[bonz]

Recently I've been feeling really stressed and low and wondering whats causing this. My ocd has come back and I've been going out more than usual but now I'm always tired, lazy, don't feel like doing anything progressive and just feeling s**t. I want be where I was before but I simply don't have that energy to pick myself back up.
I guess this has mainly got to do with my ocd getting more worse again and my more outgoings to cause all this extra stress maybe?
Does anyone have days, even weeks of feeling worse in terms of sudden change in your routines?

 

[GreenLantern]

I've been going through a similar situation. I felt like everything was going well for a few months. I was getting better at small talk with strangers and was making some acquaintances. I started going out a bit more, and then it just gradually started changing. Started feeling depressed and wanted to keep away for a few weeks. Came to the point where I was on the verge of dropping out of school and ready to just leave everything behind. In fact, I even packed up my things, withdrew some cash, and drove from LA to Santa Barbara. I had some time to think during my drive, and I ended up realizing that I may be making a mistake and turned back.

I think all of that was caused by stress. I had just started a new semester, I was recently laid off, many of the people I was hanging out with returned to their colleges that weren't near by, and I was stressed over being clueless about what to do in my future. Once I realized what I was stressed about, I kind of focused on each problem individually. It definitely calmed me down. It's overwhelming when you focus on all your stressful problems at the same time. I still kind of get these mood swings, but once I realize its because I'm focusing on too many things at once, I start becoming calm again. Hopefully that would be helpful to you too.

 

[formaltide]

Recently I've been feeling really stressed and low and wondering whats causing this. My ocd has come back and I've been going out more than usual but now I'm always tired, lazy, don't feel like doing anything progressive and just feeling s**t. I want be where I was before but I simply don't have that energy to pick myself back up.
I guess this has mainly got to do with my ocd getting more worse again and my more outgoings to cause all this extra stress maybe?
Does anyone have days, even weeks of feeling worse in terms of sudden change in your routines?

There are so many days that I could have done something that I just trudged through in lethargy, feeling completely drained. I don't have OCD, but since I generally stress out and cry most days of the week (usually after waking up), I'm drained for the rest of the day and I have trouble caring about anything and I can think of nothing except how much I want to sleep and never wake up again.

It's a state of exhaustion and negative thoughts, and it can sometimes wreck any progress that I feel that I had made in the past days by getting in the way of something or making me stop caring about it. I'm not sure if that's how you feel, but it's a problem that's been troubling me as well and I'm not entirely sure how to get rid of it either. Whatever the solution is, it has to be done before the stress episode happens, or I'm literally too drained to do much else for the rest of the day except sleep or go through it like a zombie.