School tips - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
Hey, I go to BYU and OCD definitely makes it like a lot harder to do school, to focus and to study and to, you know, do everything that you need to do. But something that's kind of helped me a lot is doing something else other than the schoolwork you're supposed to do. Having something else present that can distract that part of your brain, right? And so like, for example, chewing gum helps me. I tap my feet a lot, might not be for everyone because that gets annoying to some people, but it helps me to like try to keep it in a rhythm, you know, then I can just focus right on my paper and my mind isn't going to any intrusive thoughts or anything. It's just, it has a constant thing to go to.
Video 2 Transcript
Sometimes when you have OCD, you want your notes to look beautiful. You want them to be neat, orderly, everything. However, you can't make them beautiful, neat, and orderly when the lecture that is being given requires notes to be taken quickly. So, something that I do is I take all the notes and they look like trash, however they are legible, and then I bring them home and I study my Pinterest boards, I look at them, I look at the handwriting that I'm trying to accomplish, and I just rewrite the things into a notebook that I can actually study with, something that I can feel comfortable with, and that helps me not only to remember better because I wrote it down twice, but it also makes me feel better because things are exactly as I want them to be, even if it's not right now. Things don't have to be perfect right now.
Video 3 Transcript
So one thing that I think is related to OCD, this is a little bit of the perfectionist aspect, is sometimes I'm like, if I don't feel like I know how to do something, if I don't know that I can do it really well, then I'm like, why do it at all, you know? But it's really important to note that, you know, any effort is worth it. It's good to remind yourself that you're not in school to, you know, just to get good grades. I mean, that's important, but you're there to learn, you know, and any effort you put in is going to pay off, and, you know, even just starting can do a huge amount, you know. So don't, you know, it's good to have high expectations, but when that becomes an obsessive thing, definitely check it and make sure you can just put in a little bit of effort without, you know, expecting yourself to do the whole thing all at once.
