Confessions of an Office Worker: Before, during and after a Pandemic

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After having read your article about intrusive thoughts, I feel somehow relieved that my husband is not alone. He is always feeling guilty about these thoughts and feels the need to share them with me, he feels better. In his case, he used (and still has but not very often) to obsesses or have intrusive sexual thoughts about the wife of a friend. However, whenever he saw her, he would not feel anything or even find her attractive, he would become nervous though if I was present. Although I welcomed his honesty and he constantly reassured me that he loved me, this situation did have a negative impact on our relationship. As I have now learnt to live with it and I don’t even care, it seems though that the sexual intrusive thoughts have now been replaced by bad thoughts about me. Again, these thoughts bother him even more, he feels bad because he loves me. The general situation with him at the moment is that he is overloaded with work, stressed about selling our current house because we just bought a new one, the moving. I also work part-time and we have 2 adorable (10 and 6) children that are generally well-behaved. I brought up harm OCD to my current therapist and she brushed it off saying that she doesn’t like labeling, and that it’s more important to figure out what’s triggering these thoughts. But now, I’m thinking what made it worse is this whole figuring things out. Help! Please tell me I am “normal” and that I am not acting on my impulses. I feel like I am torturing myself. Sorry this is so long and thank you so much for reading this!

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One aspect of OCD i struggle with is this, and to quote your article: ”Even OCD sufferers know what it is like to have a bizarre thought that doesn’t matter to them. When something isn’t the primary target of your OCD, you are able to feel uncertain about the meaning of the weird thought, but it doesn’t seem to matter. You decide to avoid spending any mental or physical energy on the thought and your brain allows you to move on. Some OCD sufferers have noticed this phenomenon with thoughts that used to be bothersome, but are no longer primary OCD targets. They often say, “I can’t believe this thought used to bother me before.” Your OCD theme has transferred to a new target. This is a common occurrence when you begin to respond to your OCD thoughts correctly. Your OCD needs to find a new area to get you to react.”But I still can’t seem to differentiate between some obsessions and reality, especially with regard to OCD guilt and normal guilt. Sometimes people SHOULD feel guilty, so how can I tell if I’m dismissing the type of guilt that leads you to try to do better in future, along with OCD guilt? Well, who am I kidding, I don’t dismiss any guilt.

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He broke up with me once I found out, and it was by far the messiest breakup I have ever had. He laid on the floor of my room in the fetal position with snot running down his face because he 'felt so guilty' about cheating on me. I eventually just told him to leave. Bhattacharya Rinku – Instant Indian – Classic Foods from Every Region of India Made Easy in the Instant Pot In yoga during opening meditation, the teacher said, “Breathe in calm, relaxation, harmony, and peace. Now breathe out stress, strain, suffering and dis-ease.” Well since I had run out of breath on my exhale, I breathed in dis-ease! This can’t be good. We were about to get in the car at the Santa Monica pier and my sister suggested walking across the parking lot to look at the ocean. I had a thought that we would be hit by a car in this busy parking lot because of the last minute change of plans. After all, it was not what we were supposed to do when we could have just entered the car to safety.

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hi, firstly thank you so much for this article. i have been diagnosed with OCD and i also believe i have GAD, as whenever i read a newspaper or someone tells me something bad that has happened to them, i start worrying that it has happened/will happen to me. I know it’s is ocd I have told myself but The sense of guilty was very high and made me very depressed . I was a very happy person and loving to hang around with friends and had a good job that I like and feeling satisfied. He convinced me he was going to leave his partner, and I believed him, but it just never came to fruition. He was too scared to leave her. It all came to a head when I had to move overseas after about a year. We promised each other we'd do long distance until I could return, but of course this didn't happen. He broke up with me a few weeks later, although we kept in touch for another couple of years. About a year later, I got a text out of the blue, and we rekindled things for a while. He was single at that time, but we kind of just fizzled out. I saw recently that he’s now married, funnily enough to someone else from our mutual workplace."

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He married his now-wife only last year, and she has no idea to this day that he was in an emotional and physical affair with another woman for so long. I don't often think about it anymore, but when I do, I feel guilty about it. It opened my eyes to how people can lie, cheat, and get away with it. What's worse is that I don't even think he felt bad about it." Sometimes life throws us a curveball. Sometimes life throws us a lifeline. Sometimes it throws us both. Sometimes we don’t know the meaning of what life throws at us until well after it throws stuff at us.This is a book about self-doubt, friendship, anxiety, and a worldwide pandemic, all through the everyday eyes of an office worker.

One day, we were having a drink at a hotel, and his fiancé messaged him asking if he was having an affair, because he is out so many nights a week when he used to not even be out on one. I watched him type, 'How could you even ask me that? Of course I'm not. You're crazy!' That should have been the warning sign for me.

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So my mind is in constant struggle with questions: what if I am in fact bad? Or is it just OCD making me feel guilty? What is the proper way to achieve recovery: forgive myself of this wrong doing (it never was an addiction and it’s been years since I watched all that) or treat it as another part of OCD where I use all the tools I used for the intrusive thoughts?

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This article is so so helpful! I’ve always had some sort of obsessive thoughts. When I was younger, I was convinced that every stomach ache was a case of appendicitis, so I would go to the doctor constantly to make sure it wasn’t it. Then when I got older, the fears changed to something more severe.. cancer of some sort for example. I would have such vivid real fears about it that I would almost convince myself that this is it. When most people would come down with a cold and just take it as is, for me it was “what if it is something more severe and I will not get better” etc. I have 3 small children now and I do NOT want them to inherit my issues. What made matters worse is that I lost my Dad to Brain cancer 5 years ago and then lost my sister to Ovarian Cancer less than a year ago… I think grief made matters much worse. For Maisy*, 30, that emotional side of things was important – as well as having a shared common ground. People can react differently when they’re having an affair,’ notes Hayley. ‘Some may try to “make it up’ to you with unexpected romantic gestures, others will become withdrawn, some may even accuse you of being unfaithful.’ He made me feel loved and beautiful. He made me feel like I mattered and my feelings mattered. It made me see that there was nothing wrong with me and I could be wanted by someone else and I wasn't the awful person my ex had convinced me that I was.