I have suffered from OCD for some time now and generally manage well. I have recently reduced my medication and my repetitive behaviours are coming back. I am finding that not all of my compulsions are related to obsessions and I find myself engaging in these repetitive behaviours unconsciously. I have sought out some info on tics, however these seem to be involuntary. I don't know if my behaviours are involuntary. I certainly don't need to think about doing them...they just start themselves. I'm thinking they could just be a habit. I occasionally experienced a head jerk that I need to do and feel it coming on. It generally doesn't keep happening though. Only every now and then. My speech has been slightly off occasionally too - words coming out wrong mainly...not pronounced properly.
Has anyone had any experience with this? I have tried to do a bit of research on it but can't find much out there.
Hi KT, definitely not alone. Just thought I'd share I had a similar thing where instead of repeating the sentence I felt the need to repeat the sentence backwards- almost as if erasing it? So I guess we all have our things, but it was pretty exhausting especially cause I love reading and it really stopped me taking in the story. I got out of it but every now and then I find my brain automatically doing this with street signs and stuff, guess I'm still trying to break the habit but at least it's possible.
That's an interesting one Jellicoe! Glad I've never had to read backwards!! I'm not a big reader anymore. Compulsion kind of killed it for me but I don't think I'm a big reader in general.
I used to have to trace over individual letters multiple times when writing. I think that's a fairly common one. Literacy is hard with OCD!
How do you guys go about handling embarrassment or feeling self conscious about compulsions?
