Anyone else with OCD relate to this?

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I’m a single parent and have had a full on two weeks with my four year old. I work for myself, so have had to work in the evenings. Last year I suffered from a massive mental burnout and Went freelance and have put in good healthy practises into place and felt so good for the past six months. This week, I’ve not been able to exercise as much as I would have liked and just burnt myself out.

I swear I’ve got my period coming too, but my OCD has gone into extreme mode! I am worrying about everything… the work I’ve done for clients is awful and I’ll get sacked, obsessively checking doors and switches and convinced myself I got three speeding tickets on way home from shopping this afternoon! I’m so exhausted, so have banned myself from working tonight. I have a nice day with family tomorrow and am staying over.

My Child is at their dad’s tonight and I’m going to go for a walk tomorrow morning. But just wondered if anyone can relate to the catastrophising, doom and anxiety of OCD when they are thinly stretched and overwhelmed? Any top tips to help quell the fear?

I can absolutely relate to this. I try some mindfulness to switch off the negative voices in my head long enough to stop the checking. It

I have a close family member with OCD and I suffer from extreme anxiety and ADHD symptoms.

Have you tried meditation, or emotional freedom technique? I found those both really helpful when I'm catastrophising about things. Or getting too involved in my own mental turmoil.

I hope you feel better soon. X

I can relate! When leaving the house every morning, I need to give myself a good 10 mins to go around checking all the plugs doors, switches, locking up etc… 😣
I also worry about speeding tickets and many other irrational things!
Body scan sleep podcasts help me a lot a night.

I'm bad with these too. Always walking back to the front door or car door to make sure they are locked, counting down the two weeks ticket issue if I'm concerned I went through a speed camera even though the doors are always locked and I have zero points on my licence.