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DesolateNight
13-08-2014, 12:52 PM
Well, my *suspected* OCD has been kicking the living heavens out of me for the past three years, and it's finally so bad now that i can barely function. For the past two and a half months i have been sleeping on a desk in my room because i cannot touch my bed. It would take less time to point out the things in my house that i can touch than it would to point out what i couldn't. One would take about three minutes while the latter would take numerous hours. Last night, my mother came to me to order me to sleep in my bed- to which i said i couldn't. She got angry and we discussed/quietly argued about it for a while. Coming to the end of the discussion, she seems to be considering putting me somewhere to help me *if you know what i me*. She says that if she were too take me too see someone , they would want to institutionalize me. At this point, i don't know what to do. I can't stand to be in this house for very much longer, but i don't want to be sent away to some place like that. *choked sigh* I can't hold up for much longer now. Most days i can barely eat because i'm too disturbed by my surroundings and my own body. I'm always exhausted and i am isolated from everyone outside my house(and those in the house are driven so insane by my quirks and "rituals" that they basically despise me) *shakes head* um, i don't know...

tiptoes
13-08-2014, 05:52 PM
I'm sorry you are going through such a hard time at the moment.
Do you think you could reach out to your GP or similar about this? Obviously I can't say for sure but it is more common for community based support to be investigated before inpatient is considered. What do you have to lose?

Are you able to talk to your mum or friends about how you are feeling at the moment?

talaiporia
14-08-2014, 02:19 AM
I do think, that now things have reached this really crunch point, it would be a very good idea to seek help and support for. There are lots of options out there for managing OCD and lots of people make a really good recovery from it. It sounds like it's significantly affecting your quality of life at the moment, and that things can really only move forward from here, and talking to someone is a good way to go about that.