What OCD annoyances do you have?

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OK, here are mine

1) When I wash my hands in the kitchen, sometimes I will dry them with kitchen roll without realising, then I open the bin and throw kitchen roll away, I then realise that my hands could now be dirty again, so I have to re-wash them, then find a hand towl

2) I take handwashing seriously and do it too many times during the day, even if they dont need cleaning

3) Items around my room have to be in exactly the same place. Each thing has its place

4) If im sitting on my bed using the laptop, I cant stand it if the edge of the duvet goes over the actual side of the bed, if it does, I have to get up and re-do the bed.

5) Similar to number 4, if there are creases on the bed I will have to get up and stretch it again to get the creases out, doesnt matter how many times i do this, I could sit down, crease it up again and I would have to get up and de-crease, again!

What are yours?
 
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DJMK4 said:
1) I have to re-wash them, then find a hand towl
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You know the hand towel probably harbours as much bacteria as the lid of the bin :p

Weird OCD stuff? Not anymore. In my teens I went through a phase of having to do things according to a particular pattern. So if I was changing the volume on my tv once I'd adjusted it to the right level I'd have to turn it up one notch, down two notches and then up one notch again. It got pretty ridiculous as the pattern grew longer and longer. Glad that's over.
 
I can't eat a banana when its still got the peeled down skin around it. I have to take all the skin off completely, and then eat it. Its stupid, but I hate the thought of the skin hitting me in the face, and it freaks me out.

I also have to have things like the volume on an even number, it can't be an odd one.

Plus if I am looking at a clock counting something down, I have to look away when I know its going to get to the number 13, I cant see that number so I have to force myself to look elsewhere.
 
I sometimes get out of the house and have to go back in again to make sure that the taps/oven/heating is turned off...

Sometimes I have to run back to the porch door to check I locked it properly. Several times. I always pull the door 3 times to make sure it's locked properly.

I think I'm going bat**** mental. :(
 
You don't have OCD, not in the true sense of the word anyway.

You wanna give serious thought to your mental processes regarding the hand washing thing though. Hygiene is one thing, but I have seen a family member be utterly destroyed as a person due to (proper) OCD related sanitation paranoia, and I do mean utterly destroyed, he hardly left the house for near on 10 years...
 
manic_man said:
You don't have OCD, not in the true sense of the word anyway.

You wanna give serious thought to your mental processes regarding the hand washing thing though. Hygiene is one thing, but I have seen a family member be utterly destroyed as a person due to (proper) OCD related sanitation paranoia, and I do mean utterly destroyed, he hardly left the house for near on 10 years...
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Yeah I have seen something similar on TV about someone who wouldnt leave the house because of OCD and sanitation paranoia, I can gladly say I aint as bad as some of these people, not to the point that it would make me house bound and not go outside.
 
He led a relatively normal life until his 40s when something tipped him over the edge.. he's still very much trapped by his own mind now, but he's coping better with the real world than he was.

Personally, I do like things to be arranged, by that I mean things have a place on my desk or wherever and they are rarely out of place when not in use. I also can't *stand* it when a light fixture doesn't have a working bulb in it, though I think that's more I just can't stand things being broken when they can be easily fixed or replaced...

There's a big difference between OCD and people who simply have an ordered mind and way of thinking, primarily one is a debilitating mental disorder, the other just means you know where stuff is :)

Next time you go to wash your hands, ask yourself why you're doing it...
 
I always have a bite from my cereal before moving the bowl to my designated eating space, I need that fresh crunchy taste..... if I don't do this I won't finish my cereal as I just don't seem to want it.
 
I have quite a lot, dunno ift hey're real OCD's but meh:

1) Wiping my arse well with normal tp>wetwipes>tp>wetweipes>tp etc till not a little bit of brown can be seen. Can't stand having just normal tp to work with I'll wet it up because imo you can't have a clean arse without cleaning it wet. Nearly only poo in my own home ( when I can, I'll hold it up and wait till home even if I have to go baad, but if inevitable elsewhere, I'll just hate the whole experience). Clean the toilet seat extensively before sitting on it ( even if I'm the only one at home who used that toilet in a couple of days).

2) Can't stand not having washed my hands then touching my face or eating or whatever, hate the dirty feel after using things like keyboards/mouses at uni or after working ( I can literally see the ''black''/dirt wash off after work from my hands).

3) Toilet paper roll, must be forward, not backwards ( and in the bit you grab must not be against the wall, will turn the roll around if it's otherwise)

4) Open doors in the house, dripping faucets, turned on devices while not used, etc all kind of small annoyances.


5) Can't stand crumbs on my bed or seat.

I have more annoying little things but these are the ones that pop to mind now.
 
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PianoBasher said:
I sometimes get out of the house and have to go back in again to make sure that the taps/oven/heating is turned off...

Sometimes I have to run back to the porch door to check I locked it properly. Several times. I always pull the door 3 times to make sure it's locked properly.

I think I'm going bat**** mental. :(
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You should start doing what I do to stop this happening. I live in the sticks, so will check all windows and doors before I go out.

I start upstairs and check each window in each room is locked and actually say 'check' out loud once the room has been checked. Once upstairs is done, I say 'check' on the way down the stairs.

I do the same for downstairs and when you go out the front door, you will never have that fear again.

*I know I am a weirdo.

:p
 
Not really OCD, but i eat funny.
I always eat everything in the same order (had macaroni + chips + peas today. I have to eat all the peas first, then all the chips, then the macaroni)
This means that i dont like foods mixed together, and go to a lot of effort no seperate things. (Fig rolls are a good example, had some today, spent ages nibbling the biscuit bit off of the filling, then eating the filling seperately.
 
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Most people who claim to have OCD just have little quirks, as everyone does.

You're OCD about something when you can't sleep or leave a room until something is perfect.

Saying "oh my god I'm OCD about the volume being an even number" doesn't count :/
 
Not OCD but the pans have to all line up on the pan stand at 45 degrees and no remaining time can be left on the Microwave. The wife knows this and deliberately leaves a few seconds just to annoy me.
 
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