Living life on the edge: Me and my crazy life

This was so interesting to read! I haven't met or known anyone with OCD- so I feel that this blog is very educational and an eye opener of how it's like, living with OCD!

so glad that you're able to explain OCD and share your experiences with us!! Can't wait to read the next blog!!

Thankyou!!!! I appreciate you taking the time to read it!
Im glad ivd helped you to understand it more. Theres still more to it than this but this is more the surface and what i go through.

Im glad youve enjoyed reading it. I think its fairly unique but its awful to live with. But there are people out there who have it a lot worse than i do!!
Thanks!! I look forward to writing it!

It's such an eye opener and I feel like I could learn so much more from your blog! I think it's so great what you're doing


Keep up the good work and I can't wait to read more!

Subscribing!

Thankyou!!! I take it you enjoyed it?

Well I don't enjoy the fact you have OCD, obviously (totes didn't realise it affects 10% of the population btw ) but it's great to see you doing a blog

Its not a great thing to have tbh.
Yeah i learnt that in therapy. Suprising isnt it!?
Thanks. Im glad you took the time to read it. I really appreciate it!

My pleasure to read it - you write well

Something I would be interested to read in particular, is how friends and family of people with OCD can best support them whilst they are experiencing symptoms. A friend of mine has a milder form of OCD than you but there were times where he couldn't leave his room. I tried my best to support him and be kind and help him do whatever compulsive behaviours he needed to do, but I wasn't sure if I was doing the right thing.

I no longer live with/near him but any pointers from you would be very helpful

Thanks!

I am gonna do en extra post later in the week to put in the extra stuff about OCD that i couldnt put in this one!
But with youre friend, you shouldnt really help him to do his rituals. This is because all this will do it keep it going and will make the OCD worse! You should try to prevent him from carrying out these rituals and try to keep him calm. This is the only way to fight OCD. It will feel horrible for him to start with but if he keeps it up, he will improve and continue to improve until he feels better!

But i will cover it in a bit more detail in the next post!

Good point, I hadn't really thought of it like that. I hope I didn't make anything worse for him in the long run

I dont think youll have made it worse. It wont have got any better.
But you didnt know so thats ok.
Its hard to overcome it so he'll need a lot of support!!

Yeah, sadly I hardly see him these days so I don't know whether his OCD tendencies are still being problematic for him in his daily life. It's something he doesn't talk about but obviously coz we were at uni and living in close proximity and stuff, I did notice it at the time.

Glad you don't think I'd have made it any worse at least

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Sorry for replying late... I had revision and such to do but I had read it when you tagged me.

I'm so sorry you had to go through all that and it was affecting you in all aspects of life. Thank you so much for putting this up because it is an eye-opener to what people with OCD have to go through because we all have different ideas but not on how serious it is...

Look forward to the next post and I'm watching the thread (In a not-so-creepy way)

Its ok, revision is super important!!

Its not great tbh but im getting through it!
I wanted people to realize what OCD can really be like.
I enjoyed writing it up and may put up another post tomorrow to finish off with the OCD aspect of the blog.
Thankyou for reading it btw. Greatly appreciated!

Thank you for putting it up

And yes it's a great idea. We have so many thoughts and ideas from what we read or see on tv but never a real insight from someone who is actually going through it.

Look forward to the next installment