Does anyone else have sensitivity issues?

I get very sensitive, and when it comes to TV- well i cant watch alot of the stuff on TV because of it. my sisters think i get a bit rediculous i think.

Know what i honestly tel myself may be silly but, works for me. That im just sensitive because i care so much, i mean perhaps God made me this way... I donno works for me heh

TV Does spike OCD Big time it is a huge problem...I see someone get killed and i can have thoughts of it, movies with sexual content esp rape and stuff..well lets say i can get into a serious problem..

Yes i am very sensitve and that causes a lot of spikes.

Today started out great and then i was talking with my brother and he said that he didnt like being involved in christianity and he was just in a real bad mood.This hit me pretty hard and when i got home i just started crying.I was also pretty bored this evening and was kinda down because of it.

It just happens sometimes.

i also get into a state over some programmes,i sift through the tv listings so i avoid the triggers......

oh my word I can really relate to this! I CAN NOT watch any kind of horror or scary movie of any kind or else I will obsess about it for weeks. I suppose that this could be a blessing in disguise... this way I only watch and read positive things

Yes, alot of times. After that I just watch happy things or play guitar or workout!

Internet--that's my weakness. So many vicious spikes have come from websites about torture and abductions and whatnot. And I know TV shows/movies are fake but I hate watching murders! Scary!

Yeah, I hate the fact that I can't watch certain things like I used too. Like I used to love watching all the Harry Potter movies, I waited for each one to come out, but my ocd got worse and I know I can't and shouldn't watch it anymore because watching witchraft is not good for my christianity and my walk with GOD and also because it will spike my ocd! I really have to be careful with everything I watch! Period! The weird thing is I used to love scary movies so much! I was like the only one to watch scary movies in my house, but now it's like I ABSOLUTELY HATE SCARY MOVIES!

stacii said:

I watched what I consider to be a disturbing program on tv the other day. I knew I shouldn't have watched it, but I did. Aside from triggering one of the worst OCD episodes that I have had in years, I cannot stop feeling down in general. It sort of triggered a depressive episode as well, even when I am not focusing on it at all.

Does anyone else experience this? If so, how do you deal with it?

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Yep Stacii, me too. The news can be hard to watch for me becaues these are real life scenario's. My OCD will tell me that I too am capable of committing whatever horrific crime that is being reported. Then if I start to debate that spike I can get into big trouble really fast. Instead I just have to stop and say... "Oh Hi there old friend.. nice try.. but I'm not gonna go there.. you are probably quite right any how.. tommorrow I'll begin my plans to commit this crime... I can hardly wait.. but meanwhile I think I'll have a pre-murder snack." In this way I'm taking the punch out of the spike instead of attending to it like it's sooo terribly important that I have to fight against it.
I also have a problem with what I refer to as "guilt by association" issues. If I get a stomach ache it is percieved to be a dangerous sign that I'm headed for a major relapse of my OCD. This is because when I'm in a bad flare I can't eat at all due to my gut reacting to the anxiety. I have a lot of these weird association episodes. I have even avoided wearing certain clothing because it reminds me of when I was in a bad state becaues I may have worn that item of clothing a lot during that time. I've even had to resist the urge to rearrange the furniture because the setting of particular rooms reminds me of being sick. Crazy stuff!
I don't know if any one else can relate to this but I thought I'd bring it up just to see if anyone else experiences this.
Didn't mean to hi-jack you're thread Stacii.. my apologies.
Mitzi

stacii said:

Mitzi - No worries about hijacking the thread. I feel much better after reading your comment. I also get the guilt by association feeling. I never realized it before, but since you pointed it out Iam definitely noticing that it's there often. Please keep your insight coming. I'm going to try to fight this thing.

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Hi Stacii,
Thanks for sharing with me that you have the "guilt by association" thing too. My latest one is that my husband keeps wanting to buy me an electric blanket for our cottage in the UP of MI. Very, very cold up here. Anyhow, I associate electric blankets with my OCD because when I was in a really bad state with it last winter in at our place downstate I used one a lot while sitting in our living room. I keep telling him that electric blankets make me feel like an invalid and he just gives me that - "OK.. whatever", look. But the real problem is that I don't want to wrap up in one because it reminds me of dreadful OCD days. It's nice to know that someone else can relate to me. Thank you for responding. It's encouraging to know that others understand our experiences with OCD.
Mitzi