Do you have OCD?

Yeah, my memory sucks.

But the door thing is a bit more than usual procedure. And I have to do it exactly the same each time.

 

You share some similarities with myself. Particularly when you said you obsess over things and then drop them immediately, that is exactly how my behavioral patterns work.

I sort of want to share my experience, but I feel absolutely humiliated by the idea of it.

 

To Lock Any Door....

To Program Any Electronic Appliance....

To Follow Any Set Of Instructions, All Require A Set Procedure.

Failure To Follow These, Will Surely End In Tears....

Methinks You Are Looking For Probs, When You Really Have None....



Cheers Glen.

 

Thanks Doc. I'm cured now.

 

Moe: Did you lock the door?

Curly: Yeah. Twice! Once this way and once the other way!

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I used to have a massive eye twitch as a teenager, though that paeticular tick I thankfully outgrew

point is, my mother used to tell me "everybody blinks", and as much as that is true, it was a pain to hear that because I knew it wasn't the same as the normal way. People bullied me in school... why would someone gather bullies because they blinked, if it was in typical fashion?

I know what you were getting at, for what it's worth.

 

Glad To Be Of Assistance......

My *over inflated* Bill Is In The Mail......

Failure To Pay Within The Seven Day Period, Will Incur Legal Action...

Have A Nice Day......



Cheers Glen.

 

Well this is part of what I do.

I turn the key 6 times.

Then try to open the door.

Then I turn the key 4 more times.

Then it gets weird after that, lol.

 

What if you busting for a wee, though?

 

How Weird.???............:hide:



Cheers Glen.

 

That'd suck.

 

He Does What Every Other Red-Blooded Bloke Does........>>>>>

He Piss'es Off The Porch........



Cheers Glen.

 

I go back in to go, then start all over again before I leave.

A series of motions that I will not get into, lol.

I know I could stop this at any time. But I also do it as a way of bringing luck to myself. If that makes any sense.

 

Sorry....Doesn't Even Come Close To Making Sense.....

Note To Justin_Hale.....Must Try Harder.....



Cheers Glen.

 

I do the door because it cements it into my head that it is locked, and I don't worry about it all day.

The luck part starts with the 6, then the 4. 64 is a lucky number for me because it means something. I'm not saying what. The other things I do also mean something. And I'm not saying what.

Have you ever seen the show 'It's Showtime at the Apollo'? They have a tree stump that everyone rubs for good luck when they come on stage. Something like that.

 

I think the difference is I was actually diagnosed with OCD at a mental hospital. People throw it around like it's nothing "get a hobby". I'm a full time art student! Mine isn't as typical, I don't have to turn the stove on and off to make sure it's off or lock the door 4 times. It's more like intrusive thoughts. When I was young i'd wash my hands alot to the point where i'd cry because I felt like it was taking over my life. It wasn't a thing where I thought the world would implode if I didn't it's more of a... If I wash my hands the intrusive thought will go away. I still have them, it's one of those things that you never really get rid of you just get used to. I'm not really surprised by all the judgement everyone is so uninformed. Sad.

 

My best friend has OCD, she just recently started explaining it to me and it utterly fascinates me. We were driving down the road one day and she started counting out loud "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9" I was completely baffled as to what she was talking about, she started pointing towards the curbs on the side of the road...the step before a driveway is 1, the driveway is 2, and the step after it is 3. She says she does this constantly in her head and can't ever stop.

I said something about the count of something being 12, and she started with some weird number sequence I didnt understand "12 and 12 makes 24 and that makes 48 and divisible by that is 24 and it all comes out to 12 again, don't you see?" I didn't see at all lol...

We were supposed to take a trip one day and she got off work late so I was at her house waiting for her. She walked in, saw the dishes weren't done and the floor wasn't swept, and said she was going to be freaking out the whole time we were on our trip if she didn't clean first. A normal person would be able to put a mess out of their mind if they were already running late for leaving town. I ended up cleaning up for her while she packed because I knew she really would be completely obsessing the entire time.

she has a list of things she does every morning and if she does anything out of order it ruins her whole day.

someone mentioned sticky hands earlier..if her hands get sticky she completely freaks out.

she was diagnosed when she was 13, I think she took meds for like 6 months then decided to cope on her own. She told me she has most of it under control, I cant even imagine how bad it was before it was under control.

She throws herself into dance and music,which I think is really good OCD therapy because of the repetative counting. in dance, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. and in music, 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 .

I'm fascinated by the way her mind works. I dont view it as a disorder, more so as a really distinguishable difference.

I think everyone has OCD tendencies to a certain extent. When I'm walking on a sidewalk, the cracks I step on have to be even on each foot. If I step on a big crack with my left foot I have to step on a big crack or two small cracks with my right foot. I have this little rock formation on a bookshelf right when you walk into my house. I can't leave the house unless they are in perfect formation-my roommates move them constantly to fuck with me. When I used to fight with my ex boyfriend, I would come home in tears and clean the house from top to bottom. It was the only way I could feel in control.

but these are just tendencies. I never really understood how overwhelming true OCD can be until I met my friend.

 

i seem to experience serial OCD symptoms one topic at a time. That is, i am not generally OCD in my life. But, ever since i was a child there was always ONE THING that had me. ONE THING that i spent/spend all of my time thinking about. ONE THING that i try to maximize doing.

The current manifestation of this OCD is N,N,DMT use. But, i find now that i am approaching 18 months that it is easing off a bit. i still use heavily but i find i DO actually think about other things . . . .

To me this suggests that within 2-24 months i will no longer be so interested in DMT (hard to believe right now!) but that something else will grab my obsessive/compulsive interest. This has been the pattern that has held to date . . . .

 

spicey cat that sounds more like obsession without the coupling of compulsion. Compulsion is what makes people with OCD absolutely HAVE to do something.
i have the same kind of obsession that you have. I get intensely focused on certain things for a few months at a time. This year i went from being obsessed with drums, to the guitar, to writing articles for a local paper, to learning how to sing, to writing a musical, to pushing my body as hard as i could possibly push it...I'm really single minded and focused, but I wish I could focus on one thing for longer than a few months at a time, or I wish I could focus on all those things at the same time. I end up not getting anything accomplished because as soon as I get really into one thing, something else will grab my attention and i'll get obsessed with that.

 

OH. MY. GAWWDD. LOOK HOW NUTTY I AM. MY HAIR IZZ FRICKIN' PINK, MY RUCKSACK HAS THE POWERPUFF GIRLS ON IT.... I'M TOTALLY GAY!!! I MEAN I LOVE MAID IN MANHATTAN SO I GOTTA BE!! I MY FAVOURITE BAND IS MY CHEMICAL ROMANCEE!!!! I TOTALLY HAVE OCD. AND DEPRESSION. AND MY CAT DIED. I'M DEAD. DON'T JUDGE ME, I'M JUST ME. BLAH, BLAH, BLAH

It's a very trendy disorder, you know.