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Um, hi, I want help... Ok, i have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) which means you're really obsessed with doing things like washing your hands and taking a bath like so many times a day just to get rid of germs (yeah you need to). But sometimes you just do it even if you don't need to. I am also obsessive about locking doors. I think this can turn into depression. I'm trying to fight it. I don't wanna tell anyone but my really close friends cause I don't like expressing myself. And I wouldn't like taking pills or anything cause my mom is a nurse and she said that sometimes it can make it worse. How can i stop myself from doing things i don't really want to do. I do it even though i don't really want to cause I just force myself to. Soo... please give me your advice! I need help!
~Shy girl~ (link)
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I have OCD as well. Mine, however, manifests itself with the immense need to see things done properly, completely devoid of stupidity. Unfortunately, there isn't much of a repreive from this. Now, while that may be only one symptom of the mental illness, and only one of them, it will not go away untreated. While I may not be a doctor, I don't really see any evidence of a person with such a mental illness ever freeing themselves from without any help whatsoever. Should you really wish to be free of it, I must suggest you go on medication. Granted, you mother is mostly right; ninety-nine times out of one hundred, you will see the person's personality change as a result of the medication that they are taking. Thusly, I'm afraid you will have to come to terms with this, and take some medication, or suck it up and bathe three times a day.
Sorry.
Also, I find it quite disturbing that one should call it a "mental illness" merely becuase its not the norm.
Yay society.
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