First of all, I would like to say that I have not been clinically diagnosed with OCD and I do not mean to poke fun at anyone with a serious disorder. Second, whoa busy time of my life right now! Which, in turn, has caused my OCD to spike. I'm not a germophobe. I don't have to touch things many times. I don't pull out my hair or pick at my skin. See I'm OCD when it comes to information and knowing things. For example, once I start reading a book or watching a movie, I have to finish it no matter how much I hate it. I am so afraid that I am going to miss something important. When I'm on aol.com, I feel like I need to look through every feed, even if there are 30. It's really annoying.
I follow many different blogs and feel like I need to look at every single post. I. CAN'T. MISS. ANYTHING. If I skip a day, I will make sure to look at the missed posts the next day. Recently, I have not been keeping up with things. In fact, I don't think I've looked at any of the blogs I follow for the past two weeks. I just started a new job on Monday and I was super busy wrapping up the old job before that, that I had no time to keep up with my blogs. Now I'm trying to determine if I go back and read ALL the blogs or if I can handle it to only catch up on certain blogs. This is a tough decision as I'm so afraid I'm going to miss something life-changing. I realize that's probably not the case, but it still sits there in the back of my mind. So, what do you think? Should I catch up on ALL of them or just a select few? What do you think I will do? I guess we'll see!!
To all of my other mildly OCD friends, I feel your pain. But, it's time to move passed it!
Happy Obsessing!
--Am
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ReplyDeleteI was diagnosed with it once, but I am feeling it fade as I grow
ReplyDeleteolder. I say that-and I'm about to be 24. But I will say this-I still,
to this day hold strong with the reading struggle. I'm 900 pages into
a book that I'm still not sure about. But-its all worth learning
something, right? Nice!
Amber - my family and I call this FOMOOS (Fear Of Missing Out On Something). I struggle with it sometimes too... oh how addicting the blogs can be! But rest assured, if you miss something on one of them your life will not be greatly impacted!! :-)
ReplyDeleteLogan--I don't know how you do it because I don't think I could get that far into a book I didn't like. Well, I probably wouldn't pick a 900 page book out to read anyway. :)
ReplyDeleteJulie--You'd be proud to know that I didn't go through all the fashion blogs I follow. That would take a couple of hours to catch up on what I missed. I have more important things to read now!