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Acme said:
THAT is what OCD is actually like. Thats a good example.
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You should see the way she folds a letter into an envelope.

It's not even not that neat in the way the paper folds but she puts the letter in, instead of just peel the glue strip and closes it, most of the time she takes the letter out again and put it back in!

You just get frustrated and feels helpless.
 
Good example Raymond, that is proper OCD and something I have seen regularly with my family member. The problem is that the consequences of not doing such actions (such as being stopped or interrupted) can be, in their eyes, catastrophic. It looks funny from the outside but I have been told it is hell from their perspective.

However, drugs and psychotherapy do work well to treat it. If the OP genuinely does feel he has it, get a diagnosis and get in the counsellors chair, it's the best thing you'll ever do.
 
EddScott said:
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.


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I have the door thing, as well as light switches, the handbrake on the car and unfortunalty checking the cars in gear. I even take pictures of the door on my phone in an effort to get out faster it doesn't work. It's a horrible thing, my wife helps me out at home she even gets up early to help with the door. I have a chant i say to myself. If I'm last in work I avoid going through certain doors because I know I'll have to check they are locked. That said when I've left work and driving home I never think about the doors in work or look at the pictures on my phone.
 
I've just downgraded myself from "borderline OCD" to "having serial annoying habits" after reading this thread.

For example, if I'm travelling alone, I'll check I still have my passport every time I move to a different part of the airport and get just a little twitchy for an instant if I've moved it into a different pocket and it takes me a few second to locate it.

If I'm travelling with the wife, she'll have all the documents and I'm as relaxed as a very relaxed thing on opiates.
 
Terminal_Boy said:
I've just downgraded myself from "borderline OCD" to "having serial annoying habits" after reading this thread.

For example, if I'm travelling alone, I'll check I still have my passport every time I move to a different part of the airport and get just a little twitchy for an instant if I've moved it into a different pocket and it takes me a few second to locate it.

If I'm travelling with the wife, she'll have all the documents and I'm as relaxed as a very relaxed thing on opiates.
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I'm the same, just super worried about losing something important that could leave me stranded though. It's a completely rational fear really.
 
I don't suffer from OCD and I can imagine it not be very pleasant but couldn't you trick yourself in to being very productive? That sounds useful! :p
 
dark-knight said:
A friend of mine suffers from it, when I say suffers I mean is in constant turmoil with the condition.
Checking thing numerous times, making sure things are done in a correct order and multiple times and has been reduced to tears with the worry and thought he's missed something. Terrible.
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Hmmmm by the sounds of it I suffer a very mild form. Always double checking things - including walking half a mile to check a door because I just couldn't relax unless I did even though I knew I'd never have left without locking it.... and it's been picked up that I have to do things in a certain order or I throw the dummy out of my pram apparently. I get frustrated very easily because it is such common sense to me as it has to be logical.

I think it's an injury I suffered that has caused it as I was a totally different person before. So irresponsible and I'd wing everything but now I always have to have a back-up plan and I can never have something unless I have double and triple checked I need it.

It sounds bad but I'm not that bad although I do struggle a lot with simple things like it annoys the hell out of me if someone doesn't answer their phone or get back to me that day. It's a mobile phone! MOBILE! So you should have it on you as you often check it! :D lol
 
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 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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Second thoughts maybe I don't? I'm just over-anxious?
 
Thekwango said:
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!
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This is quite normal, else the monsters would come.

I hate cupboards left ajar, as someone mentioned switches left on with nothing plugged in. Doors left open. Going to bed without ensuring all curtains are drawn closed and neat. Everything must be in its place, preferably arranged in size order, or in symmetrical patterns.

As with many things there is a spectrum, from completely debilitating, to quirks. I am sure most of us have some quirks or another, few of us are debilitated by our need for patterns and compulsive behaviours.
 
I don't suffer from OCD, apart from having to write things twice or else something bad will happen.

