How OCD are you?

The-Hoff

The-Hoff

The-Hoff

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For me, it is not about washing my hands every 10 minutes. It is just about having things perfect. I could order a book from Amazon and it could have a crease or be slightly dog eared. It would annoy the hell out of me to the point that I would eventually buy 10 then pick the best and return the other 9.

And don't talk to me about gadgets. Every 2 years when my new phone is due, I go through at least 4 before I am happy. It annoys the hell out of me but I just like things being right.

Oh and don't even go there with a gaming monitors etc. If I find even 1 dead pixel then it goes straight back. I am dreading going to 4k because my purchase alongside it would be a magnifying glass.

I equally love and hate my curse.
 
The-Hoff said:
For me, it is not about washing my hands every 10 minutes. It is just about having things perfect. I could order a book from Amazon and it could have a crease or be slightly dog eared. It would annoy the hell out of me to the point that I would eventually buy 10 then pick the best and return the other 9.
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How horrible is it when someone licks their fingers for the corners of each page! Or they fold a corner god damnit!

Oh and don't even go there with a gaming monitors etc. If I find even 1 dead pixel then it goes straight back. I am dreading going to 4k because my purchase alongside it would be a magnifying glass.

I equally love and hate my curse.
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LoL! The heat of the hairs behind your neck when you find one.

youtube.com/watch?v=Tm4LKR0gMoo
 
Being "slightly OCD" is something that I found out recently is not a real thing. You are either OCD or. not and that is quite obvious and serious issue.
 
I used to suffer from OCD and I can tell you that it is not anything like this... At my worst I had to walk on one side of a lamp post, then I'd have to go back and walk on the other side, and then do it both sides again. I used to have to check a door was closed about 5 times.

Sometimes when faced with an obstacle I wouldn't be able to move past it until I had remembered which way I went around it last time, so I could go the other way to keep it even.

That was about 10 years ago, Im mostly 'normal' now. :rolleyes:
 
Acme said:
I used to suffer from OCD and I can tell you that it is not anything like this... At my worst I had to walk on one side of a lamp post, then I'd have to go back and walk on the other side, and then do it both sides again. I used to have to check a door was closed about 5 times.

Sometimes when faced with an obstacle I wouldn't be able to move past it until I had remembered which way I went around it last time, so I could go the other way to keep it even.

That was about 10 years ago, Im mostly 'normal' now. :rolleyes:
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Was a woman at work who had to step on certain tiles when walking through the office if someone was in the way, etc. she'd go back and do it all over again and again and again - sadly 1-2 people caught on and would play her up.

Used to think she was slow as when filing, etc. she'd go all through the alphabet instead of jumping to the letter she was after but I'm guessing that was an OCD thing as well (if someone hurried her up or pointed the right place out she'd still go back and go through the sequence again after).

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Being "slightly OCD" is something that I found out recently is not a real thing. You are either OCD or. not and that is quite obvious and serious issue.
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I dunno - certain things I'm not comfortable with i.e. if the image on the bottom of my cereal bowl isn't the right way around but not to the point where I absolutely can't leave it alone though it can take a bit of getting past.
 
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I am a slob! :D

But the reason is that in my heart it is a bit catastrophe theory really.

I know that if I went the other way, even a little bit, I would end up going there Hard!

And that is much worse than being a slob, really! :eek:
 
Rroff said:
Used to think she was slow as when filing, etc. she'd go all through the alphabet instead of jumping to the letter she was after but I'm guessing that was an OCD thing as well.
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It was yes, having to do everything in full sequences is an effect some people suffer from. I can't remember if I did that or not. Bearing in mind that I was 11, 10 years ago. :)
 
I dont really know if it's OCD but I seem to have started needing to put the car into first gear at least 3 times before I'm happy it's in place.

It's a brand new car no issues whatsoever so no idea why I've started doing it :confused:.
 
I don't think thats OCD as such, you would have noticed lots of similar things in other aspects or your life. It may just be that you have a great deal of mechanical sympathy and have to check because you did it absent mindedly the first time and weren't sure if it was fully in gear. :)
 
Acme said:
I don't think thats OCD as such, you would have noticed lots of similar things in other aspects or your life. It may just be that you have a great deal of mechanical sympathy and have to check because you did it absent mindedly the first time and weren't sure if it was fully in gear. :)
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I wasnt really sure. Probably just a irrational habit I've picked up somewhere.

I dont think I've ever ground the gears in my life (gearbox disintigrating doesnt count :D) it bugs me I'll do it even if the lights have just turned green, poor sods behind me lol.

It's most definitly not debilitating.
 
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Mynight said:
I wasnt really sure. Probably just a irrational habit I've picked up somewhere.

I dont think I've ever ground the gears in my life (gearbox disintigrating doesnt count :D) it bugs me I'll do it even if the lights have just turned green, poor sods behind me lol.

It's most definitly not debilitating.
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I remember years ago before I could even drive. My friends dad would check the handbrake every 10 seconds whilst at traffic lights........and later in life my friend started doing the same, and still does to this day lol.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
Wow Acme, that was pretty serious.
How did you become 'normal'?
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Magic I think... Serious answer below.

I don't know the technicalities, but I was brain damaged at birth (as in the brain damage was caused as I was born), which left me with various 'issues', they kept developing into different things as I grew up, and then started to fade... There were a mixture of symptoms from different things, ADHD, ADD, Aspergers, and OCD mainly.

I don't actually remember much about the first 13 years of my life, but I went to various rehabilitation places, special needs schools, counselling and psychiatry of all different kinds, I think I tried to kill myself on a couple of occasions as well... I also seem to remember having to travel to a special place in London to have blood tests done on several occasions, and other tests, because nobody could figure out quite what was wrong with me...

But then my parents managed to get me into a normal school, and that seemed to kick all that rubbish in the teeth once I had been exposed to 'normal children' and I made an effort, and it all gradually improved... A few years later and my mental health records were no longer there to be viewed by future educational institutes or employers... It took a lot of fighting to make that happen too...

It now feels like I have had two lives... If I think about anything that happened in the first 13 years, it feels like I'm remembering something I read somewhere.

Don't think I've said any of this on here before...

The 'leftovers' are now anxiety, depression at times, being absolutely rubbish in social situations, and not thinking before I speak when posting on this bloody forum, leading to a high volume of tosh and a lot of post editing... I'm typing this sentence in my 8th or 9th edit...
 
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The-Hoff said:
I remember years ago before I could even drive. My friends dad would check the handbrake every 10 seconds whilst at traffic lights........and later in life my friend started doing the same, and still does to this day lol.
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Great I'm stuffed then :D.

Don't think I've ever seen my Father doing it. Will have to check next time I'm in his car.
 
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