who here has (or had in past) OCD~obsessive Complusive Disorder? Or who has ever lived with someone else with this problem? Typical Obsessions Obsessions are recurrent, intrusive, and unwanted thoughts, impulses, or images that cause significant anxiety. At first the obsession may be experienced as relatively benign. Over time, the person associates it with fear and disabling anxiety. Obsessions fall into the following common thematic categories: Fear of contamination with dirt, germs, or poisons Fear of having a serious illness Fear that one's actions hurt other people or cause bad things to happen Inability to discard useless items (hoarding) Inappropriate sexual and aggressive thoughts and images Need for symmetry, order, or exactness People suffering from OCD realize that they create their obsessions. They feel that the content of their obsessions is out of their control, inappropriate, not indicative of their character, and something they wouldn't normally think or communicate to others. Thus, their anxiety is intensified not only by recurrent obsessions, but also by the strangeness of the obsessions.
Yea, I used to pull my car over whenever a YES song came on the radio, and couldn't continue driving till it was over lol
Not really, my friends got confused when i was younger because i was always washing my hands and i didnt think twice about it.
Yeah I have several ocds... I can't stand things not be arranged my way in a room, I don't like things that aren't symetrical, I clean a lot and can't touch anything in a public place without a tissue, and I can't sleep if a drawer is open...
And yes I also obsess a lot over things and for example always think that if I think badly of someone, it'll turn against me so I can sometimes start obsessing over these thoughts for hours... and I am hypocondriac, too. I take Zoloft to heal, but it doesn't really work... or maybe it'd be much worse if I didn't take it? Kinda scary...
lol but if you have ocds too then it's a problem... because the girl wants things arranged her way, and the guy wants things his way, and it causes frustration and arguments...
A husband of a friend of mine has typical OCD... The saddist, maybe most shocking side effect is that she goes elsewhere for love and sex because he's drained of all his emotions... He's a hard person to live with, but she handles the care part of thier marriage fantastically... Interesting to hear what other people think of this and to get other experiences of this part of "Living with OCD"...
That's the scary thing about medications.... we really do need them! I have OCD tendencies.... like that sleeping with a drawer open Penny, I also feel that way but not as intensely... it will just irritate me until I do something about it, but it makes me feel short of breath.... I get that when people visit cometimes if my house isnt in "order", I get short of breath, but I never tell anyone.
I get short of breath too, and sometimes in cases of extreme irritability I can get very itchy, and sometimes need to yell... lol you must think I must be horrible to live with, but I'm trying to control myself and getting better at it each and every day
I also get anxiety sometimes, last night I swallod half a gram bag of blue powder thinking it was oxycontin or percocet crushed up, turned out to be xanax. Needless to say I woke up on my floor this morning.
i think i've obsessed a bit here and there. but then, i think everyone kinda does from time to time. unless they're harming themselves or unable to carry on an active life, i wouldn't call it a disorder.
no one should take pain killers recreationally. they're addictive and turn you into assholes... I know my ex fiance had a problem with them. I kinda wanna murder anyone who takes pain killers without needing them now. I take Xanax too for my anxiety. But I really need it, I don't take it for fun... where's the fun anyways... all it makes me is calm and horny, if not sleepy...
Thanks for the kind words Penny, but actually my lung collapsed over the weekend, so I could possibly be in need of them, since I cant get a refill until tomorrow Remember, you dont always know what people are going through
