Found a great bio about OCD!
candy-24:
There’s a quote I wanted to share from it:
“OCD sufferers, as a general rule, care more than most about what others think of them. We are known to be reward - dependent (where the reward is someone else’s approval) and have tender consciences. As a group, we are law abiding, conscientious, exquisetly self-conscience and eager to please. We set ourselves the highest standards and we are disgusted with ourselves when we don’t live up to them. We are forever scanning our own faces for flaws and other people’s faces for signs of disapproval. We cannot forgive ourselves for ever having acted stupidly; we cannot bear to make a mistake, We can be destroyed by the merest hint of criticism but we criticize ourselves all the time.”
The Woman Who Thought Too Much - Joanne Limburg
I definitely thought this described me well, haha! Although trying to work through it and get out of those habits :) The book is really good so far!
This is a brilliant submission candy-24! That fits me to a T. I think I’m gonna have to give that book a read!
- Nathan
In this blog, author Joanne Limburg touches on the benefits and drawbacks of being diagnosed with a mental illness, specifically OCD, and some of the things she says relate to what I experienced when slapped (kind of) with this label. The mantra, “It’s not me; it’s my OCD” has consistently been a way of distancing my anxious behaviors from my character - a way of (as Limburg says) “keeping [the behaviors] in their place. And like Limburg, I see a diagnosis as a useful way of explaining some of my behaviors but not as an excuse for every fucked-up thing I do. Anyway, I thought this blog was worth reading as a way to put diagnosis into perspective. Fuck you, cutting. Even you seem less crazy and frightening when viewed in light of an anxiety disorder.
I too, found this an interesting read. Mantra’s aren’t always a good thing though because that eventually turns into reassurance and it’s important with OCD to live with an open mind and literally accept ALL possibilities, or it’s not proper acceptance. That being said, this link puts things into perspectives well. Good luck in recovery.
- Nathan
