What It’s Like To Have OCD

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The way other people talk or write about their OCD can help us understand and express our own OCD experience, and sometimes lighten our obsessive load with a bit of laughter.

A well-put phrase can also help the friends, and families of those with OCD better understand the tyranny of OCD symptoms.

Quotes About OCD

“It’s a thousand tiny impulses, building on one another. First you decide it’s a good idea to check the oatmeal bin for bugs. Next you’re going through all the canisters, and before you know it, you’re wearing a hazmat suit and examining the frosted flakes for ground-up glass.” ~ Jennifer Traig

“I do not have OCD OCD OCD.” ~ Emilie Autumn

“I put gloves on before I put gloves on, so I don’t get my gloves dirty.” ~ Jarod Kintz

“The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it’s true), they go to movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands...and all the time those birds [obsessions] are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh.” ~ Stephen King

“Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.”
~ Shannon I. Alder

“I’m trying to overcome my OCD by replacing my neurosis with three other letter.” ~ Jarod Kintz

“Imagine your in a busy airport with a 2 or 3 year old son, you turn around and then you turn back and your son is gone. That feeling of panic and anxiety is what people with OCD feel everyday due to intrusive thoughts. It gets to a point where its so horrible you carry out compulsions to prevent those thoughts from coming true, even though you know they are not real or even realistic sometimes.“ ~ unknown

“Torture is knowing something makes no sense, but doing it anyways.”
~ Corey Ann Haydu, OCD Love Story

“People who live with OCD drag a metal sea anchor around. Obsession is a break, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.” ~ David Adam

“OCD focuses on the negative. I didn’t think to myself, my praying will save my grandma. Instead, I thought, if I don’t pray, my grandma will die for sure.”
~ J. J. Keeler

“One thing which I can’t stress enough is that OCD is completely nonsensical and will not listen to reason. This is one of the most frightening things about having it...there are Salvador Dali paintings that make more sense.” ~ Joe Wells

“I’m so OCD that I sort the sort ofs out from the maybes.” ~ Jarod Kintz

“Though most of us will go to any length to hide our compulsions, we recognize one another. The guy using a paper towel to turn the restroom doorknob, the kid counting his eyelashes, the old man wearing Kleenex boxes for shoes...we are a secret tribe. We’re like Freemasons, except that our secret handshake is followed by a vigorous washing session.” ~ Jennifer Traig

“When you’re obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy...it’s like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.” ~ Jonny Wilkinson

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