I suffer from OCD.
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder in which the sufferer develops anxiety based on the dread that something bad has happened or will happen.
The sufferer then feels compelled to voluntarily perform irrational, time-consuming physical behaviors to diminish the anxiety.
Hell! I suffer from it but so does the system and everyone within it.
A few examples-
Meeting OCD
Any recession scared organisation requires you to chair and attend a gadzillion meetings..which propose nothing , solve nothing and involve only intellectual masturbation ...and this we do 24*7 ..Yeah!
Sometimes we get up in the middle of the night to attend meaningless nothings...Fairly repititive behaviour you would agree..
But why does the system have OCD..What does it fear?...The system my friends and all of us ants working in it fears extinction..someone somewhere is going to figure out that this is not the best optimisation of money, space and time...and so it is busy socialising the myth across all it's sectors that the only acceptable behaviour is investing in Meeting OCD...So next time you glibly call a meeting..take a step back and think ...are u a basket case or not?
Relationship OCD
This is a given...Our post modern society keeps pushing love on us guised as OCD.Irrational continuous behaviour like non-stop sms, non stop calls,non stop chats, non stop declarations of love ...are all the hallmarks of a rocking relationship..aren't they...?
But my bone of contention is not with the OCD of love but the OCD of the other relationships which make up life..
The parents and greater family network...They always know dont they, what's the best you could have been,and complusively they remind you day and night of what you obviously are not..Dont they get it ....I know.
But the messaging across the mother, aunt media countinues....And what about the OCD of friends...
Friend 1 OCD- Give me space...Ur Ignoring me .Blow Hot ..Blow Cold. Love You in the Morning , Hate you just sometime after that...
Friend 2 OCD- Let's meet , let's meet, let's meet .....Who are you again?
Friend 3 OCD- I want to be someplace else with someone else..and yes let me remind you of that once more
Friend 4 OCD- Your such a loser..and man do i rock and do u even know the number of people who love me and whom i can pick up and drop anytime.....again and again repeatedly...Realllly!
Friend 5 OCD- Everyone is more important that you are..However dont you dare stop being around for me when i want to bitch , wail and cry...:)
What do they fear? What we all fear ...Being invisible..unimportant..and just another face in your album..We strive to leave a mark..for in memory we live as deities because in reality we are jerks.
My Personal OCD- I fear the world i live in...I fear that fact that work, love , commitment, friends, the world I have defined as my life is such a transactional , negotiated space..where the only rule that exists is the rule of extreme Narcissism...
That's the largest OCD -ur important and wonderful as long as you fit into someone else's plan of how they want to define their world.The moment you stop fitting in.....your waste or wasted..
As the childhood limmerick goes..Everyone Hates Me.. I think i will go and eat worms....
