What does needing things to feel "perfect" or fully optimized look like in your day-to-day life, and what has helped you find a little more balance with it?
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Belong
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Anyone else feel like there's always one more way something could be arranged, timed, or done "right"? I've noticed that with my OCD, it's never really about laziness or wanting things to look nice — it's this nagging sense that if I don't optimize everything, something bad or just deeply "off" will linger. Over-optimizing everything with OCD can turn small decisions like picking a route to work, replying to a text, or organizing a drawer into a whole mental project, because some part of my brain insists there's a "correct" version out there and I have to find it before I can relax.
It shows up in weird places too — rewriting a sentence a dozen times, redoing a task because it wasn't quite efficient enough, or lying awake running through whether today could've gone "better." It's exhausting in a way that's hard to explain to people who haven't experienced intrusive thoughts about optimizing things, since from the outside it can look like just being detail-oriented or driven, when really it feels more like being stuck.
What does needing things to feel "perfect" or fully optimized look like in your day-to-day life, and what has helped you find a little more balance with it?
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