Well, where do I start. I've been thinking for a long time about what would be a great first post, but somehow it's really difficult to start. But probably it would be good to start from the beginning, with me and my story, so that you first know what it's all about and what made me start this blog.
I'm Vivian, 30 years old and currently a Media Artist student. With this I have found my absolute dream job, my passion, and even if this all sounds fantastic and as if everything would be perfect and happy, there is something that has a lasting negative impact on my life, my monster in my head. This monster is called OCD, more specific a washing compulsion, and it has been living up there for about 5/6 years now. Initially it was small, a shadow ghoul that flitted through the corridors of my mind castle from time to time. But the shadow grew with time and became bigger, darker and more evil and one day it happened that it became so big, a big dark cloud with demonic grinning grimace and huge claw-like hands, that it got the upper hand and caught me completely. Since then I have been chained by my arms and legs in the dungeon of my mind castle and can´t get free. The monster, however, grows and grows and grows, feeding on my energy and thoughts, and as I grow weaker and weaker, the monster grows stronger and stronger.
"But how does it manifest itself, what does the monster do to you and what is a washing compulsion anyway?", some will ask.
Unfortunately I can't say what the decisive trigger was, but it started with the need to wash my hands over and over again, more and more often and for longer and longer periods of time, until the skin on my hands tore open and started to bleed. At that time I didn't know what it was and even less how and why it started, didn´t figured it out till now. I know what image I associate with it, but not the decisive trigger at that time 5/6 years ago. My aunt then told me, after I confided in her, that this is called washing compulsion.