OCD rituals

obsessive compulsive disorder


....my boarder has ocd to some extent...he has been dealing with it for years and you really have to watch him to ''see'' it...

but..he can only do things perfectly..

ie-dishes...he scrubs each dish like there is no tomorrow,,,so i try to take advantage of it whenever i can


anyone else have this or live with someone that has ocd?

 

My boyfriend has OCD. One of the things he does is that when he gets out of the car he has to check the doors like 10 times to make sure it is really locked. When he was doing this to my car he broke the door handle off...

He also has the classics like fear of germs and having to wash him hands all the time.

 

Oh man... you don't even want to know.

Here are three off the top of my head.

*If I am in the shower and my arms or elbows touch anywhere inside the shower after rinsing, I feel I am contaminated and must soap up again.

*I rewash clothes that have already been washed if it's been more than a day since washing them prior to wearing them.

*I must thoroughly wash my hands before taking my clothes out of the washer and putting them into the dryer, as well as before taking them out of the dryer and folding them.

Yup, I am pretty fucked up.

 

i can only do things perfectly too, but i think that's more perfectionism than ocd.

 

I tend to lovingly refer to them as quirks.

I do not like things moved around or out of place.

I wipe things down more than once, like counters. I make exceptions for windows as I hate doing them.

 

My wife used to have this ritual where before going to bed she would lock and unlock the bedroom door once for each of her seven children. If she thought she might have forgotten somebody she would have to do it over.

My ocd ritual is checking for HipForums updates throughout the day.

 

lol ya i guess i am slightly obsessive here as well......

my kid would probably have tons of examples for me too

one of them is peanut butter left on a knife...i dont do it..i wipe the knife clean ON THE BREAD dammit

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I have minor OCD problems...some of them are physical twitches/ticks ...but most involve thoughts.

 

Several years ago I would check a bunch of times to make sure my bedroom door was locked, and that my alarm clock was set. I don't have any OCD traits now.

 

My ex had ocd pretty badly. he tapped things, like doors (fridges and cupboards included) before opening them. When walking up the stairs he taped his foot on each stair, took him forever to climb stairs and I usually do them 2 at a time (and I'm short!)

I don't have OCD, but I have a thing for 3s. Anything whether its a timer for food, or my morning alarm, the numbers need to add up to three or a divisible of 3. For example 7:02 instead of 7 etc... I do feel ancy (sp?)

I also check to make sure doors are locked 2-3 times before I am convinced....sometimes less, depends on my mood I guess....

 

I guess I'm a bit ocd about my nose...it needs to be totally booger-free at all times.

I suppose I might also be a little obsessive about masturbating...just a little...being horny for any great length of time is distracting as hell...

 

I've never been formally diagnosed with OCD, no. Have been told I probably am OC by a doctor, but not a psychologist, an infectious disease doctor (kinda like House, lol) whose son I dated. I don't really consider that a diagnosis, lol. Anyway, it hasn't been debilitating since I was about 11. I have good times and bad times, the good usually lasting for long periods of time, fortunately. It manifests in the form of obsessive thoughts and fears mostly, and irrational superstition. Consciously, I know these thoughts are ludicrous and the superstitions aren't even common ones, let alone logical ones, but there's always that little nagging voice that tends to scream louder than the voice of reason. Just a small example of this- If something bad happens, I usually won't wear whatever I was wearing at that time ever again. And I have real issues wearing clothes after I wore them to a funeral. I'm trying to get over this because now I buy my own clothes, I realize it's a pretty expensive superstition.

I am an obsessive checker, though. I'm always a person you want closing a store, because I check and recheck locks so much. I don't have any specific amount of times I check, or any specific routine, but I guarantee if I worked the shift the night before, everything that is supposed to be off is off, and everything is locked up tight. It's not as bad now as it was when I was a kid. When I was little, I couldn't even stay at school because I'd worry myself sick over what was going on at home.

I used to organize my closet in order of type of clothing, then color, then which ones I liked most to least. My CDs and DVDs were organized alphabetically and by artist, my books were organized in a specific order.

 

I don't know if I qualify as having OCD, but I definitely have some quirks. Most of them revolve around numbers and lines.

A few off the top of my head:

-I count things almost compulsively. I count how long I pee (avg. 12 seconds) and how long it takes me to go to sleep(avg. 450 numbers) I count how long it takes me to forget to count.... lol...

-I often am fixated on making things in my visual field line up. Not line up in actuality, but to where from my spot they line up in my sight. Shadows are a bitch. I've spent a LOT of time trying to make my shadow fit perfectly within a square tile or something like that.

-Driving: It's difficult...because I have to bite my tongue for every white line that 'contacts' (in my visual field) the hood of the car. The patterns get pretty tricky, especially when there are solid lines along with dotted lines. I have it all worked out though.

-Some numbers have personalities and I do not like when 2's are next to 7's because two is such a sweet little number and seven is just an asshole.

-also: if I had my way, every three digit number would be a palindrome.



There's a small list for ya. The people I live with could probably tell you many many more.

 

out of character dining rituals? silly humans will make rituals out of anything.

 

You can't help it if you're just awesome. We will have to learn to overlook your quirks.

I HATE peanut butter left on a knife and thrown in the sink. It turns into grey mush. Wiping it on the bread is how I do it and it should be done that way.

My mister balances dirty cutlery on the edge of the sink with the dirty part hanging over the edge. So if you look at it funny it falls on the floor. It drives me crazy.

 

Mushy peanut butter makes me vomit when I do dishes.


Literally.


Wipe that shit off.

 

i like to organize my car keys on the rings so that the teeth are all facing the same way

 

my kid refuses to eat or drink the ''last'' of anything...he will open a new bread loaf when the other one is only 2/3s done...he wont finish a bag of milk..he pours out the last bit in the sink....also juice..same thing...in the sink...i fight this by buying him tiny juiceboxes

 

Rolling I just looked at your location and laughed, it's a good description

 

thank you...it was inspired by something orison posted......