Addiction Linked to OCD

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) can halt you in your tracks. It's an irrational fear that everything must be in an exact order before taking another step. You effectively become rooted to the spot.

A person with acute OCD will open the fridge to make sure every item is placed in its precise location, hovering forever before closing the door. They move to the kitchen table, cupboards, and then back to the fridge in an endless cycle.

If you have an addiction lurking away in the background, OCD may prevent you from getting on with life because of the desire to get that addiction sorted out first.

You constantly backtrack to your addiction that feeds itself and therefore never move on.

By repeating addiction you feel bad and can't look to the future. Psychological OCD can paralyze you into believing habits and addictions must be sorted out before you can do anything else.

It's a psychological battle and totally incorrect.

Take OCD more seriously if you believe it's having a negative impact on your life, acknowledging that it's an irrational fear. You may find it's linked to a series of addictions and repetitive bad habits that are masking themselves as OCD. We all have OCD to a certain extent because it's a form of good housekeeping and tidiness.

OCD can be linked to addiction and the need to get immediate fixes. Small petty steps that connect to a deeper and more profound habit that takes its place, and after getting that fix it's back to the small steps and round in circles again.

Do you have an addiction to porn, gaming, gambling, or something else? OCD could be a misinterpreted natural defense mechanism to avoid addressing your addictions more seriously. Your inner conscience tells you to act on your bad habits, but maybe you're holding back psychologically?

Let's say you want to gamble right now but your conscience tells you to back off, so you get up, tap tap tap, do nothing in particular, and then back to gambling anyway because the initial OCD element has been fulfilled.

It's a common message that repeats in your mind to sort out minor tiddlywinks before getting on with the really good stuff, the addiction. It happens a lot. You're maybe anxious about getting on with life and therefore behaving like a rabbit in the headlights, paralyzed from doing anything at all, simply repeating minor unimportant acts or indulging in larger addictions. Once you understand this you can move on with more important tasks, tasks that get accomplished quicker while procrastinating less.

You may not have a serious addiction or OCD problem at all but a mild combination of the two that's making you anxious and afraid to step forward and move on?

If you keep on doing the same things over and over again and creating an unwanted loop, you might be putting life in check and beating yourself up about it.

If you have really bad addictions, it's necessary to address these at root level so that you're not obsessing about them and creating an introductory OCD pattern in your mind. OCD is way of not dealing with real life, going round in circles and being terrified of change, chaos or anything new. If you feel bad about yourself for not resolving your personal issues then you're going to stagnate and remain put.

Controlled fixed habits can be good because they make you more controlled and consistent, but not when the next step is addiction.