Posted by Catmom on January 25, 2004, at 17:35:39
In reply to Re: Trivial but not so trivial to this OCd sufferer, posted by 8 Miles on January 25, 2004, at 17:20:58
Good luck with your work. I hope that you are finding this weekend helpful.
Some of the things I did that helped with some OCD tendencies: I would make up a list that would say "write" and then put down the hours that I was committed to writing. I would intersperse it with hours for reading, tv, computer, or whatever else I was into.
If I have a list, sometimes, really quite often, I can persuade myself that I MUST follow it. An allocation of time that I have dictated to myself on paper helps me. Of course that might not work for everyone.
I also with the advent of word processing especially learned that I did not have to be linear. I especially enjoy working on conclusions first so that I know where I need to arrive at! Sometimes it ends up being revised, but looking at the end point has been helpful for me.
Good luck!
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