09:00 AM - Have I? Haven't I?
WRITE YOUR STORY
I always hate to be the one who need to lock the door. I never feel assured whether I have locked it or not. The more I don't want to think about the door, the more I will think about it.
What if I actually haven't locked the door
What if my place got robbed.
What if someone got killed .
Because of me.
I need to check it again
Those thoughts always haunted me whenever I take responsible to lock the door. Now I must be late for school.
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TO DO LIST
Lock the door
Check the door
Lock the door
Check the door
Lock the door
09:20 AM - Roads Full of Anxious
OPEN THE LETTER
13:00 PM - The Hardest Assignment
WRITE YOUR STORY
I'm scared of my own thoughts
Am I really capable of hurting someone?
I can't stop the thoughts
This is why I can never use any sharp knife or sharp objects.
I'm scared of myself.
I could never do assignments that require cutting properly.
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TO DO LIST
Don't use the pen knife
Don't think of violent thoughts
Avoid sharp objects
C-
MARK
HOW DO I FEEL ABOUT THIS?
JOYFUL
ANGRY
ANXIOUS
SCARED
TIRED
GUILTY
SAD
TO DO LIST
"I am sorry to have these thoughts.
Nothing bad will happen to my
friends or family"
Fight the thoughts
Repeat it until the thoughts disappear
WRITE YOUR STORY
Whenever I stepped on a crack, or a broken tile, it will trigger me to think of creepy and scary thoughts inside my mind and I'd feel something bad would happen.
From the outside, people might wonder why do I stand still on the crack for so long.
What I'm doing is I'm trying to fight back the thoughts by saying that particular sentence completely 5 times.
This is called neutralising the thoughts.
I know it doesn't make any sense. But I by saying this phrase, I feel the thoughts become more powerless. But if I don't say the word, I feel that the thoughts will be stronger than who I am, resulting to something terrible to happen.
The process was very anxious and tiring.
NADYA'S AFTERNOON ROUTINE
Now that you have listened to the thoughts in my head, I hope you can understand why I always take a long time to do my morning routine. It really troubles me because every morning, I need to wake up super early, or I will never make it on time. On this day, I didn't wake up that early because I didn't expect that I only have bread to eat which required another extra time to cut. But the biggest issue is the feeling caused by the thoughts. A day started with full of worries and anxious is the worst feeling.
Sadly, the problems don't end there.
HOW DO I FEEL ABOUT THIS?
JOYFUL
ANGRY
ANXIOUS
SCARED
TIRED
GUILTY
SAD
HOW DO I FEEL ABOUT THIS?
JOYFUL
ANGRY
ANXIOUS
SCARED
TIRED
GUILTY
SAD
It's like you have two brains
- a rational brain and an irrational brain.
And they are constantly fighting.
- Emilie Ford
Having OCD is like a broken machine.
Thoughts go in your head, get stuck,
and keep going around and around
- Megan Flynn