You've Been OCD'd!

Let me just say at the outset that I know that what Mrs Hero is going through is probably 1000 times worse than the mental torture that I endure, so whatever I post here is not trying to demean anyone or trivialise OCD. It is just me trying to make light of situations to try and get through.

I thought it wouldn't be very good reading, if there is anyone reading lol, simply to list all the things that are OCD related that Mrs Hero does. So I thought I would discuss them as and when they push me towards breaking point. That is to say, most things happen everyday, but depending on my mood, they don't always push me to the verge of insanity.

So what annoyed me today?

Has anyone seen the Tango advert, where the guy belts the other guy over the face and then the talkover guy says, "You know when you've been Tango'd!" Well it is a bit like that, except I can imagine the talkover guy saying, "You know when you've been OCD'd!"

No, no, no Mrs Hero doesn't belt me over the head. But we could be walking up the stairs, then all of a sudden, without any warning she will stop, walk back one step, then carry on up the stairs. But it doesn't have to be the stairs, it can be along the pavement, in the supermarket, anywhere.

Once I go crashing into the back of her, the talkover guy shouts out,"You,ve been OCD'd!"

Now I know, to anyone who has no experience of the effects of OCD, they may be thinking, big deal, what is the problem? But believe me, when it happens time and again over a long period of time, it becomes very wearing.

I don't know why this severely annoyed me today. Must have been the side of bed I got out of or something! We were going to the shops, the door to the house was open, all she had to do was walk through the door, down the steps and into the car. I was walking behind her, keys in hand ready to lock the door behind us.

But oh no!

We were walking towards the door, when all of a sudden she stops in the doorway. You think I would be used to it by now, but there is simply no way of predicting when it will happen. I went careering into her almost sending flying down the five or six steps outside the front door.

Not the best start to the shopping trip!