So i wanted to bring up a thread to try and gather some thoughts on a very specific issue i've been having with my OCD lately. While i've generally been doing well at fighting compulsions and sitting with the obsessive anxiety, i've been having a much harder time with firmly grasping where i exist within the given space of a room. It's bizarre, it's like my ability to process the geometry of my environment is getting worse, and now i'm getting anxious because, say, my route from the sink to my towel took me within 5 feet of the toilet, or when i was bending over to wash my hands, my head came within a couple of feet of the plunger on the soap bottle. And it creates this ridiculous situation where i find myself rewalking a path or vaguely repeating the motions of something i just did, to confirm to myself that there is in fact no plausible way i accidentally touched the thing i can't stop fixating on having potentially touched. And even doing this strange thing doesn't completely make the anxiety go away, and i often have to wash or rewash objects or my hands to get any peace.
So i'm wondering if anyone else with OCD has encountered this problem, and if they have, if they found a way to stop it driving them mental like it currently is for me. Any feedback is appreciated, even if it's "I never experienced anything like that, and it's weird you are", cos then i at least know that.
So i'm wondering if anyone else with OCD has encountered this problem, and if they have, if they found a way to stop it driving them mental like it currently is for me. Any feedback is appreciated, even if it's "I never experienced anything like that, and it's weird you are", cos then i at least know that.