[Serious] Mentally Ill people of Reddit, what is your illness, and can you try to describe what it is like?

Other people have it worse, and I'm not diagnosed, but I'm not stupid or naive enough to convince myself that SOMETHING isn't up. The symptoms I can compare it to is Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Pure OCD. Pure OCD Means constant rumination; mental rituals rather than physical ones. Constant worrying, analysing your own thoughts, intrusive thoughts. Over-thinking things. It makes my physically ill at my worst. Like a nagging feeling inside of your chest and no matter how deeply you breathe its always there. Its exhausting, pure exhausting, you can't just sit and BE. When you find a way to get over one obsessive worry your own mind seems to act to outdo itself; it 'evolves' in a way. No matter what your own head will find some way to make you feel awful, some forgotten thing from ages ago to keep you from being happy. Things can get 'tainted' in my mind, a bad thought will pop into my head and then it'll stay there whenever I'm in a certain person's presence, which is awful because I KNOW its ridiculous and I know its not their fault. Sometimes I worry that I'll lose control or something one day, at my worst. I can compare my mind to having broken headphones; manageable if you keep it in place and constantly 'coping'. Most people have working earphones and listen to music and watch movies without knowing how god-blessed lucky they are just to be able to THINK normally. And for a lovely sprinkled on top my attention span is worse than a goldfish's. I'm always restless, I find it difficult to sleep. I have to be doing SOMETHING yet I can't hold down many long-term projects.

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