How OCD are you?

Bedroom curtains MUST be closed with the left curtain slightly overlapping the right. No sleep will ensue if it ain't like that. I often wake through the night just to check! That's fun.
 
A CSGO youtuber is very close friends with someone who suffers severe OCD. He made a 2 part series about the illness and how it affects her. It's fairly disturbing how bad it is. Part 1 has bad audio but is worth the listen.


 
I used to be really bad with stuff like locking the front door... getting a few minutes' walk away then having to run back to make sure I locked it properly, then repeating a couple of times, resulting in me missing my train to work.

Occasionally I'll get halfway down the road and run back to check but I'm not as bad these days. I just tell myself audibly that I've locked the door, everything's off and the house won't burn down and I'm generally OK. :D

Maybe it's more brain not being fully engaged rather than OCD, though.
 
Rroff said:
Maybe I'm missing something but disorders typically can be mild to severe - just because someone can overcome something doesn't eliminate the disorder factor.
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You're missing the part where his issue there is with people effectively saying 'I'm a bit disorder'. It makes no sense.

You can be a bit OC or suffer from mild OCD but you can't be a bit OCD.
 
Kenai said:
You're missing the part where his issue there is with people effectively saying 'I'm a bit disorder'. It makes no sense.

You can be a bit OC or suffer from mild OCD but you can't be a bit OCD.
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Ah can't really get my head around that one - I've been brought up where "a bit" is as much synonymous with mild as the other usage.
 
Narj said:
I used to be really bad with stuff like locking the front door... getting a few minutes' walk away then having to run back to make sure I locked it properly, then repeating a couple of times, resulting in me missing my train to work.

Occasionally I'll get halfway down the road and run back to check but I'm not as bad these days. I just tell myself audibly that I've locked the door, everything's off and the house won't burn down and I'm generally OK. :D

Maybe it's more brain not being fully engaged rather than OCD, though.
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It's not OCD, it's the brain not being engaged.
I'll even go back, audibly say 'The door is locked' cycle off again and think 'Did I audibly say it?' :D

The last bad OCD I witnessed was over 4 years ago when I used to go work in my car. I used to have my dinnertime in it and a Nurse parked in a couple of spaces from me. By the time she had finished looking round it and re-parking it was well over 30 minutes before she would walk away from it.
 
Monk Disease! :D

I always liked Monk, it was an interesting modern take on the Poirrot character and made the point that an OCD sufferer might well make a good detective because He (or She, just to be PC) might well spot things that are "Not quite right" that a non-sufferer would miss.
 
I used to have a big problem with making eye contact with people, but it just kind of clicked one day that it was stupid and I started making eye contact again. I now probably make too much eye contact that is uncomfortable to the other person :/

I'm a low spec aspie.
 
I imagine any single person who says "I'm a bit ocd" doesn't have any idea what OCD is and how it completely destroys lives in some cases, and is super miserable in most.

Just like I imagine every single person making "damn insomnia!" Statuses at 4am has no God damned idea what insomnia is and how it affects people who actually have it. Sort your crap sleeping pattern out.
 
Rroff said:
Ah can't really get my head around that one - I've been brought up where "a bit" is as much synonymous with mild as the other usage.
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You're still missing it :p

It's the difference between "I am" and "I have"

You don't say "I am disorder", you say "I have (a) disorder"
 
yes 99.9 percent dont have ocd or part of it.

the true ocd sufferer cant complete anything without it being " right "

the number of times for eg could be endless.


so saying oh i straightened my picture or whatever is not ocd.doing it one hundred times then yes that is.

many people just have higher standards or something needs to be done right.thats a choice.ocd is a must not a choice.
 
DampCat said:
I imagine any single person who says "I'm a bit ocd" doesn't have any idea what OCD is and how it completely destroys lives in some cases, and is super miserable in most..
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Just like people who say they have a phobia and then talk about the phobia they have :D
 
My understanding of OCD is it's irrational behaviour that manifests itself as a result of anxiety, or as coping mechanism to pressure, which causes the person to engage in repeated behaviour in the belief it has some sort of positive effect e.g. i've checked the door's locked 3x now I can rest safely.

The truth is once you start with OCD it can rapidly escalate to the point where you need to repeat the behaviour so many times to get the desired positive effect that it can leave you non-functional. I've read a case where somebody chained themselves to their bed at night because they were convinced they would get up and stab somebody in their sleep. Nonsense, but the act of chaining themselves is some sort of OCD catharsis to them.

It's not just a physical thing either, you can get what's called intrusive/inappropriate thoughts which can plague you as well.

It's definitely not something to make light-hearted quips about.
 
I get extremely irritated if common sense solutions are not followed to the point I have to end the discussion and leave the room. Things have to be 'right' lol. It's not much of a case I know lol.

I also check nearly every lock twice. I force myself to walk away but it destroys me so I end up driving back just to check the door lock even though I do things in a way it's impossible to not lock it lol.
 
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