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PolarBear

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  1. A couple of observations based on the pattern of your obsessions. You fear a degradation in your future quality of life due to some health concern. It becomes all encompassing and anxiety provoking to the point where your present quality of life degrades. You exhibit extreme all or nothing thinking during these episodes. In both situations that I am aware of, you talk about your life being over. There is a common thread here. We sometimes talk about core beliefs and how they can be at the root of OCD obsessions. It would be interesting to find out if you have a core belief that is driving your thinking.
  2. Same sort of thinking when you thought you got radiation from the smoke detector. Your life was over then too.
  3. So that's it? Your life would be over? What if dementia wouldn't kick in for 20 years?
  4. It isn't living in denial. Let me ask you this: what do you hope to achieve by going to a Neurologist?
  5. Hang on a second, Robin. You say "this real health issue" but it isn't a real health issue right now, is it? You presently have no evidence that anything is wrong with your health. You are worried that in the future your health could be impacted. The two are not the same. That you could be susceptible to dementia in the future may be true (and certainly not a given), the way you are approaching this news is ENTIRELY OCD. This has become all encompassing for you. You ruminate constantly. You research, a compulsion. You exhibit all or nothing thinking. You don't know if there is anything wrong yet you talk about your life being over. That is OCD.
  6. It is clear that getting dementia from this head malady is an obsession. Going to a Neurologist would be a compulsion. Rarely do sufferers gain permanent relief after doing a compulsion because doubt rises and more obsessions appear. We have seen cases like this where OCD raises new concerns, leading to more research, wanting a second opinion, asking for reassurance, etc. This won't go away until Robin stops taking her obsession seriously, ignores the obsession and stops doing compulsions.
  7. Recovery involves changing the way you think about obsessions and changing the way you react to your obsessions (your behavior). Typically, sufferers take their obsessions seriously. You can change that. You can begin to see they are lies and that they can be ignored.
  8. Back to the basics. You've fallen into old thinking and behavior patterns. You have to break them. You can break them.
  9. There is nothing false about the guilt some OCD sufferers feel. It may be wildly inappropriate in context, but it is as real a feeling as any other.
  10. Absolutely. This dementia worry is a carbon copy of your smoke detector worry. Both OCD obsessions run amok because you do endless compulsions.
  11. Louise, all these rules your mind creates are absolute nonsense.
  12. Yes, effectively deal with your OCD.
  13. Robin, I and everyone else here, with a few notable exceptions, KNOWS going to a Neurologist is a compulsion and it won't fix your actual problem. However, going to a doctor and doing something is infinitely better than sitting their frozen, ruminating like crazy and making yourself sick.
  14. Howard, you hear but you do not listen. Robin has OCD. Her thinking and behavior of late is CLEAR evidence of OCD at work. Robin can go see a Neurologist, but that won't change the OCD. Robin will still have OCD, regardless what the doctor says.
  15. Then do something about it! Quit ruminating, researching and posting on an OCD forum. Go see a doctor. Do something! Just be prepared to find out the visit does nothing to change the way you feel. Because you still have OCD.
  16. You are wrong when you say Robin can get on with their life after talking to a Neurologist. Because Robin will continue to have OCD after the consultation. A major compulsion like going to a doctor is not going to change their thinking or behavior.
  17. You are miscontruing what posters are saying. You could get dementia. So could I. Your near total obsession with the subject IS OCD. That you can think of nothing else IS OCD. That you have researched the matter to death IS OCD. That you are exhibiting all or nothing, fatalistic thinking about this IS OCD. That you went through the exact same thing with the smoke detector shows that this is OCD. None of us are neurologists. If you want to go see a Neurologist, go see one. Fair warning: nothing a Neurologist will say will positively affect your OCD, which you will continue to have, regardless what the doctor says. As for your fatalistic thinking, do you think all people should just give up when facing a medical condition? Should they give up when they simply believe they will get a medical condition, even when they have zero evidence they will?
  18. My suggestion is do the thing you fear. Throw out the coat.
  19. Chris, basically everything you've done about this these past 4 years were compulsions. And you're back here asking for reassurance. You've started many threads lately, all asking for reassurance and assistance in figuring this thing out. Do you realize that all these compulsions, done over 4 years, have done absolutely no good? You're no further ahead. Learn from that. It means doing more compulsions is not going to help.
  20. The reason OCD flares is because you choose to pay attention to it. If it goes away, it's because you ignored it. Then at some point you decide to look at it again (give it attention) and down the rabbit hole you go.
  21. Having pleasurable sensations does not make someone a pedophile.
  22. "I've played that situation over and over..." There's your compulsion. You've been doing this for years but you haven't come up with a final answer. You are no better off today than you were when this started. I gotta ask you: do you think going over this in your head for a few more years is going to bring you a different result?
  23. It just is. Look, obsessions are manifested in your brain -- the same place where all other thoughts and images are manifested. Really, why wouldn't they seem real?
  24. What if? It is a pleasurable sensation. Move on. Don't dwell on it. It doesn't mean anything unless you give it meaning.
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