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minimessi20

OCD and executive dysfunction

Question about OCD

I was diagnosed with OCD about 8 years ago (that feels weird to say). I did therapy, and OCD has little effect on my life at least in the way of anxiety and compulsions. I’ll still get them every so often but I can deal with those. What is effecting my life is executive dysfunction (from what I can tell from research and talking to others with executive dysfunction from things like ADD). Brief research on Google suggests it’s something that can occur with OCD. I got therapy for compulsions, anxiety, but not this. Mostly cuz it’s popped up only recently. For context purposes of this, I got my diagnosis and did therapy at 19. I went through 5 years of university doing engineering with no issues. I went through the first couple years of my career with no issues. Now I have issues with executive dysfunction. Any suggestions or ways I can fix it? I hate it and want to fix it but at the same time…executive dysfunction…

Posted Mar 8, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

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