I don't suffer from OCD, apart from having to write things twice or else something bad will happen.
 
My cousin has actual OCD. I can assure you, liking things neat and tidy is not OCD. You're like those people who complain about insomnia cause of their crappy sleeping pattern.
 
helpimcrap said:
Second thoughts maybe I don't? I'm just over-anxious?
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It can take her over an hour to leave work...she finishes at 5, sometimes she is there at 6, staring at the phone, checking her drawers and sitting there with her bag on her lap looking all flustered.

Like she KNOWS she has to leave but can't and getting more upset by the minute.
 
I think OCD, even though a lot of people know about it, it is still a grey area.

Personally I have been suffering with OCD for quite some time now, and while you can learn you manage it to some extent, there is always that feeling, that is something isn't done right, if I don't check that lock, if I don't do what I think should be done it drives me mad.

Small things, like what Raymond mentioned with the phone, I have been known to do it. While trying to hide it, people notice. But I also think it relates to over analytical behaviours. So for an example, instead of looking at something at surface value, I look at it far deeper, thinking of all the scenarios, all of the things I would need to do to make it right.

I think everyone experience of OCD is different. Some people have to tap, check locks or have a certain routine they have to adhere to ever single day. It makes you on edge if your in a situation where you can't do such rituals eg; in a meeting.

Personally i'm a very stressy person, which doesn't help. Always on edge, always thinking about the things I NEED to do in my mind. In reality I don't, but in my mind, it is the only thing what makes sense. Sometimes it goes all silent when I can focus solely on something, even then it is not very often.
Things like counselling to learn how to manage these cognitive thoughts, or medication helps to some extent, making some days far less frustrating. But unfortunately this doesn't work of everyone, myself included, sometimes it can make it worse.

Sometimes it is like getting stuck in a trance, and not being able to do anything else until that particular thing done. Trying to explain it is very hard, as the signs can be very much the same, but the experience and actions of how we deal with it can vary so much. :(
 
No, but as a child I used to have obsessive little challenges..

I'd break into a sprint and think "I must reach that lamppost before that car gets to the corner otherwise my mum will die"

Lots of silly challeges which mainly involved me having to run or cycle really fast to save my mum.

Grew out of it in my teens.
 
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 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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Sounds like me (aside from the hand bleeding).

When I was very young, I would have to do silly things before school like wet my finger and wipe it around the edges of parts of the bathroom weighing scales. Turning taps on and off.....the list is endless. Thankfully, I'm much better now, though it's still 'there'. Unfortunately, I just don't seem to be able to deal with stress well at all.
 
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I think I suffer from OCD, but I've never discussed it and it has never been diagnosed. I have this bizarre issue where I have to recheck settings on any sort of device, over and over again, until I am completely certain that the setting is as it should be.

Biggest one is settings in software (e.g. graphics control panels, windows settings, game settings, etc). I frequently found myself spending anywhere up to 10 minutes opening and closing a dialog box just to check that a setting has actually enabled or that it hasn't magically changed, even though I know in my mind that there is no logical reason why it would be any different when I check the setting again. It's annoying as hell and the compulsion is a very real thing. You can actually feel it having a physical presence in your mind and it can get overbearing sometimes, like a physical weight on my shoulders making me do something that I know I don't have to do. I've sort of managed it myself, but time to time I get seriously anxious over tiny things, for absolutely no reason. Best way I can describe it, is that it is like an infinite loop your brain gets stuck in and you can't get out of it.

I also get annoyed when people say OCD when it's not actually OCD, but just a silly quirk they have. Actual OCD can be a horrifying and at times painful experience for the sufferer. I think I have a very mild form of it, but even for me it can get exhausting at times
 
I have very mild OCD. A place for everything and everything in it's place. I like neatness but I can tolerate untidiness so not a huge issue. I like ordered environments. I like things to be straight and aligned with each other.
 
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