When Obsession Creeps...

When Obsession Creeps...

Per se, OBSESSIONS are recurrent ideas, thoughts, impulses OR images that are experienced as being intrusive and senseless BUT are recognized as the person's own thoughts.  Fortunately, I DON'T recall falling into that 'mouse trap' even in the past BUT in sharings by those WHO went through the gauntlet, they tell us that the experience itself is distressing and attempts to resist its content OR form are NOT successful.  To make matters worse, those compulsions include actions OR cognitions which include even counting OR praying even as they are referred more as rituals.  When Obsession Creeps, that's WHEN we got to take a stand📘📙📗

Before we get mixed up, people with and without obsessive compulsive disorder [OCD] can experience OBSESSIONS.  It's just that those with OCD tend to experience more distress, guilt, negative emotion, and interference in daily life compared to most of us.  WHAT's quite perplexing is what studies show that most people know their OBSESSIONS are excessive BUT feel unable to control them.  And because they are unwanted and disturbing, OBSESSIONS usually cause anxiety.  As many of us could have gone through the symptoms of OBSESSION, it may help to 'drill and dice' it💧💧💧

Hearing from the experts, OBSESSIONS typically fall along certain anxiety-inducing themes, such as fears of harm, sickness and, knock on wood, bad luck as well as things that are inappropriate OR wrong.  Oh oh, I remember one OBSESSION I had [probably till now] and that's perfectionism.  And as per studies, perfectionistic OBSESSIONS are overwhelmed by a fear of making mistakes, doing something wrong, OR leaving things out of place😌😌😌

Surprisingly, perfectionist OCD may involve:

• Order, symmetry and organization
• Neatness [ouch, I'm guilty of it]
• Following rules/routines [been there]
• Completing tasks perfectly [as always]

BUT contrary to popular belief, perfectionistic OBSESSIONS AREN'T always about organization, neatness because it could mean rigidly adhering to strict religious, ethical and/or moral beliefs💥💥💥

Our takeaway:  WHAT this all tells us is that consciously OR not, we all do manifest various behaviors of OBSESSION but WHAT matters most is that we need to ensure that those OBSESSIVE manifestations do not push us to the extremes to the extent that we get buried under the weight of all the unnecessary OR unwanted OBSESSIONS.  Let us be on the lookout WHEN OBSESSION creeps❗❗❗