OCD (CDO)

spoffle said:
It'd be great if you had an obsessive compulsion to get "you're" correct. :p

As for this woman at your work, does anyone interrupt her on purpose, knowing she has to start again?
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Think I'm the first person to even notice it - at first I thought she was just slow. For the most part pretty decent group of people where I work wouldn't mess around with someone in that way.

My mind doesn't process your/you're (bad education) so I don't even realise I'm doing it to correct it.
 
Not personally but this post should smoke 'em out

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:p
 
I won't eat/share food that someone else has "contaminated", e.g. if my girlfriend drunk out of a bottle of water I would refuse to drink out of it.
 
smoove said:
What term?
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The term OCD. You were acting like all OCD is the same. It's not, some people have it mild enough that it doesn't get in the way of their lives, others have it to the extent that it controls their lives.

The notion that people can only claim to have OCD if it's of the life ruining severity is incorrect. You said yourself, that it's not having to turn switches off, except some people do have some obsessive compulsions that makes them feel the need to flick a light switch a certain number of times, or something equally "trivial".

The amount it ruins a person's life isn't the metric for whether it's OCD or not. Sure, some people think that they have OCD because they're a bit particular about certain things, but you inferred that it's not OCD unless your life is ruined because of it.
 
I have telephone cord OCD, If I'm using a land line phone and especially at work and the phone cord is twisted and bent i make it my mission to straighten the cord out to its correct coil then rewind it around a pen to restore its shape. if the cord id misshapen i get really obsessive with it
 
PussyCat said:
I have telephone cord OCD, If I'm using a land line phone and especially at work and the phone cord is twisted and bent i make it my mission to straighten the cord out to its correct coil then rewind it around a pen to restore its shape. if the cord id misshapen i get really obsessive with it
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Let me guess, you didn't read the thread.

spoffle said:
The term OCD. You were acting like all OCD is the same. It's not, some people have it mild enough that it doesn't get in the way of their lives, others have it to the extent that it controls their lives.

The notion that people can only claim to have OCD if it's of the life ruining severity is incorrect. You said yourself, that it's not having to turn switches off, except some people do have some obsessive compulsions that makes them feel the need to flick a light switch a certain number of times, or something equally "trivial".

The amount it ruins a person's life isn't the metric for whether it's OCD or not. Sure, some people think that they have OCD because they're a bit particular about certain things, but you inferred that it's not OCD unless your life is ruined because of it.
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You're defining it by your own terms. It's called "obsessive compulsive" for a reason, not "I can take it or leave it". Also, OCD doesn't just challenge the subject's lives, but those close to them.
 
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Lysander said:
Let me guess, you didn't read the thread.



You're defining it by your own terms. It's called "obsessive compulsive" for a reason, not "I can take it or leave it". Also, OCD doesn't just challenge the subject's lives, but those close to them.
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Yes but different people are consumed to different degrees by these obsessive compulsions.

There ARE varying degrees to it because not everyone suffers to the same extent from it.

Just because your wife has it, and it's life controlling for her doesn't mean get own situation is the rule for how anyone has it.
 
If I remember correctly, there's a seperate category for more straightforward compulsions that are rooted in something rational but taken to extremes, such as having to have items arranged in precise lines and precise order or having to do a task in exactly one particular way...yeah, here it is. Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder and the differences between OCPD and OCD:

http://www.ocfoundation.org/uploadedfiles/maincontent/find_help/ocpd%20fact%20sheet.pdf

So when I check the locks and bolts on every door in my home...and then check them again and check them again and check them again and check them again before I can go to bed, that's a bit of OCPD.

When I load my washing machine and then unload it in case a kitten is in the clothes and then load it again and then unload it again in case a kitten is in the clothes and then load it again and...all the time knowing that there aren't any kittens in my house and in any case I put the clothes in myself, completely free of kittens, and all the time knowing that my behaviour is wholly irrational and pointless and I'm becoming increasingly nervous because I know I'm being a bit mental here...that's a bit of OCD.
 
I met someone with severe OCD, it made me sad :( It really does make her life hell and very difficult to live and also to be around. Huge respect to those that look after people with it.

I don't have OCD, but am a bit of a neat freak (i.e. CDs in order, a place for everything and everything in it's place, items labelled and identified, and items 'quarantined' that don't belong anywhere, and if not used are thrown out), however that is not OCD.

I don't like seeing it trivialised either - but at the same time, one must accept that people will use the "I have OCD" line in a non offensive way, to just mean they are neat and tidy, or have funny quirks or idiosyncrasies that people may find weird.
 
valkynaz said:
I won't eat/share food that someone else has "contaminated", e.g. if my girlfriend drunk out of a bottle of water I would refuse to drink out of it.
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but you'll happily stick your face in her snatch or kiss her lips after she's been going down on you?
 
Most people's problem is they think the symptoms of OCD are actually OCD. People with OCD have an uncontrollable compulsion to do something, usually through a fear of the consiquences if they don't.

I'm quite anal with certain thing, I like stuff to be in line, things like that. But I do it because I just like stuff to be like that, not because there are voices in my head telling me that my parents will be killed unless I turn the lights off 27 times when I leave the room. Liking things tidy is not OCD.

Its the uncontrollable obsession over something that makes it OCD, not just the 'something' you do.
 
People that won't share things other people have touched, or use public toilets, or similar do not have OCD. Further to that, you're ****ing weirdos that make everyone uncomfortable as a result of your social retardation (someone had to say it).
 
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