Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Anxiety comes in many different forms, one common form being Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or O.C.D. O.C.D can be described as "...an anxiety disorder in which time people have recurring, unwanted thoughts, ideas or sensations (Obsessions) that make them feel driven to do things repetitively.(www.psychiatry.org) Personally I have suffered from O.C.D my whole life, but it was triggered, as you may already know from previous blog entries, from my parents divorce. Every morning before school I would walk down the hallway of my home, and open and close the doors until my mind said I could stop. Then I would check the door knobs over and over again pulling them shut, for I feared for some how the doors had opened. Then at night I would lay down in my bed, the intrusive thoughts still pounding in my brain. They would make me do the most senseless things, such as checking door locks over and over again, and adjusting the curtains. Of course I would try to ignore these thoughts, but th...