NightOwl
Member
How common is it to find that you can cope normally with everyday stresses and then one extra stress breaks your ability to cope? I've found that at one time I could cope with whatever life threw at me, but after suffering a traumatic experience, I find my ability to cope with that extra unforseen pressure too difficult to take.
I don't suffer with OCD but I do like to organize my life so that I know I can cope with whatever is coming up, and if I find I can't cope with one of the simplest tasks, for instance today I found I couldn't go into a supermarket, I find myself angry because I couldn't do something I would have taken in my stride at one time and not even thought about it, maybe just slightly irritated that I had to add one more thing to my list of things to do.
And yet nowadays, it becomes a major problem, which seems so irrational if I look at it from the perspective of someone who has never gone through something traumatic; I can see the way I would have looked at it at one time but now I seem to be able to look at it from 2 perspectives - my old self and the one I am now. Trying to find the balance of understanding can be difficult and how to put it right is something I'm striving to achieve, but at the moment, I'm not quite sure how to go about this. :juggle:
It's a bit of a dilemma for me at the moment. Thank you for reading this.
TC
NightOwl
I don't suffer with OCD but I do like to organize my life so that I know I can cope with whatever is coming up, and if I find I can't cope with one of the simplest tasks, for instance today I found I couldn't go into a supermarket, I find myself angry because I couldn't do something I would have taken in my stride at one time and not even thought about it, maybe just slightly irritated that I had to add one more thing to my list of things to do.
And yet nowadays, it becomes a major problem, which seems so irrational if I look at it from the perspective of someone who has never gone through something traumatic; I can see the way I would have looked at it at one time but now I seem to be able to look at it from 2 perspectives - my old self and the one I am now. Trying to find the balance of understanding can be difficult and how to put it right is something I'm striving to achieve, but at the moment, I'm not quite sure how to go about this. :juggle:
It's a bit of a dilemma for me at the moment. Thank you for reading this.
TC
NightOwl