[Aspie] sometimes I get a mild headache from resisting the OCD

[lonelyjak]

my muscles tense up and I shake my head back and forth in order to try to resist the OCD intrusive thoughts; consequently this makes my blood pressure shoot up and my cortisol spike. its pretty unpleasant, I spend most of my day like this in some way or another

thankfully im able to control this when im around people, but when im by myself I struggle in the aforementioned manner with OCD. it sucks so bad and it puts me in an awful mood

[lonelyjak]

this is how the OCD makes me feel: