What have you done today?

[odeon]

Kill Bill is a very good film to watch when you feel homicidal.

["couldbecousin"]

I've begun climbing up out of a mental slump! 

['andersom']

I've begun climbing up out of a mental slump! 

[SBI_Patience]

Went outside for a good long walk, could of had a nap but it seems I'm stuck on the computer waiting for my girlfriend to come online.

[Callaway]

If I didn't I would dive myself nuts. Knowing that odeon, Parts and the rest of you, or most of you, on here have spazz episodes definitely makes it easier.

I think everybody has days like that.

[Parts]

If I didn't I would dive myself nuts. Knowing that odeon, Parts and the rest of you, or most of you, on here have spazz episodes definitely makes it easier.

I think everybody has days like that.

I have been having lots of those days lately

It is good to know others do too and to be able to laugh at yourself after at times

[Callaway]

Technically this was yesterday, but I met with my doc. He didn't want to prescribe new meds to me.

Why not? 

He didn't think they'd help, I suppose. He urged me to contact a CBT therapist instead.

Here's a book that helped me a lot:

http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Obsessing-OvercomeObsessions-Compulsions/dp/0553353500

One of my current OCD problems is that I get stuck on reading, thinking I can't understand the words, so this is going to be tough. Think ADD meets OCD and you have some idea of what it's like.

Does it help to have a dictionary nearby when you read?

[odeon]

Technically this was yesterday, but I met with my doc. He didn't want to prescribe new meds to me.

Why not? 

He didn't think they'd help, I suppose. He urged me to contact a CBT therapist instead.

Here's a book that helped me a lot:

http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Obsessing-OvercomeObsessions-Compulsions/dp/0553353500

One of my current OCD problems is that I get stuck on reading, thinking I can't understand the words, so this is going to be tough. Think ADD meets OCD and you have some idea of what it's like.

Does it help to have a dictionary nearby when you read?

No, I'd have that same problem with the dictionary because it happens once I think about it. Funny thing is that I have no problems reading here, right now. My doc says it's my OCD acting up but when it started happening last year I thought I had Alzheimers or something.

["couldbecousin"]

Technically this was yesterday, but I met with my doc. He didn't want to prescribe new meds to me.

Why not? 

He didn't think they'd help, I suppose. He urged me to contact a CBT therapist instead.

Here's a book that helped me a lot:

http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Obsessing-OvercomeObsessions-Compulsions/dp/0553353500

One of my current OCD problems is that I get stuck on reading, thinking I can't understand the words, so this is going to be tough. Think ADD meets OCD and you have some idea of what it's like.

Does it help to have a dictionary nearby when you read?

No, I'd have that same problem with the dictionary because it happens once I think about it. Funny thing is that I have no problems reading here, right now. My doc says it's my OCD acting up but when it started happening last year I thought I had Alzheimers or something.

Every time I forget something that I've known for years, however trivial it is, I wonder if I am getting Alzheimer's too. 

[odeon]

I don't think Alzheimer's would present like this, though, and neither did my doc.

["couldbecousin"]

I don't think Alzheimer's would present like this, though, and neither did my doc.

That's good to hear. My psychiatrist didn't think I needed to worry either. Still, I don't like this forgetting business. 

[odeon]

I don't think Alzheimer's would present like this, though, and neither did my doc.

That's good to hear. My psychiatrist didn't think I needed to worry either. Still, I don't like this forgetting business. 

No, it's pretty awful.

This is more about me thinking that I don't know what the words mean, though. Well, I think so.

["couldbecousin"]

I don't think Alzheimer's would present like this, though, and neither did my doc.

That's good to hear. My psychiatrist didn't think I needed to worry either. Still, I don't like this forgetting business. 

No, it's pretty awful.

This is more about me thinking that I don't know what the words mean, though. Well, I think so.

For a brief period at about age 13, I was very compulsive about reading all my notes, from all my classes, every night, from the beginning. As the term went on, that got to be a LOT of notes. And if I lost my concentration while reading, I would go all the way back and start over. I wasn't really studying in an effective way, just going through a pointless and rather punishing OCD exercise. Reading in that very self-conscious way can definitely begin to make things NOT make sense, it all begins to look like    ...which could probably make you question your comprehension skills.

[odeon]

I don't think Alzheimer's would present like this, though, and neither did my doc.

That's good to hear. My psychiatrist didn't think I needed to worry either. Still, I don't like this forgetting business. 

No, it's pretty awful.

This is more about me thinking that I don't know what the words mean, though. Well, I think so.

For a brief period at about age 13, I was very compulsive about reading all my notes, from all my classes, every night, from the beginning. As the term went on, that got to be a LOT of notes. And if I lost my concentration while reading, I would go all the way back and start over. I wasn't really studying in an effective way, just going through a pointless and rather punishing OCD exercise. Reading in that very self-conscious way can definitely begin to make things NOT make sense, it all begins to look like    ...which could probably make you question your comprehension skills.

I've started translating stuff to Swedish while I read but that ruins the flow, obviously, and I start doubting myself for every word I don't translate, if that makes sense.

(I know, this whole thing doesn't make sense.)

[Adam]

My OCD doesn't relly affect my reading so I dunno what that;s like. I'm guessing it is pretty shitty for someone like you tho as you seem to be a big reader. I hve little obsessive compulsive things I get sometimes like having to re-read things, but not bad enough to be my OCD