Confessions of an Office Worker: Before, during and after a Pandemic

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Others get cold and flu from people coughing and sneezing into the air around them, it is unavoidable. As a severe OCD sufferer, this is a very unsettling bit of news, I only pray that within my lifetime a cure is actually found for this demonic condition.

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Anxiety is normally an indicator of danger, an emotion that signals something is wrong and needs attention to avert a problem or catastrophe.Instead you can say, “Oh yeah, that is just what OCD does,” and refuse to give it any time or energy. There is no difference between me and my OCD clients in terms of the weird content that shows up in our heads. Sometimes we don't know the meaning of what life throws at us until well after it throws stuff at us. You can see medical professionals for your health complaints, and you can lower anxiety levels by letting them do their job.

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In your case, sitting with uncertainty and facing your fears about HIV, will lead to less concern that these actions are possible. The problem with OCD is that these thoughts make the sufferer uncomfortable and they feel guilty for having them, when non-sufferers can enjoy these thoughts or just let them float away without much attention. On top of all of that, I was really needing physical intimacy and affirmation, because I felt a ton of pressure to provide for us and didn't have anyone else to rely on.You may also be engaging in compulsions in response to your fear such as checking Facebook to make sure nothing unwanted was posted. His staff worked late hours due to the time difference with the US, so there were few other people around to ask questions about what they were up to. She had absolutely no drive at the time, and I expressed to her that I needed intimacy in this time and that if she was unable to provide that, then I would likely be seeking that from someone else.

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I think you make some great points in this article and your article about “the solving ritual” The bottom line is: I think people with OCD are more sensitive to alarms in the environment.I have a hard time coming to terms with how horrible a person I was for doing this, how easy it was for me to get sucked into it. I created a dummy Facebook account and tried to tell his wife, but he somehow managed to explain it away. Meanwhile, I left my marriage and began the tortuous work of legally extricating myself and my kids from a dangerous situation.