Articles about surviving with OCD (0-3 of 3)

  • So Happy With My Home Security System
    By: Don Tate | - I was practically OCD about locking doors, and making sure they were locked. 3 a.m., the dog needs to go out, I let them out, lock the door behind them, wait, let them back in, lock the door behind them again. Then, I checked the front door, and the garage door locks as well.

    Then my next door neighbor's house got broken into. Middle of the day, and they took everything. Well, that was it for me.

    I shopped around, and got my home a security system. Oh how my sleeping im ...

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  • Anxiety Disorders, Depression And Survival
    By: ter1000 | - Generalized anxiety, anxiety attacks and panic attacks, OCD, PTSD and even depression - all of these problems involve fear, anxiety and panic. And fear, anxiety and panic are all about one thing: survival.
    It is the main drive of every living thing "?" to survive and reproduce (so that our genes survive). It drives everything we do "?" every waking second and every sleeping second, every conscious minute and every unconscious minute. Anxiety-related problems are all formed around this dr ...

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  • Anxiety Disorders And Depression: Nature Versus Nurture
    By: ter1000 | - Anxiety is a part of human nature, a survival mechanism that has evolved to protect us, and the problems it can bring, in themselves, reflect what it means to be human:-
    - worrying (planning ahead)
    - physical symptoms (eg. increased heartrate/breathing to prepare us for action)
    - even obsessive compulsive behaviour (the need for order and control)
    All are deeply ingrained in human make-up to help us survive.

    However, when we talk about nature versus nurtur ...

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