that was a sign. y'know my whole life therapists have been saying im depressed, but now its looking like most of my problems stem from anxiety, not depression. my hypervigilance (thank you whoever taught me that word - i dont remember), my bad memory, i talk a lot (ask my co-workers... actually im sure you all know that by now)..... my add...

your name reminds me of ac/dc. ocdc.... see... thats what im talking about!

saluki, it's interesting you bring that up. In my one session with my new T he observed that my depression seems to come from burning out on constant anxiety. It was like someone took my blinders off. It made so much sense. My PTSD and OCD are causing periods of depression.

We'll see how this train of thought plays out but sometimes when you hear an idea you just know it's true and that's how this observation felt.

Cyran0

Hey, guys, check this out. Not flattering :-) but I find it interesting:

http://www.uky.edu/~bostrom/compulsive.html

That is interesting but I don't seem to qualify as a compulsive talker because I do listen and nobody seems to identify the amount that I talk as a problem (the crass things I sometimes say has been identified as a problem).

Cyran0

Oh, I didn't look up "crass thing sayer" :-)

I have a good friend who is a compulsive talker and we all just "laugh" at her and tease her about it and she knows it's a problem. I think there are people who are compulsive talkers who don't know it and get defensive if someone tries to "help" them see it.

I've found frustration can be eased by a bit of humor so I look for that when I can remember to. This morning I was doing the bills with my husband and our system is complicated with investments, online bill paying that has to be checked and entered into the checkbook, etc. and I hate the little check register that comes with the checks so we got in a fight about that again. But then I left an automatic payment that I'd checked off the budget (I have to turn them "green" in Excel when they get paid :-) out of the checkbook so he had to point that out to me and I was just having a heck of a time. We work out on our new 3-season porch, a literal porch with huge windows that have screens in the summer to be like a screened porch but which we have closed and little electric heater going ,etc. My husband's "desk" out there is a picnic table. Well, I dropped the pen I was using, working on the checkbook into one of the cracks where the boards come together on the top of the picnic table and had trouble getting it out. We both started laughing and that broke all the tension of the bill paying. It was all just an unfortunate "hassle" today but not a serious or permanent state.

i agree with cyran0 - its not the amount of my talking, but what I say when I do talk lol. usually people get mad at my very very very very dry sense of humour, not how much I talk. When I was little I ALWAYS had "checkmarks" for talking from my teachers. They kept telling me that if I had another checkmark Id have to take ridlin. Then we moved and I went to another school and never had a problem since then. In fact, I went from D's and F's to straight A's. I think maybe its not always a problem on the talkers part, but how people perceive them. Because it was obvious that these teachers had something against me when theyre the only ones who saw a problem. Y'know what Im saying?