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Having OCD During A Pandemic
It’s no secret to anyone that reads this blog regularly, that I have OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).
I have lived with this condition for many years, and have been through both good and bad patches.
What passes as ‘good’ for me, is somewhat different to what ‘normal’ people experience, but the good patches for me are when I only get mild anxiety about touching things that I don’t know are safe, and when I can get through my rituals with only a few attempts.
During the bad patches I will often repeat rituals so many times that I lose count, and am almost in tears from frustration. I find myself washing my hands so much that they are dry and cracked and bleeding. I have also burnt them, using scalding hot water to try and make myself feel clean.
All of this is bad enough, right?!
But then, throw this current situation of a global pandemic, and there’s the potential for things to really get scary.
And it is scary- we’ve never in any of our lifetimes, seen or experienced a situation quite like this. It is completely unprecedented, and still new to us all.
Suddenly, everyone and their uncle are washing their hands like there’s no…
