How OCD are you?

Used to be very bad about having desk tidy and no cables visible I got wireless kb mouse and headset couldn't stand cables.

I'm over it now.
 
Acme said:
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... :eek:

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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Thanks for the reply.

I'm not OCD but I go through at least 5 edits on larger posts.
If I posted what I originally wrote the grammar police (of which I am one) would have me for breakfast.
I always think if I can take the time to do it then others can.
One way of trying to make sense of what I write is doing sentences on their own separate lines like I'm doing now. And then sometimes when I'm happy with my post I will bring a sentence up next to another one like I have done with this.
 
Feek said:
None of that is OCD.
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This.

Try reading a book one paragraph at a time, you get to the end of said paragraph and it has an odd number of words, so you read it again to make sure that the odd number equals out to an even number, 2 x paragraphs at odd number words equals even number of words read. But then you realise that you've read it word by word, and that one word at a time is uneven because 'two' is your thing. So you read it again 2 words at a time. All is good but then you get 3, because you've read it twice at 1 word per time and only once at 2 words per time, and so you have to read it again at 2 words per time to even it up. But now you have 2 times at 1 word per time and 2 times at 2 words per time which kind of makes 4 but at the same time it doesn't, because half of the 4 is 2 because the two halves are different.

Welcome to the real world of OCD...
 
When i set my desk up i measure my monitor with a measuring tape to make sure its bang on in the middle.

i once installed windows 3 times in a row
 
I had OCD when I was younger but only know I did as an adult, I still kinda have it although I don't really see it has OCD as I doesn't bother me to much. Mine was/is obsession with symmetry and the need to feel right.

Like, Acme and his lamp post I have to make things equal but mine is more about my body, if I itch my left cheek I then want to itch my right cheek to make it feel the same. If I brush my left sleeve I brush my right. Pull up my left trouser leg, do the right. Get punched on my left arm and I rub it to take the pain away, I rub my right arm just the same. I can not mirror the action but I feel the difference and the sensation grows stronger and eventually it starts to distract and I start thinking about it until I do the other side.

Imagine walking around with one nicely tightened shoe on and the other unlaced, it's extremely annoying and aggravating.
 
That is NOT OCD...

Also can people please stop saying "I'm a bit OCD" because that makes absolutely no freaking sense. You are saying "I'm a bit obsessive compulsive disorder".

Either say "I suffer from OCD very slightly", or "I'm a bit OC". :p
 
This beats everyone.....
You know when you buy a blu ray or dvd. It is cellophaned right?
Well if I ever open one and if I spot a nick or scratch on the case itself (that 99% of mere mortals cannot spot). I have a secret stash of Amray cases for just an eventuality to replace it. The stash is so secret that they are hidden in my clothes drawer.
Yep, I am sad, but whatever lifes imperfections are thrown at me, I have it covered :)

 
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Acme said:
That is NOT OCD...

Also can people please stop saying "I'm a bit OCD" because that makes absolutely no freaking sense. You are saying "I'm a bit obsessive compulsive disorder".

Either say "I suffer from OCD very slightly", or "I'm a bit OC". :p
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You grammar OC :p.
 
esoteric said:
Imagine walking around with one nicely tightened shoe on and the other unlaced, it's extremely annoying and aggravating.
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Thing is those with OCD absolutely can't get past it while many of us have to tighten both shoes or balance out other aspects and might have some discomfort if we aren't able to but ultimately can get past it - not quite sure what to call it through as to my mind it is "a bit OCD".
 
Rroff said:
Thing is those with OCD absolutely can't get past it while many of us have to tighten both shoes or balance out other aspects and might have some discomfort if we aren't able to but ultimately can get past it - not quite sure what to call it through as to my mind it is "a bit OCD".
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A BIT OC!!! :mad: :p
 
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My OCD isn't that bad..

  • I like my room to be clean and tidy,Cant be doing with th slightest dust on my desk..hoover has to come out with the brush attachment on and suck it up.
  • When at work i have to have things organised before i can start,otherwise im all over the place.
 
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