Comments on: Henry’s Story http://www.incertus.imntb.com/2008/04/03/henrys-story/ The Weblog of Doubt and Other Disorders - Living With OCD Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:17:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: scott http://www.incertus.imntb.com/2008/04/03/henrys-story/#comment-8290 scott Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:36:32 +0000 http://www.incertus.imntb.com/2008/04/03/henrys-story/#comment-8290 I stumbled across this site at work looking for someone who has even the slightest, remotest similarities as myself and wow, Henry's story is as close as i have found. Im 28, i have suffered with loads and loads of different OCD symptoms myself since i was about 13. Starting off with the classic of something stuck in my mind - a bit like when you know you have to wash tohe dishes - but there was nothing i needed to do. until i was about 16 this destroyed me having a constant "thing" on my mind which woyuld be there for hours and hours. As i grew up this horrible illness would manifest into me convincing myself i was every kind of sick son of a bitch going - just so i knew that if anyone knew what i was thinking they would never speak to me. I would however make myself tell the people closest to me of these sick depraved thoughts or they would never go away. Recently - and most painfully - it has got to the point where i put myself off my own girlfriend. Everything was going well for a few months and now i pick fault at stupid little things in my mind. I make myself convinced i dont love her and find it difficult to be close to her when all of this was no problem at all a few weeks ago. This is not the first time my mind has sabotaged a relationship but as every day passes it makes me feel further gone and scares me i wont be able to get back to how i was. I have my first therapy session booked for sept 11th and am hoping that whoever i see can do something to help me. The tablets i have been prescribed (fluvoxetine) are doing very little. I have faith that with hard work and commitment myself and others can put this stupid illness behind us and finally get on and enjoy life. I genuinely believe as much as we make ourselves think otherwise or act otherwise, OCD sufferers are very honest, trustworthy people. I stumbled across this site at work looking for someone who has even the slightest, remotest similarities as myself and wow, Henry’s story is as close as i have found. Im 28, i have suffered with loads and loads of different OCD symptoms myself since i was about 13. Starting off with the classic of something stuck in my mind - a bit like when you know you have to wash tohe dishes - but there was nothing i needed to do. until i was about 16 this destroyed me having a constant “thing” on my mind which woyuld be there for hours and hours. As i grew up this horrible illness would manifest into me convincing myself i was every kind of sick son of a bitch going - just so i knew that if anyone knew what i was thinking they would never speak to me. I would however make myself tell the people closest to me of these sick depraved thoughts or they would never go away. Recently - and most painfully - it has got to the point where i put myself off my own girlfriend. Everything was going well for a few months and now i pick fault at stupid little things in my mind. I make myself convinced i dont love her and find it difficult to be close to her when all of this was no problem at all a few weeks ago. This is not the first time my mind has sabotaged a relationship but as every day passes it makes me feel further gone and scares me i wont be able to get back to how i was. I have my first therapy session booked for sept 11th and am hoping that whoever i see can do something to help me. The tablets i have been prescribed (fluvoxetine) are doing very little. I have faith that with hard work and commitment myself and others can put this stupid illness behind us and finally get on and enjoy life. I genuinely believe as much as we make ourselves think otherwise or act otherwise, OCD sufferers are very honest, trustworthy people.

]]> By: Bekah http://www.incertus.imntb.com/2008/04/03/henrys-story/#comment-8284 Bekah Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:33:11 +0000 http://www.incertus.imntb.com/2008/04/03/henrys-story/#comment-8284 Wow, I really like your story along with the comments. It's almost critical in suffering with OCD to treat your OCD as a whole other being, making sure to say "My OCD" etc, or you can seemingly get so lost up in it that it devours your whole life, as it seems we all have experienced. I'm 24 as well, and have had OCD for a very long time. It is a mind rapist, it convinces your own mind to destroy your life and happiness. We have to fight against it, learn to hate it. Which isn't something I usually would preach, but it's almost essential to treat it as so. Never forget who you are, and what is in your heart. My doctor once said that if he were given the decision on what one characteristic to pick to go along with a random human that he were to put his trust and innermost secrets in, he would pick a human with OCD, because we are top of the line, good, genuine people. Wow, I really like your story along with the comments. It’s almost critical in suffering with OCD to treat your OCD as a whole other being, making sure to say “My OCD” etc, or you can seemingly get so lost up in it that it devours your whole life, as it seems we all have experienced. I’m 24 as well, and have had OCD for a very long time. It is a mind rapist, it convinces your own mind to destroy your life and happiness. We have to fight against it, learn to hate it. Which isn’t something I usually would preach, but it’s almost essential to treat it as so. Never forget who you are, and what is in your heart. My doctor once said that if he were given the decision on what one characteristic to pick to go along with a random human that he were to put his trust and innermost secrets in, he would pick a human with OCD, because we are top of the line, good, genuine people.

