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Cool, I see.
The reason I wanted to put the record straight is that I believe for me to delve deeper into what my symptoms mean would exagerate them, and most of the top dudes in OCD agree. I keep it simple.
You approach sounds very thorough and I totally agree about the not having control in other areas of ones life.
For me the thoughts are all about beliefs: I belive that having these thoughts mean that I could be dangerous, or a pschopath. Or I believe that I must control all thoughts etc. I have about five or six beliefs and cognitive biasis that have been identified and I daily use techniques to readjust them.
In your experience, and you sound very experienced, do you find it an easy beast to get under control? I hear some shock stories of OCD'ers leading lifes of lonliness and misery and the become so distracted by their obsessions that nothing else matters. Thankfully, this has not happened to me. I had a swift diagnosis, a swift treatment, and things get better slowly, day by day.
Also, from your point of you, do you agree with my analogy in that my 'episode' was 'growing pains' - meaning that I actually feel far better than I did before I had OCD even though I have ocd today. Which nudges me toward the idea that OCD was a kind of mental clearing out, a changing of the guards if you like...
Your thoughts?
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