October 11, 2007

• Recently at work, my OCD was acting up on me. I drive a van at work, and usually I rely on the digital clock that's on the dash board. For whatever reason, the radio channel was the one that was on display and not the time. I could press a button for the clock to go on, but it will revert back to the radio channel display in a few seconds. Now this isn't the case of me being lazy of pressing that little button that'll make me change the display, but a case of me "needing" it to display the time constantly, so that I can just make a quick glance at the time without having to press a button. That's where my OCD kicked in, and it was frustrating me and actually causing me anxiety because the clock's time isn't being displayed. I even went through the van's manual, but it did not have the information as to how to revert it back to just the clock. For almost a half hour, I was doing work, and I was consumed by this "little" problem. My mind would not mentally let it go, and I needed a solution fast. I ended up just pressing and holding down the control buttons on the dashboard, just hoping to find some kind of positive result. At that point, I didn't care if I was going to mess anything up, I just wanted my freakin damn clock displayed constantly!!! Luckily though, I figured out how to fix the problem after pressing and holding a button on the dash. You wouln't believe how relieved I felt in having things "back to normal" with the van. Damn OCD make me go crazy.

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