How considering coping with obsessive compulsive disorder is an option open in helping you endure the symptoms of OCD rather than wait for a complete cure. However with today’s modern medicine, therapies and access to counselling sessions more patients are finding much relief from a condition which depending on severity can be disabling in more ways than one. There are many different types of compulsions and repetitive actions repeated by a sufferer of OCD, so therefore treatments will vary for each individual. Because of personal experience I can only speak on the cleaning obsession of which I have lived with for over 35 years so coping for me was easier than waiting for a complete cure.
It is said that approximately 2% of the population suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder which is quite a high figure, but the frightening thing is the bigger number left of the population that don’t and even more worrying do not understand, because of ignorance from the outsider absent of the illness (not all) makes any suffering more insufferable. All an outsider sees is abnormal behaviour being sanctioned where now the person with obsessive compulsive disorder is labelled the mad man.
If you have the OCD type where you feel compelled to carry out chores around the house even though your body through fatigue cries out for help then you have to listen to your body signals, if you don’t it can cause more harm than good. If any one should know, I should, fancy me telling you to listen up while I type and dust the keyboard at the same time. A person suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder will not welcome those that impose a threat upon them i.e. interruptions which puts stop to their compulsions being carried out or worse still should they hear the words “leave it or do it tomorrow” How many of you with the cleaning type OCD can relate to having a sweeping brush in one hand a mop in the other and speedily racing along to get another one of those ten tasks you are juggling in thought to do next.
Can you on retiring to bed ignore the cushions not being fluffed up or leave those couple of water drips on the draining board till morning, if not then you have a problem, so it is important that you speak to your doctor.
A person suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder normally in a funny sort of way leads a reclusive sort of life, meaning they choose not to have visitors for fear of disruption to those fluffed up cushions. Shoes are another fear factor and heaven forbid should the sun shine then all hell breaks lose in thought i.e. all that dust settling in places you had only just that minute polished. Sweeping the garden can be a chore in itself where the cleaning process does not end at the garden gate, heaven help you if your street is over a mile long.
How you cope with your OCD will differ from that of how others cope but I found after 35 years and no guarantee of a complete cure was to cut down, instead of ten jobs in thought, narrow it down to five, sweeping brush in hand but mop left in the bucket, as for the cushions thrown away and the water drips on the side came from having a late night drink of which is now not drunk, so there you have it in a nutshell the way to cope is to slow down.
"Oops" I forgot to mention having a granddaughter is the closest I have come to being completely cured because, with all the aches and pains from running round after a eighteen month old has left me to tired to pick up the dolls,teddy bears, balls,biscuit crumbs and not to mention mopping up the spilt orange juice and retrieving the bread and jam from out of the VCR, hey what do you know "I am cured".
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