Hyperresponsibility or HR

OCD is often called the doubting disorder. Some of us in an attempt to stop these doubts start becoming really excessively concerned with controlling all aspects of our lives and start feeling responsible for just too much. You end up thinking you are the cause of everything that happens. You caused Micky to get the cold because you had the window open. You caused your daughter to be bad at spelling. You caused your mother to get Alzheimers because she was stressed. It is like at some subconscious level you think you are in control of everything so you must be causing everything. Every bad thing in your life is caused by you. Well that's a pretty big cross to bear. There is a wealth pool of obsessive doubts eager to arrive when we become hyperresponsible. So check yourselves out for hyperresponsiblity and give your inner judge a rest.
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I have provided a link. Thanks Funks

Thanks, marg; I read the part about hyperresponsibility. Interesting reading, it was good of you to post it.

http://www.ocd-plus.com/ocd_hyper_respo ... rality.htm


Perhaps this link works better. Marg

Thanks again, marg - I certainly could identify with a lot of that!

Hi Marg,

Do you have any insight into how HR OCD relates to StPD 'magical thoughts' if it relates at all?

I found this article interesting:

Obsessive-compulsive disorder and its related disorders: a reappraisal of obsessive-compulsive spectrum concepts.
Murphy DL, Timpano KR, Wheaton MG, Greenberg BD, Miguel EC.
Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2010;12(2):131-48.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article ... ool=pubmed

esp this figure:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article ... -131-g001/

It indicates that aggressive, checking, religious, and sexual obsessions are more closely related than the contamination/cleaning; ordering, counting, symmetry; or hoarding obsessions. This fits with what I've experienced.

I think hyperresponsibility needs to be noted as a possible consequence of having OCD. If one has doubts entering the mind which are so unwelcome, I can imagine that your personality might connect with the idea of having to do everything perfectly to ward of any doubt coming. I see it like an anticipatory defence.
My son had a classic case of symmetry OCD. I think his personality intercepts the world through his visual field. It is sort of what dominates.He went through highly artistic times in his life. So he gets all visual OCDs. But after a lot of these sort of OCDs he started to get some responsibility OCDs. Like: Did I turn the light off? Did I turn the tap off? He would flick light switches on and off as though he didn't actually see that the light was off.
So for my son I think the HR component came as a secondary consequence.
Now when I think of Superstition OCD. I see a more fearful connect with the world. Connecting to the world through the concept of being safe. So if I do this three times nothing bad will happen to me..... or my family. If that is the sort of OCD you have, I can see hyperresponsibility also being a feature. As your OCD progresses you might just want to be taking responsibility for more and more things that you in reality can't control. Have a look and get back to tell me. I do think HR is a feature of OCD often overlooked.