Anyone ever had to control obsessive behavior?
I have a problem with my obsessive compulsive behavior. Sometimes some things bug me so much that I can't help reacting to it at the most inappropriate time, even though I know that it will be a problem.
For instance, I fancied this girl and she was meeting up with another guy. I wasn't sure what to make of it, but it kept playing in my mind that something could have happened between them cause it was his last night here. I wanted to find out.. I wanted to know the truth.. and I wanted to know immediately.
The best way for me to know was to bring it up the next time we met, but I was so.. for lack of a better word, obsessed with it that I asked over MSN. Obviously you don't see any expressions over MSN and you don't know whether it's true or not, but I just needed to ask.
It's the sort of feeling where something plays in your mind so much that you begin to have all sorts of imaginations about it. And whether its true or not, the imagination has made it real.
Anyway, I think that sometimes my worst actions have been the ones that I react towards.. and my best ones are the ones which I plan and wait for the right moment. But its so hard to control.. almost excruciating.
Does anyone have this problem?
Do you even recognize that its a problem?
Anyone has any suggestions on how to counter it?
I've managed once in a while.. but the method I use is to "sit through it" (like counting to 10 before you lose your temper). It works but damn its hard.
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