[Lupa]

I get so frustrated that the things I want to do gets delayed or put on hold because of OCD. I start having thoughts that I wont have as much time as other people to achieve my goals and get depressed.

How do others manage losing the time it takes to do your obsessions and compulsions to more important things you want to do in life?

[CANDC]

Lupa, an executive was asked the reason for her success. The exec said: "I sit down and make a list of the top 10 things I have to do. Then I number them 1-10 in the order of priority. Then I start working on number one. When I get to the end of the day if I haven't completed #1 I work on it the next day. If I finish early, I start on #2."
It impressed me how simple this is - even I can do that! lol

[Perna]

Hi, Lupa, welcome to PsychCentral (PC). I use my negative thoughts and habits to help me where I can by figuring out how to work around them. I could never read my textbooks because of anxiety so I switched to writing and surfing the Web about those subjects. Now I write better because of all that practice and I'm an excellent researcher and I got A's in my subjects when I was in school.

I do not know what your goals are but it sounds like you are concerned about time. I would think of ways to use time "differently", so you learn to do complicated math or accounting problems at the grocery store or create a situation like Barbara Ehrenreich did in her book Barbara Ehrenreich | Nickel and Dimed and deliberately do not-so-fun activities to get somewhere larger.

[Feluram]

Originally Posted by Lupa

I get so frustrated that the things I want to do gets delayed or put on hold because of OCD. I start having thoughts that I wont have as much time as other people to achieve my goals and get depressed.

How do others manage losing the time it takes to do your obsessions and compulsions to more important things you want to do in life?

@Lupa We don't get the time back, we spend on OCD..to put it bluntly. Our priorities suffer as we are constantly distracted and productivity also goes down. But as we get it sorted, we can work for the lost time. May be reaching our goals get delayed, still we can reach it if we truly want.
OCD isn't a part-time distraction, it can cause more trouble if we carry on with the suffering.