“When you are trying to stay in control of your wandering mind, you seek out work or other activities that take up every ounce of thought you have. You want to be fully immersed in an activity because that ensures that your mind won’t wander and obsess over your most irrational fears.”— Maya Kachroo-Levine, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: ocd, Control, Busy
“OCD can make you forgetful because you can’t focus on your jarring obsessions and your real life all at the same time.”— Maya Kachroo-Levine, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: ocd, forgetful, obsessions
“You often visualize bad things happening, and then need a visual distraction just to push the mental images out of your head.”— Maya Kachroo-Levine, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: ocd, Visualize, Mental Images