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.