This body is high maintenance af

I despise having to go through the daily rituals of maintaining this body. Eating, drinking, sleeping, peeing, pooing, showering, brushing, it's just all too much.

You can reject doing all of those things.

Generally speaking, a lot of SPDs tend to favour routines - it's where we shade into being OCD-like. So, even if we don't particularly care what the world thinks of our appearance, we keep up the body maintenance habits.
But not all SPDs are the same of course.

UK SPD wrote:it's where we shade into being OCD-like

Is listening to songs on repeat for days, and watching the same shows over and over ocd-like? I've just stepped into the water of mental disorders/illnesses.

I agree with you on a lot of these. The main one: Sleeping. I was watching a Star Trek episode the other week, and Miles O'Brien asked an alien if it needed to sleep. It's reply was "I only require seventeen minutes per day."

Good lord, if that's all I needed, I would be the happiest person on the planet. Holy cow, I could get so much more done in a day.

I don't like showering, shaving, or getting my haircut. I shower because I don't like it when I smell other people, but I'll let my hair a beard grow out long, and for weeks, if not months, think "I hate how long my hair and beard are..." But every single time I get asked "want to go get your haircut?" I say "Nope!"

Tyler77 wrote:I agree with you on a lot of these. The main one: Sleeping. I was watching a Star Trek episode the other week, and Miles O'Brien asked an alien if it needed to sleep. It's reply was "I only require seventeen minutes per day."

Good lord, if that's all I needed, I would be the happiest person on the planet. Holy cow, I could get so much more done in a day.

As much as I love sleeping, I resent the time it takes out of my life (I'm the same way with eating). Due to almost constant anxiety, I find it hard to get things done, or to be able to relax enough to enjoy my hobbies. Worst, when it is time for bed, I suddenly feel measurably more relaxed and suddenly feel like doing all the things I was too uptight to do throughout the day. I'm guessing this is because in my mind I've closed everything up for the day, everything is taken care of, and there's nothing left to do but go to sleep. This, in turn, relaxes my anxiety a bit and all my obsessions and compulsions seem to ebb. Very frustrating. Do I waste this functional frame of mind by going to sleep or do I take advantage of the only window of time where my thoughts and acts aren't dictated by OCD? By just asking myself this question, the OCD comes back. I can't win.

i don't know. sometimes i hate it that i need to stop and go brush my teeth and stuff like that, but at the end of the day i realize that "maintaining my body" is at the core of "what my life is all about", and my brain is just a part of my body

my main problem is that i can have a really hard time dealing with priorities when there's other seemingly arbitrary stuff that i need to do in order to be left alone. getting rid of those obligations tends to become highest priority, but actually doing what needs to be done first for that to happen (including sleeping, eating, etc) doesn't. so my health deteriorates, and i accomplish nothing

i try not to be too dependent on it, but medication seems to be the only reliable thing to break that vicious circle