I never thought to ask bout this til now. I find myself being a strangly superstitious person. I will never, ever, ever no matter what, leave the volume of anything on the #13. I feel if I do something disasturous will happen. I refuse to listen to certain songs because I feel they are jinxed. just because something bad happened to me and those songs were playing, I now feel they jinx me. If I see the clock and its 1:11, 2:22, etc. I HAVE to repeat a wish in my head over again til it changes time. I try my best not to drive between the reflectors on the road, I feel if I do something bad mite happen. its just things like this. I can just convince myself that something is unlucky and I'll refuse to do it til the end of time. and I dont just think ohhh no I'll have bad luck, I seriously think that if I were to listen to that song, something horrible will happen. I also find myself being obsessed with precise timing. I have to know exact minutes between things, if I call my boyfriend, I can't call him again for a certain amount of time, I refuse to do it. It's crazy is this a problem or am I just weird?
i suspect that would be considered a problem... it has to be interfering with your life in some ways...
i get that too with the clock, i usually stare at it until it changes though, without blinking. If i see a ladder against a wall i usually make sure i walk under it.
I once walked under a ladder, then went to swing in a rope and the rope tore and I fell on my ass and it hurt. I've avoided walking under ladders since. but it sounds like you have tendencies toward obsessive behavior.
when I was a kid I always did the staring at the clock thing. And I'd have to count how many lines there were in the total time. you know, how on alarm clocks, they have the red lines that write out the number. I had to add those up before it changed time. and then about a year ago I started the repeating the wish thing. I dunno, Ive been doin it since I was bout 7
I'm not a superstitious person at all...But each person is different... to help you feel less weird, I don't sleep with my closest open...ever...it scares me...
I thought I believed in superstition cuz I never thought it could be OCD. but now that I am googling it, I'm startin to realize that maybe I am :-/ and Im the type of person who could get really carried away with these things if I let it happen. maybe I should start researching it a little more. they even mention getting angry if things can't go a certain way, if my boyfriend leaves the volume on 13 just to joke and see ifI notice, cuz he thinks its funny, I flip out. And until he changes it I feel real uneasy, and I truly think something bad will happen. oh mann... ok. well I'm glad I've asked.
When you believe in things that you don't understand Then you suffer Superstition ain't the way, no, no, no..
i knock on wood...and by "knock on wood" i mean that i jerk off...you'd be suprised how well it works...
aw, you have OCD. runs in my family, and youre not even half as bad as my grandpa was. he saved every convo he ever had with the computer service people and organized it alphabetically in piles.HUGE piles too. and teeth. none of his kids were allowed to have crooked teeth. and if anyone got a cut, hed put so much antibiotic and peroxide on it, hed scar it. he was mad ocd with it. it could be worse hun, haha.
you obviously have obsessive compulsive disorder. i had it when i was little i had to say certain names of animals over and over for no reason
Could be OCD, could also be mild autism (Asperger's). My son has Asperger's and he sometimes melts down if things aren't done a certain way. It was worse when he was younger, he's 9 now and has learned that the world won't end if I mix the spaghetti sauce in with the noodles...
