I started having symptoms at age 23...

Q.) I started having symptoms at the age of 23, and my life was so much easier before. Sometimes I don\\\'t know what happened to me, I\\\'m not the same person I used to be. I want to know what may have caused the change in my thoughts and what I can do to make myself better?? No one feels I have a problem and they don\\\'t understand, I feel ashamed and therefore, I do not discuss it or ask for help. What can I do?

A.) OCD is an anxiety disorder. Although, it's not a "disorder" it's a by product of anxiety. Anxiety is becoming more prevalent in today's world because of the hustle and bustle increase. Our deadlines are shorter and the hours in the day are stretched more. Technology has not helped us to have more time, but has allowed us to cram more things into our day! Trust me, I am here answering these questions when I have so much marketing to do, but I realize that no one else is doing this and it really needs to be done and I love it! Hopefully getting a marketing guy soon;) so I can do what I really love, which is helping everyone I can...

k, back to the issue at hand. So you can see from above that I feel that the more busy we get as a people, the more anxiety will grow and the more ocd will occur. That is how it originated. It is also learned, like kids who are stressed out by their parents and day cares and traveling and yelling and schools and tv, even kids are affected by stress.

What you can do right now to make yourself better is to reduce the stress in your life. Write down only two major goals that you have to accomplish today. I just did that this morning and my mind stopped spinning! It does wonders. Schedule less things. Take mini vacations where you just lay down somewhere for ten or fifteen minutes and get a good power nap. In Japan and other places they have these places business people can take power naps, we should have that in the US!

"Become OCD free forever!"