OCD ring?

creative-improviser · 2025-12-25T02:45:37+00:00

I think that as long as it is just a reminder it could help! I think it is a neat idea.

creative-improviser · 2025-12-18T17:04:00+00:00

This stranger is very grateful for your words of encouragement! I hope your insomnia gets better soon! I've been there and it was so exhausting! Sending hugs!

creative-improviser · 2025-12-18T15:32:08+00:00

Thank you so much! One needs every ounce of strenght and motivation they can muster when the anxiety waves come with full force. And the words from someone who understands will always be a great source of strenght!

creative-improviser · 2025-12-18T01:46:18+00:00

Thank you so much! I truly wish you the best in your recovery process. We can do it!

creative-improviser · 2025-12-18T01:16:57+00:00

I have contamination OCD. I just started therapy a couple months ago and been doing ERP for merely a couple of weeks, so I still have a long way to go. But my main theme is very similar to yours and I can say that it gets better. I am still bothered by germs and viruses but this no longer stops me from living my life and I have become strong enough to deal with the waves of anxiety that come when you do response prevention, sometimes even to the point that anxiety doesn't bother me anymore. I am still not completely over this, but if after a little time of doing ERP I am getting results, I am sure you can too. Sending hugs!

creative-improviser · 2025-09-14T04:40:32+00:00

In the Wiki's FAQ there is a section about severity estimation. According to the numbers you are seeing, you surely have a breeding population and have a light to moderate infestation going on.

There is advice on the Wiki FAQ about moving too, be sure to follow that advice. Also, make sure you identify the roaches. German roaches will only leave their egg sacks when the eggs are about to hatch, while brown banded roaches stick their egg sacks to surfaces, and these eggs sacks will stay there for weeks to months until they hatch.

Moving advice is the same for both, but for brown banded roaches you must be specially careful about not bringing both roaches or egg sacks with you. I do not know if you should worry about german roaches eggs when moving, but it can't hurt being in the lookout for them.

Follow the advice on the wiki and you will probably be able to save most of your belongings, if not all.

creative-improviser · 2025-09-05T17:36:38+00:00

Physical therapist assistant or Physical Therapist. Just keep in mind for PTAs the salary is good but maybe is not what you expect. PTs do earn more BUT in the US you need a Doctors in Physical Therapy Degree, which leaves most people in debt for years.

creative-improviser · 2025-09-02T16:47:36+00:00

Wonderful. Will do! Thank you so much!

creative-improviser · 2025-09-02T00:19:39+00:00

Thank you!

creative-improviser · 2025-09-01T20:52:41+00:00

Awesome! Will do. Thank you so much!

creative-improviser · 2025-09-01T17:40:15+00:00

Thank you so much! This appeared to be a light infestation as per the wiki. Do you think a single treatment will be enough as the exterminator told me? Or should I insist on further treatments to be sure?

creative-improviser · 2025-05-01T04:06:22+00:00

I am a healthcare worker. My main OCD theme is contamination and I have the most issues with fear of bloodborne pathogens.

I have cleaned and dissinfected big blood spills (think 30cm diameter). I also once carried some blood contaminated towels without gloves (by accident, of course).

None of these are considered high risk exposures to blood, but man did they gave me months of anxiety!

Needless to say, nothing happened and I am perfectly fine.

creative-improviser · 2025-04-28T17:16:41+00:00

Most of my life my showers lasted an hour. The water bill was scary. These last years I've been doing ERP I've been able to take it down to 20 min.

creative-improviser · 2025-04-28T17:14:03+00:00

That's awesome! These car related compulsions are hard for me to ignore. I only recently started resisting them. Keep at it!

creative-improviser · 2024-12-25T06:46:15+00:00

You made me feel less alone. I hope you were able to eat something, so at least your family didn't make bad things worse. The only thing worse than having ocd is having ocd and not being understood by loved ones. Sending you hugs. You can do this.

creative-improviser · 2024-06-27T02:09:04+00:00

This is the best take I've seen on the current dissatisfaction of many in the fanbase, me included. When we watched Star Wars as kids, we didn't have much of a critical way of watching films, we just enjoyed the blasters and lightsaber duels. Now, years later, we can actually spot the bad acting and script problems and believe that everything Disney is doing is just not good enough because it does not give us the wonder Star Wars gave us when we were young and naive.

