This illness is so much more than depression and mania. Most people with bipolar disorder have anxiety – and one of the main types of anxiety is obsessive compulsive disorder.\u00a0 I have it often and it’s awful! It’s triggered by so many things- like where I am right now. I love football and watch as many games as possible.\u00a0 The problem is that there are so many games on at once. The place I go has a lot of people and there are more than five games going at once. Everyone wants to watch their own team, so the bartender Kim has to do a dance every Sunday to try to please everyone.<\/p>\n
This environment is one I truly love- but it’s also one that makes me ill. Unfair! My symptoms include:
\n1. Twisting my head all over the place to look at too many games.
\n2. Checking my phone to see if someone has called.
\n3. Unable to stay off my computer- so checking it too much.<\/p>\n
Etc. Etc. So I have made some changes. No one likes OCD symptoms. They are difficult to manage once their start- so it makes a LOT more sense to prevent them. Here is how I counteract the OCD.<\/p>\n
#1 I keep out of what games go on the TV.\u00a0 Kim asks my opinion and I always say what I would prefer and then let the crowd decide.
\n#2 I turn off my phone.
\n#3 I would like to say I don’t bring my computer, but obviously I do. I’m not going to bring it next time. I don’t play fantasy football, so it’s not like I need it! And I say I will work, but I don’t.<\/p>\n
I know I don’t have to come here, but I love the environment and the people. It’s up to me to make changes so that my bipolar can handle the enviornment. It’s a weekly challenge.\u00a0 I wish I were different, but it’s my reality.<\/p>\n
How about you? Do you have OCD? Do you know someone with OCD?\u00a0 It’s missed a lot!<\/p>\n
Julie<\/p>\n
PS: This computer goes off right now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This illness is so much more than depression and mania. Most people with bipolar disorder have anxiety – and one of the main types of anxiety is obsessive compulsive disorder. I have it often and it’s awful! It’s triggered by so many things- like where I am right now. I love football and watch as many games as possible. The problem is that there are so many games on at once. The place I go has a lot of people and there are more than five games going at once. Everyone wants to watch their own team, so the bartender Kim has to do a dance every Sunday to try to please everyone.<\/p>\n
This environment is one I truly love- but it’s also one that makes me ill. Unfair! My symptoms include: 1. Twisting my head all over the place to look at too many games. 2. Checking my phone to see if someone has [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11778,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/11778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}