Sorry for the late reply but thank you so much. That means a lot to me but right now as I write this post it seems like I might have to give her a ultimatum. She seemed really mad today for no reason and started talking about how she's being watched by cameras. I decided I wil leave the house until she decides to take her medicine. If she continues again I'll have to baker act her again...
It's my pleasure. :) It does seem as though there's going to have to be a hard conversation in the near future about it; lowering contact as you're doing now is not a bad idea, but you may have to set harder boundaries and expectations going forward. It might suck. From my completely exterior view, it might also be what communicates to her that she needs to stay on her meds.
I'm glad you're still here. You're worth so much more than "like that."
Yes, and you're both doing great 🥰
People tie gaming to their identity and feel like when they beat a challenge, that was designed to be beaten, that they're tough shit and they see anything easier as a threat to them. It's a tribal mindset and they need to get over themselves.
I'm glad you've found a way to hit back on your mental illness. I've got to imagine OCD is particularly rough right now, at least for those whose OCD presents as fixated on cleanliness. Congrats! :)
Yep. I'll make a sort of "closing comments" post later and let the thread take its course.
Well, I'm glad you're still with us, Inapplicable. I have the same issue that I'm trying my best to work through.
Recognizing it is the first step towards recovery, so good on you for already being past that point. You aren't past the point of no return, and you're worth progress. I hope you have some form of support system, by the way; if you don't, you have people here on Era rooting for you 💜
You're welcome. :) I've been doing some reading on COVID-19's effect on various illnesses, OCD included, and it just sucks. I hope it does make people more aware, as this is essentially a shared grieving period, but it'd be naïve of me to think this is going to whip around public opinion at once.
That's what I've read—that fixation on cleaning/contamination is one of the four major subtypes, but I didn't see any data on which is more frequent. Just that it's the most commonly seen/known, i.e. constantly stereotyped as loving cleaning and nary a mention of the other variations. :/ It doesn't matter more than the reality of the disease, though. I did see that article in my last search, but if nobody's reporting on specific percentages, ah well.
That feeling of unworthiness you're describing is illustrated just about perfectly.
