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Living with both OCD and OCPD is a real bitch sometimes...

Most of you probably already know that OCD means Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. OCPD is related, but a little different. It means Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder. The difference is that OCD will make you straighten a picture frame when someone bumps it a little. OCPD will cause you to become pissed off by it to the point that you might punch the person that bumped it.

And I have both.

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Added:	13 years, 2 months ago 04 Sep 2012 17:30 CEST

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40ozhyena

13 years, 2 months ago

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*fuzzle*

Gobby

13 years, 2 months ago

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Edited 13 years, 2 months ago by Owner

Yeesh. I was diagnosed with acute OCD, but Paxil makes it pretty non-existent. It's possible that SSRI's may help in treating it, if you're not on one already. It won't "cure" you, but it might make it more manageable.

axlegear

13 years, 2 months ago

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Drugs. Massive quantities of drugs. It's the American way.

Foxpiper

13 years, 2 months ago

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What types of treatment have you been receiving for both disorders?

Bluewag

13 years, 2 months ago

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Actually diagnosed?

MadDog

13 years, 2 months ago

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I've always found three things help for it, and I list them in the order I've understood them. 1. Medication. Unlike a bunch of other conditions, I list it first because I see it makes the biggest impact. Meds just seem to take the tunnelvision out of it. 2. big-picture viewing. Reminding oneself that in the bigger picture the item isn't an enormous problem. This varies in effectiveness based on one's rationale and fixation. 3. Removal/distraction. Don't be in the room with the picture frame, or hang around the guy who's gonna constantly bump the walls if you know it's gonna tilt the frame and tick you off.

I'll add if 2 and 3 seem effective, 1 may be less crucial, but in clients I've dealt with who grappled with strong OCD issues, it makes the biggest change. 1 just carries issues of side effects and, at least in my case, not really wanting to take meds for something that seems to be who I am. I'm not OCD, at least not to any diagnosable extent. I'm more talking in the broader sense. And again, I'm not suggesting any of these as anything that's needed. I don't have enough direct insight into the situation. Just things I've found helped with people who grappled with issues like that.

DarwentheOrca

13 years, 2 months ago

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My mind suddenly went to Robocop with all these acronyms. ;)

XanderZzyzx

13 years, 2 months ago

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At first I thought you said COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and that had me really worried. But then I read it more carefully and it was just me being dyslexic again. Even then, OCD and OCPD aren't much better either. I didn't know that you had suffered from that disorder, but the only thing I can recommend is perhaps seeking out counseling and see if talking to a professional can help you keep the disorder at bay.

ReverbTailspin

13 years, 2 months ago

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No Joke, when I googled what OCD was, I think I might have it. Does it count if someone turned the channel on my t.v. and I punched them in the stomach?

OnyxTanuki

13 years, 2 months ago

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So that means you'll use the picture frame to beat them up and then make sure it's properly set back in place at a 90 degree angle with the floor? After making sure to clean any blood that got on the frame off, of course.

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