]]> By: Aisha http://www.incertus.imntb.com/2008/04/03/henrys-story/#comment-8283 Aisha Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:01:41 +0000 http://www.incertus.imntb.com/2008/04/03/henrys-story/#comment-8283 I am 24 years of age. OCD can only take over only if you allow it yo. I know you are thinking she must not have OCD as bad as mine. Trust me I do. I am not going to get into how OCD has tried to destroy me because I believe to write about it is to obsess about it and anybody that has OCD knows that talking about OCD will not do you one bit of good. I believe we are special people that are highly intelligent. The only problem is we have used are obsessions for the worse, to torment us but you can turn OCD around so that it benefits you. Trust me God knows our pain. Don't you ever wonder why as bad as things get, thru the panick attacks when your pulse is tachying away at 160 bpm, and you have cried so much that you can not cry another tear, we always make it thru some how. That is nothing but God carrying us. Thru all the handwashing, toilet flushing, numbers counting, disease obsessing, heavy hearted guilt eating, Jesus has our backs. One thing that has helped me is quotes that I say thru all the hard times. let me share with you my two favorite, I have three but my OCD says that is a bad #number. I am sure some people with OCD can relate!(lol) "Sometimes the only sense you can make out of life is a sense of humor" "Do not go by your feelings go by your knowledge. For the truth shall set you free from OCD!" Hang in there my fellow OCDians, you will make it thru. God's mercy kept me and it can do the same thing for you! May God Bless each and every one on you And remember feeling sorry for yourself gets old, channel that energy to find coping mechanisms so you may enjoy life once again! PEACE AND HAPPINESS 2 Each and every 1 of u I am 24 years of age. OCD can only take over only if you allow it yo. I know you are thinking she must not have OCD as bad as mine. Trust me I do. I am not going to get into how OCD has tried to destroy me because I believe to write about it is to obsess about it and anybody that has OCD knows that talking about OCD will not do you one bit of good. I believe we are special people that are highly intelligent. The only problem is we have used are obsessions for the worse, to torment us but you can turn OCD around so that it benefits you. Trust me God knows our pain. Don’t you ever wonder why as bad as things get, thru the panick attacks when your pulse is tachying away at 160 bpm, and you have cried so much that you can not cry another tear, we always make it thru some how. That is nothing but God carrying us. Thru all the handwashing, toilet flushing, numbers counting, disease obsessing, heavy hearted guilt eating, Jesus has our backs. One thing that has helped me is quotes that I say thru all the hard times. let me share with you my two favorite, I have three but my OCD says that is a bad #number. I am sure some people with OCD can relate!(lol)

“Sometimes the only sense you can make out of life is a sense of humor”

“Do not go by your feelings go by your knowledge. For the truth shall set you free from OCD!”

Hang in there my fellow OCDians, you will make it thru. God’s mercy kept me and it can do the same thing for you!

May God Bless each and every one on you

And remember feeling sorry for yourself gets old, channel that energy to find coping mechanisms so you may enjoy life once again!

PEACE AND HAPPINESS 2 Each and every 1 of u

]]> By: Carla Pettezzoni Delman http://www.incertus.imntb.com/2008/04/03/henrys-story/#comment-8256 Carla Pettezzoni Delman Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:41:08 +0000 http://www.incertus.imntb.com/2008/04/03/henrys-story/#comment-8256 Hi, My name is Carla, and I am brazilian. I was very surprised when i read Henry's letter..His OCD symptons are so much like mine, and i will feel the same way henry does, when it comes to dealing with this thing that OCD is...like Henry , I just won't feel the need or a reason to get out of bed every morning myself...I too distort reality, and some of the time OCD will try to get me to believe in things that definitely aren't there, and I'll start thinking I am losing my mind...right now this deep depression is getting to me. I have no friends to turn to, my family won't nderstand how this OCD thing will interfere with mylife, i have no social life at all, haven't had engaged in a realtionship in several years now; i am a loner myself , dealing with this monster that OCD has become in my life. To make things worse, I am unemployed, and will barely have any money to live on myself. I just want henry to know that he is not alone on this battle field, I mean, i am the same, I mean his OCD symptons are very much alike mine, and when i read his letter on here it felt as though I had written it myself instead. Hi,
My name is Carla, and I am brazilian. I was very surprised when i read Henry’s letter..His OCD symptons are so much like mine, and i will feel the same way henry does, when it comes to dealing with this thing that OCD is…like Henry , I just won’t feel the need or a reason to get out of bed every morning myself…I too distort reality, and some of the time OCD will try to get me to believe in things that definitely aren’t there, and I’ll start thinking I am losing my mind…right now this deep depression is getting to me. I have no friends to turn to, my family won’t nderstand how this OCD thing will interfere with mylife, i have no social life at all, haven’t had engaged in a realtionship in several years now; i am a loner myself , dealing with this monster that OCD has become in my life. To make things worse, I am unemployed, and will barely have any money to live on myself. I just want henry to know that he is not alone on this battle field, I mean, i am the same, I mean his OCD symptons are very much alike mine, and when i read his letter on here it felt as though I had written it myself instead.

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