dear GloomyGirl, firstly can I say to you that you, me and all the other people suffering from OCD are still human, but we have an illness, but this doesn't make us abnormal, because we do everything that other people do.
There are two extremes of OCD, one is total cleanliness, and keeping it clean although there's no need because it's spotless, but with this illness we have to go over it again and again, washing and vaccuming all the time.
The other end is where people can be not so much hoarders, or this does come into it, but they collect whatever junk they can, and you might have seen these type of people on TV, where eventually the council comes in and takes everything away.
Sending texts and wondering whether you have sent them or not, so what do we do, we send another one, this and everything else does point to OCD, sorry I just had to qualify this, but at the beginning I knew that you had it.
I'm interested in whether it has been passed onto you from past generations, and sorry mum, but I also have to ask whether anyone else has it, because my eldest son has it.
You should mention it to your doctor, who may suggest seeing a psychologist.
I take a SSRI antidepressant which is for OCD and depression, but it hasn't stopped me from doing these habits/rituals, and I am in two minds about having CBT therapy.
I did an online course to help with this illness, which wasn't too bad, but as soon it finished I had to concentrate on what I had learnt, but there were times when this was impossible, so I gave up.
I'm running out of characters, but I would like to tell you that anything I did when I was a youngster, I don't do any more, so what you are now doing you might not do as you grow older.
Really like to hear from you. Geoff. x
