Reply To: I remember when….😁

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Hi sorry just saw this I am off and on this site and only pop in once in a while.

I don’t think I have ever really broken any of my issues. One in particular though I found a way through (although might be a bad way to do it) but I often cat sit for friends when they away on holidays cause they know me well and I’m close with them and I never told them but caused me massive anxiety. If I ever left their house, I would count the cats (3) and make sure they had food and water and make sure everything was turned off, I’d check every room, every socket, check for anything possibly that could harm them until I returned. Then I would lock the door, then check I locked the door then go to my car then panic ‘ooooh poo what if I forgot something?’ back on the house count the cats, recheck everything, lock the door, check the door sit in car and be like yup checked everything go to leave and get very cross because I can’t leave. Go back and re check everything. This could go on for a long time. What I do now is record everything. Record each cat, record I’m every room to show everything is off, record myself locking the door and leave. Fight my thoughts Ive forgotten something and just leave knowing if I really can’t fight it any longer I have the recording on my phone. I see that as a small win my OCD affects me in much worse ways but think that is a little win.

OCD led me to one of the proudest moments of my life, when I was much younger something I did was walk up and down my stairs in the house before I left for school, this could go on for a long time and if it wasn’t for all them steps I wouldn’t have won rear of the year 2 years running in an old workplace so OCD has its benefits! I also do talks on OCD in my workplace to different divisions so highlight mental health issues so I do have some positives to come from having OCD.