First, let me say that I L-O-V-E your user name. I live with a couple huge DC Comics fans myself and they'll take to task anyone who fights about the Marvel characters being better. (they, and I'm sure you do as well, love Marvel too . . .but if they had to pick . . .). Anyway, so you have a diagnosis of OCD. How did you get that? What was happening that drove you to the doctor at that time? This has been an ongoing issue? And what do you do for it now? I have a son very much like you. All the way down to the perfectionism. Wow, that's a rough life trying to get things just perfect. For him, it includes himself and since no one is perfect, he's often mad at himself! Hope that isn't the case with you. We all are works in progress and have our whole lives to improve!!
Your question if this is normal for someone with OCD and Anxiety? Well, it's definitely common (when the OCD is unmanaged/anxiety unmanaged). I'd work with your therapist or go back to one if you are having difficulty managing. Thought patterns can be retrained.
When you wrote about the watch left by you and hearing it ticking in your fake reality . . . were you just hearing it tick? Are you sensitive to sound at times? My son has sensory integration disorder as well and auditory processing is part of this. For him, a sound that others tune out, he can't. He hears it at what feels like the same volume as everything else. Tick tick tick is loud and can drive him nuts. Same with something he feels like a seam on a sock. Most of us can tune that out and ignore it and forget about it. Not him. He can think of nothing else. Focusing on what he is supposed to focus on at those times is nearly impossible.
Do you have any go to activities that help when you are feeling anxious or obsessing? And OCD can just be thoughts but do you have any compulsions?
If it's any comfort to you, this is how thinking people think, especially creative people. Anxious people get anxious over thoughts others don't. I'm also wondering about that OCD diagnosis. What is about you that makes you OCD? And what are you doing about it, for example, if you really do suffer anxiety and really do have OCD, are you in therapy to learn how not to think that way? These are more important than the fact you have interesting thoughts and that you're curious about reality -- who isn't?
Well, Marvel characters are better. And they ask exactly the kind of questions the person posting is asking, which is why they're better. I know this isn't on the serious side of this, but get this, my brother cleaned out my old room when my Dad sold our old house and he threw out my copy of Spiderman 1 -- along with everything else I left when I moved out at 17. Spiderman 1, folks. Phooey.
Yeah thanks man I really appreciate you replying, and just to clarify I haven't been diagnosed with anxiety. I have been diagnosed with OCD though. I have a problem with perfectionism with my OCD, along with excessive hand washing and a complicated "germ" phobia. I sometimes have to have everything absolutely perfect in my areas and if they aren't I start to freak out. Also it just happens randomly sometimes too, like it can take tens of minutes just adjusting one thing in my room. I think the thoughts of reality might be the doubtfulness of OCD and the fact that it mostly happens at night, so my brain probably isn't doing its best at telling me things are OK lol. I know someone reading this might think I'm crazy lol but I just want to know if this is normal for someone with OCD or anxiety. Thanks