Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)I'm no poet but I've written this about about my OCD -
My OCD's a bully
He's always at my side.
He interferes with all I do
There's just no place to hide.
His hold on me is endless,
He holds me with such force.
But however much I reason
He shows me no remorse.
I need to show him who's the boss,
The boss of course is me.
But however hard I try to lose him
He's back right next to me.
I told you I was no poet but I managed this without his interference!
Truddles
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Truddles, I've read a lot of OCD poetry and not been that impressed, but your poem is excellent and I think you underestimate your talent.
Tricia
Many thanks Tricia,
I'm having a real bad couple of days and your posting has boosted my confidence that maybe I'm not the idiot that the medics and OCD etc make me out to be. I think they're mates with OCD.
Have read a lot of what you've had to say and have been impressed with how you manage to convey calm to others when they've been distressed.
Thanks.
Truddles
Truddles,
That is great. Send it off to OCD Action so that they can publish it in the members Newsletter.
Caps
Hi Caps,
Thanks for those words of encouragement it has boosted my self esteem, but please excuse my ignorance how and where do I send it, also having not seen the newsletter presume as I placed it first on forum that they use your public nickname. Please advise.
Truddles
Hi Truddles
I like your poem very much and it inspired me to have a go myself.
She makes me doubt what I believe
And urges me to check.
She leaves me muddled and confused.
She's just a pain in the neck!
It's interesting you personify OCD as a male whereas I personify it as a female. What does that say about us respectively?!
Parvez
Truddles wrote:
"Thanks for those words of encouragement it has boosted my self esteem, but please excuse my ignorance how and where do I send it, also having not seen the newsletter presume as I placed it first on forum that they use your public nickname. Please advise."
Sorry for not making myself clear. Send your poem by e-mail to info@ocdaction.org.uk and tell them that they can publish it the members Newsletter. The Newsletter is produced in hardcopy and is sent out to paid up members of OCD Action 2 or 3 times a year and has a lot of useful information, articles and good stuff like poems and sufferers stories in it but at present it is not published on the forum although we hope to do so in the future. You don't have to be a member of OCD Action to use the website and the forum - this will always be free. If you want to become a member of OCD action ask about it in your e-mail.
It is up to you what name you would like to use when publishing your poem. You can use your real name, your forum name, or any other psuedonym or keep it anonymous but we do need to have your name and permission to publish - this will be kept confidential.
Best wishes,
Caps
Everyones poems about how ocd affects them are good & are so true.
Thought i would give it a try too. Kind of inspiring as Parvez said.
OCD haunts me like a ghost it's the thing i want rid of the most
Day in day out it's always there
I can't seem to wash it out of my hair
Attatched to me like a leech
Sucking my blood as i sleep
Wish there was a switch in my brain that could turn off this pain
OCD sits on my shoulder like a massive boulder
OCD, OCD, go away and don't come back another day.
Fairymouse
Thank you Truddles your poem was good too and very true of living with OCD also.
It's helps to know that there are other people that are experiencing the same or similar things. Knowing that there are other people for you to confide in, talk to & can share your most inner thoughts and feelings with.
I do still feel lonley in the sense of not really having anyone physically around me in the flesh. Does that make sense?
Fairymouse
Night Truddles ty & you sleep well too.
Fairymouse
Hello Truddles, and everyone. As you clever people are giving your definitions of OCD in verse, I thought I'd have a go, too;
It is our phantom in the night,
And from our fear, it takes delight
It is the burden of our day,
The beast which always barres the way
It is our stalker, crouching near,
Which sniggers if we shed a tear,
The mocking voice from deep within
That tells us of our dreadful sin
It’s the shadowed form which taints our dreams,
So sanity breaks its weakened seams,
The monster with no deepened lair,
No chance for us to catch its glare
Though in its blackened shade, we chill,
But never lose our growing will,
To feel the warm sun on our face,
With thoughts at rest in every place
But it’s still our phantom in the night,
And from our fear, takes great delight,
The tiring burden of our day,
The beast which still stands in our way.
Hi Stevieb,
That sums up the demon OCD brilliantly. Individually our OCD varies considerably and yet when we express it as a poem we all seem to be singing from the same hymn sheet. It also goes to show that OCD sufferers tend to be intelligent, articulate artistic souls.
Thanks for sharing.
Truddles
Hi Stevieb your poem was inspirational. I have been diagnosed with severe OCD and I am currently receiving wonderful support from Altrincham Priory.
I find that if I engage in conversation during therapy sessions my fears subside a little. Almost as if the cognitive part of my brain rationalises the toxic thoughts. Thoughts become increasingly toxic the more I try to apply meaning to them as this is emotional.
I must have a go at a poem next time I am on the forum
Cheers
Lumpy
Unregistered
Hi everyone,
Fantastic poetry, here is my effort, thought up during my statutory morning bath and hair wash.
Also, please can I print out your poems to display at our OCD Awareness Day in Cornwall?
Still having trouble with the avatar - has anyone else discovered Weemee on the net. If not give it a try.
Joyce
OCD
I want to be free
Of this vile monster inside me
Uninvited you entered me
Secretly invaded my family tree
Right up through my ancestry.
Cut through the line that was to be.
OCD
Get out of me
Threatening my sanity
Controlling my thoughts
Obsessively.
I will fight you OCD
Break open your cage
Imprisoning me
Endlessly in misery.
You will not stop me being me.
For now I accept reluctantly
A partnership in harmony
Or you will overpower me.
But I will resist you constantly.
I know which thoughts are you not me
Making me slave to anxiety
My precious life wasted
Compulsively.
My loved ones suffering
Needlessly.
No sin deserves this destiny
I am worth far more than you offer me
Tormentor, torturer
I will break free
and one day you will be history
OCD.
On this subject there is a song about OCD - see the video at this address:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np3QLrHJmRA
An Ode to Glad
In Devon a lady called Glad
Feels dirty although she's clean clad.
So she stands on her drain
In the wind and the rain,
And her neighbours all think she is mad.
But dear Glad avoids giving in.
She thinks to herself with a grin:
"If I stand on this drain
Again and again
I'm sure in the end I shall win."
In order to get CBT
Our Glad has to pay a high fee.
But it's money well spent
'Cos it keeps her intent
On defeating her OCD.
Unregistered
Dear Parvez.
This is absolutely brilliant! I have never had a poem written about me before. I have copied and pasted it to my thoughts page and will print it out and sellotape it to my study wall.
Thanks again
Glad
I composed that 3-part limerick about Glad over the weekend. It helped me to fight my OCD. Whenever I felt an urge to go over something in my mind to reassure myself about it, I diverted my concentration instead to writing that poem. Because I found it quite addictive, it distracted me for long enough from thinking about whatever I was worried about, so that when I went back to worry about it later on, my anxiety had subsided and the worrisome incident didn't seem to matter so much.
I am going to remember and use this coping technique again. 
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