About Me
My name is Ruben. I am in my mid thirties right now and I have been suffering with OCD ever since I am 5 years old. My education background is Bachelor in Information Technology (Hons) and MSc in Information Technology. Currently working in a multinational company as a System Analyst. In my younger days, you can see the odd OCD behaviours openly as it being reflected in action physically. As time goes by, when I was growing up when more people notice all the abnormal behaviours that I was performing. As people laugh and scorn at you, I manage to control and supress 95% of the OCD actions such as repeated hand washing etc. However, after a while, those OCD symptoms transformed it self into negative thoughts and thus I began a long battle with OCD thoughts until today and I am trying to help my self with self discovering of what is OCD, read more about OCD, trying some self helps for OCD and at the same time share my feelings and sufferings of OCD to the world via this blog. At last I can spill out all my reservations and fears about OCD openly without anyone knowing that it was me. You see I have a strong education backgroung and having a good career but OCD does not spare me. I am looking perfectly normal to the world but deep inside, i am hurt and wounded and full of untold pains. I hope that you are not having OCD. If you have it too, then please leave a comment or two for us to share and learn.
Dear Ruben, the same very things happen to me, too: the story with the parked car, the story with the elephant leg ( well, it wasn’t exactly the elephant leg desease, because we don’t have either elephants or this particular desease – but we have others. So the form of a little different, but the content was the same). An interesting fact: I am also a Systems Analyst! Could this be relevant? Maybe our brain is just shaped in a certain way! LOL
I think te best option to cure are the self help methods. I am myself suffering from it dont know for how long but you can learn and use NLP,EFT ,Cognitive therapy and relaxation techniques which will be very useful to you.
Thanks
dude i know how u feel because i have had the exact same problems and many more. Damn they never end. I am 21 and recently I have found a cure to all these problems. It may not sound pleasant or maybe you don’t believe in it, but for it has shown good results. I have been doing pranayama. Believe me its notching to do with religion. Pranayama somehow cures the mind. It changes the way you think and react and in time you start to act rationally and as you called it normal. G\ive it a try. I guess you tried all the other methods. Maybe this cn help you.
I also suffer from OCD, am in my 50’s & still searching. I may try equisync!
good swarup pranayama worked for you but it didnt for me which pranayama are you doin m suffering from last 30 yrs.can advice me on giireisp@gmail.com