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How illness effects my OCD

How illness effects my OCD.

It’s been a while since I last posted about OCD but this is something that keeps coming up in my life so I thought I’d put it down in writing.

My OCD is reasonably well managed these days, thanks to my meeds and the skills I have learned from my therapists and fellow suffers, but there are times when I resurges.

These times are when I’m physically unwell., such as now ( for the record, I’ve got flu. I’ll live ).

When you’re ill you’re tired and run down, everyone gets that, and it’s time like this that any mental illness has the opportunity to claw back any ground you have made on it.

For me this takes a few forms.

I get increased anxiety linked to guilt over being poorly and letting people down.

I get depressed about the situation being beyond my control.

I also get angry with myself for not doing more to give myself a chance of not doing down with whatever it is that is wrong with me at the time.

Now these things are feelings are hose that can occur in anyone, mentally ill or not, but as I have OCD they feed into my rituals and compulsions.

So what do I do?

I do a few things:

I remember to practice my mindfulness techniques.

I remind myself that the things that I mention above are examples of Faulty Thinking and are baseless.

And I get plenty of rest and do what I can to get over whatever is wrong with me quickly.

I doubt I’m alone in experiencing this kind of thing and the thing I try to remember, and that I would like to share, is that a lapse is not a relapse and despite how I may feel, I am ok and he grimness will pass.

Take care and stay safe my friends.

Today the UK Government displayed once more it’s failings to grasp why the populace feel so disillusioned with them.

Whether or not Ken Clarke was trying to open up a serious debate on sentancing lengths in relation to rape offences or not, what he did was demonstrate what is wrong with the governments approach to solving the financial situation.

Whilst the politicians and bankers created this mess that we are currently, as a country, trying to survive and fight our way out of the politicians seem to think that it is acceptable that those in the greatest need are going to feel the worst of the cuts and measures.
Why should those that require health care or require the assistance of law enforcement and the legal system be those who suffer the most whilst those in the industry that has got us here continue to make clear profit and reward themselves with practically tax-free bonuses.

I just don’t get it.

I know that sometimes in life that hard decisions have to be made and that some people are going to suffer because of those decisions some people are going to have a really tough time of it. But even the most difficult of decisions can be fair, and at the end of the day the current range of measures are only fair to the upper eschelons, as it were, of society.

I might not have all the answers, or indeed any of the answers, but I am damn sure that the right way to go about things is not to make life easier for those who break the law in the name of cutting costs whilst expecting those in need to simply bear the brunt of it.

I would have thought that it is possible to save money whilst still maintaining common sense and a touch of humanity?

But maybe I’m wrong.

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