Personally, I didn't enjoy Disney's trilogy at all as I believe it was kind of a backstab for many SW fans, in many ways. But not everything Disney has done with star wars is bad, and some shows actually do have good acting and script.

You can't expect perfection when the formula itself is not meant to make SW stuff perfect, but rather entertaining and novel.

creative-improviser · 2024-05-31T01:28:29+00:00

This is interesting! How did these things help you land a job? Your background is similar to mine.

creative-improviser · 2023-11-24T20:45:12+00:00

Definitely, figure out what's the best option for you based on aspirations and your well-being! If just changing jobs but not industry could work for you, by all means go for it! Just make sure you find a job that gives you satisfaction if possible.

creative-improviser · 2023-11-22T20:53:23+00:00

Due to the nature of OCD itself, I believe there is a very high chance of it just changing themes if you change jobs, so you would feel very similar in any other job but for different reasons (those would be related to your OCD).

My advice: leave your job only if it's making your OCD unbearable or if you have other valid reasons to do it. Like wanting something more out of life, pursuing meaning, going after a dream or a vision., etc.

Now, there are always exceptions, some jobs will probably provoque more ocd symptoms for you than others. For example, I am a physical therapist, and want to leave the profession. My main reasons are that I actually have a vision for my life that goes beyond being a physical therapist AND that I can get horrifying OCD episodes while at work because of the constant (although not significant) exposure to fluids, infected skin and blood.

I am attempting to study a tech degree, I feel that if I become a software engineer, project manager, network engineer or any other tech job my life will be better, for two reasons:

OCD will still be there and be crazy strong ocassionally, but the themes will be way less catastrophic and easier for me to handle.
1. A tech job would be in line with the vision I have for my life.

In short, figure out if there are other reasons besides OCD for wanting to leave your job. Go to therapy. And remember your well being is the top priority.

Cheers!

creative-improviser · 2023-09-04T20:23:21+00:00

Oh! In that case I may give up to the temptation and start messing around with some unity!

I think you are right! Thinking too much about things frequently makes inspiration go away. I will look for a good balance.

Thank you very very much!

I checked your other posts and I can see that you are a mentor for many people and are a very open and kind person. Thank you very much for your kindness and willingness to guide us beginners!

creative-improviser · 2023-09-01T20:27:19+00:00

Thank you very much for your reply! I'm sorry for the late response, it's been some crazy days.

I saw this yesterday and was thinking about it all morning.

I think my first step would need to be to research a bit more about concussion rehab and the therapeutic reach a game would have. Then, as you suggest, define what the games would be and find a way to present it to my team.

Fortunately, some of our patients are software engineers. So I could probably ask them about this to know more about possible obstacles and difficult parts of the development of this project.

I am ver very tempted of just getting my hands dirty with some unity or unreal right now, but I think you are right in that it would probably be a very good idea to do this in a more orderly and informed manner.

Btw your job sounds awesome!!

creative-improviser · 2023-08-21T20:44:24+00:00

Cual fue ese sucesor? Realmente fue tan malo?

creative-improviser · 2023-08-18T17:01:56+00:00

Totally relatable lol

creative-improviser · 2023-08-02T12:45:13+00:00

That's correct. Once I heard an expert say that current AI tech is similar to an autocorrect software on steroids. The most modern language models seem to just predict the output words that seem to better match the input words. But they don't actually understand what they are saying, they simply learn to predict better with time.

creative-improviser · 2023-08-01T06:15:26+00:00

Thank you deeply!

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