Anyone suffer from OCD here...

I have obsessive compulsive tendencies that me and my partner struggle with. But certainly not full blown OCD, that gets thrown about the place too often with little knowledge of what it really is.
 
I'll double-check and triple-check that my door is locked when I leave the house, although I think that's fairly normal behaviour?

Both hoarding and OCD fall under mental health, but like what others have said in this thread, it sounds like the OP is a hoarder rather than OCD.
 
fatiain said:
OCD is a recognised medical condition which severely hampers ones ability to function in everyday life.

Have you been diagnosed?
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thing is, in mild cases, these sorts of things aren't necessarily 'diagnosed' unless someone actually pushes for a diagnosis...

a kid with say autism or severe dyslexia might well be diagnosed regardless, a kid with a diagnosis of Asperger's or mild dyslexia probably has parents or a school active in seeking a diagnosis... often the diagnosis of mild conditions gets a bit wishy washy anyway... like 20 times more kids supposedly suffer from ADD in the US than they do in France if you look at the diagnosis rate

tis quite possible that plenty of undiagnosed people have the same traits as the people officially diagnosed with a rather mild form of something psychologists have defined as being a condition
 
I can't go to sleep at night unless the bedroom curtains are closed with the left curtain overlapping the right and all drawers an wardrobe doors closed!
 
Rossi~ said:
I have obsessive compulsive tendencies that me and my partner struggle with. But certainly not full blown OCD, that gets thrown about the place too often with little knowledge of what it really is.
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Yep. Just like people think that feeling a bit sad means you havee Depression, or that Tourettes means shouting out swear words.

The disease in OCD is not in the 'doing something', its in the inability to function, or the irrational fear of the consequences if you don't do that something. Needing things to be neat or tidy is just one way the disease presents itself, but public perception has latched onto that and lead to everyone who likes things to be tidy thinking they have OCD.

It would be like everyone who gets a headache stating they have a brain tumor.
 
I absolutely hate "I'm so OCD about XYZ". People who say that need a slap.

A family member plus a person I have known for 20+ years have severe OCD, and it's not a joke, it's quite debilitating and has a huge affect on someone's life and those around them.

Examples:

Fake OCD - "I'm so OCD about my porn collection, it has to be in date order so I can research efficiently"
Real OCD - "If I don't switch this light switch on twelve times in the correct order something terrible will happen to a family member" (genuine fear and belief)

Huge difference. OCD is not the inability to **** in an orderly manner
 
Used to watch an old neighbour who must have suffered from OCD. She would count how many times she pulled the front door handle. She'd be taking the kids to school and have to run back to count again - as if she wasn't sure she got the count right. Big temptation not to open the window and shout random numbers :)

She seemed to stop eventually so must have had help along the way I guess.


I have a constant compulsion to purchase knackered RC cars for restoration. A mate showed me how to bid on Yahoo Japan for RC cars not available on ebay. It occupies the first 10 mins of every day laying in bed checking my bids, checking for new auctions etc.
 
I used to suffer with this when I was younger. Properly, not like the OP's description, which clearly isn't OCD, merely 'anal-ism'. :p
 
FL630 said:
I absolutely hate "I'm so OCD about XYZ". People who say that need a slap.
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It's a word people use these days which has lost meaning, like gay is used by many people for the wrong reasons. I don't think people who use the word incorrectly mean any harm by it, it's just how our culture has evolved to use it.
 
Someone I used to work with has OCD. She would constantly wash her hands until it bleeds. Her desk had a certain way for everything. It would take her about 20 mins to leave work because she double checks everything, she would pick up the phone to hear the dialling tone, put it down to make sure it's down properly but only to pick it up to check it was down properly...after that, she would open and locks her drawers to check she has locked them. After 20mins of that, she would pack her bags, you can see her count out loud of the things she needs to do before she leaves and when she manages to leave her desk, half way out the door. More often than not she heads back to check again....

It was painful to see.
 
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Raymond Lin said:
Someone I used to work with has OCD. She would constantly wash her hands until it bleeds. Her desk had a certain way for everything. It would take her about 20 mins to leave work because she double checks everything, she would pick up the phone to hear and dialling tone, put it down to make sure it's down properly but only to pick it up to check it was down properly...after that, she would open and locks her drawers to check she has locked them. After 20mins of that, she would pack her bags, you can see her count out loud of the things she needs to do before she leaves and when she manages to leave her desk, half way out the door. More often than not she heads back to check again....

It was painful to see.
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THAT is what OCD is actually like. Thats a good example.
 
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