Question?

[kimberllyydawnn]

Does OCD make you feel like you are not yourself? And I also then get scared that i have everything mental thing under the sun and I am unstable and i h ave personality disorders and then I worry about that!!

 

[Celticroots]

Yes I think OCD can manifest like that for some folks, although I am not a psychologist so I am not sure. But my OCD has gone through the same theme that you're going through.

 

[Ghackman]

Yes, it is also my experience that it can. For me, this has happened twice. It's like one day, no matter how tough your life may seem at the moment or how much darkness, stress, anger, etc. you are dealing with, you still feel like the self you recognize. Then the OCD hits and it's as if everything that came before is immediately cut off and you are another person, living another interior life and you no longer recognize the person you've become. You can remember how you were before (your feelings, opinions, beliefs, etc.), but you can no longer seem to access that person. It's like you have to make an intentional effort to be yourself based on those memories because it no longer feels natural or simply taken for granted. It completely interrupts your sense of personal continuity.

 

[jcguess78]

Yes Ghackman described it perfectly. I just recently came through an OCD cycle just as you described during to first 4 months of this year. It is crazy and scary. But at the end of the day it's not real. It's all in the head. It just likes to make you think and feel as if it was real. OCD is an illness it's not who we really are at the depth of our person. But we can successfully manage the symptoms as we learn new normal patterns of thinking.