The reality of living with OCD isn’t
a penchant for tidiness and order,
it’s a debilitating condition whereintrusive thoughts can terrorise
your daily worldI
f you’ve ever suffered with
obsessive compulsive disorder
(OCD) and intrusive thoughts,
chances are you’ve come across
someone who has falsely
diagnosed themselves with it. Not in a
health anxiety way; someone who is ‘so
OCD’ because they like a clean house, or
are super-organised. But that’s where it
ends. Somebody who’s decided it’s a fun
word to describe someone’s silly, slightly
annoying personality traits.
When you live with OCD (and I say
‘live’ because it never leaves you, like an
uninvited, overpowering housemate,
who doesn’t pay rent), you understand it
isn’t a passing thought, or feeling. It’s a
constant intruder in your mind, affecting
your day from the moment you wake, to
the minute you close your eyes at night.Writing | Suz Yasemin Selçuk>>>
Breaking free
from my obsessive
compulsive
thoughts