OCD (CDO)

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So a random thread I know but...

My OCD basically consists of me having my own cup and cutlery, I don't share bottles, I don't often eat around people and I have to wash my hands frequently.
Is anybody else similar to this ? Or would like to share there own OCD ?
 
is that really ocd?

do you have any rituals you must do? what happens if you cannot wash your hands or do not have access to your own cutlery?
 
Rudeboy1 said:
So a random thread I know but...

My OCD basically consists of me having my own cup and cutlery, I don't share bottles, I don't often eat around people and I have to wash my hands frequently.
Is anybody else similar to this ? Or would like to share there own OCD ?
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Agh not this thread again.

My wife actually does have OCD, and threads like this where people like to comically share their little foibles are just bloody annoying and nothing like the real thing at all.

EDIT: actually, you know what, I'm going to apologise to the OP. A couple of things in there do actually sound like OCD. My reaction was just to people who say things like, "I have to put my CDs in order lol OCD!!!"
 
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I don't have OCD but I have some quirks that other people find weird.

I hate eating at the table if there are people sitting near me talking or eating. I'm paranoid that they'll contaminate my plate with spittle while they talk. I can force myself to do it tho, and just accept that my immune system can cope with a lot worse.

Like OP I won't share bottles, it's gross. Again I can force myself to do this but wouldn't do it by choice.

I also can't use a toilet cubicle if there is anyone else in the toilet. Often means I sit and wait, and wait... until the coast is clear :p I don't compromise on this, if there's someone else in the loo I'll often just turn around and walk out again, even if desparate :p
 
I'll add a little, I would wait days for a drink until I had my own cup or I would go buy a new one and always make my own food as I don't like people touching it

Also the same as above with the toilets haha, I just walk out till they leave then go back in, if someone comes back in I have to go out again haha :)

Forgot to add something else: always have to check windows and doors a few times to make sure aswell as my alarm I used to get out of bed several times a night to check to make sure it was still set but I'm slightly better with that now.
 
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Fortunately I don't have OCD at all, quite the opposite in-fact - the only thing I'm over the top about is checking locked doors (but that's more a result of growing up in a rough area).

From what I've read it can be quite debilitating & create much hardship for the people who suffer from it (people with real OCD that is, not just 'liking things a certain way').

I'm happy to have my volume on 49, filling up my petrol tank to £39.86 & leaving it right there - having a desk which isn't organised - the fact my DVD's are upside down & back to front across the shelf (that one can get annoying when you can't see the title!)
 
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Disorder is part of my life, I haven't got time to organise myself and obsess about it compulsively.

Example: Every time I post a pic of my system on here I get told off about the untidiness of the wires :)
 
Lysander said:
Agh not this thread again.

My wife actually does have OCD, and threads like this where people like to comically share their little foibles are just bloody annoying and nothing like the real thing at all.
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Agree with this.
Most of us have OCD type traits but proper OCD can be very life debilitating.
I feel the same whenever somebody starts a thread saying "What are your phobias" because I had to live with a daughter with a proper clinical phobia.
 
My gf has traits that are symptomatic of OCD. When she locks our door at night she has to check it three times, and the times I tried to stop her to see what would happen she actually fought me to get to the door. Thankfully that's about as far as it goes.
 
I 'thought' I had OCD, but Im just very particular about where things should sit and they need to be tidy. Seemingly this is not OCD.
 
While I have some OCD like traits I can manage them.

Noticed a women at work (new starter) who I realised is probably OCD - when doing stuff i.e. filing with alphabetic catagories she can't go straight to say G she has to go A, B, C and so on and if due to someone else she ends up in the middle she then goes back and goes through A, B, C and so on til she gets to where she was and when walking on tiled floors she has to step on every other tile - if she messes up or has to get out of someones way or whatever goes back and walks the length of the room again.
 
I think OCD itself is very different to just "liking things done a certain way" - it affects your whole life and you probably don't identify it as being anything other than normal for you.

Sure, I like to wash my hands a lot and I use antibacterial spray on my desk every other day, but I don't think it quite counts as OCD.
 
My brother had it very bad around the age of 14. He was treated with CBT at the Maudsley in London. They did fantastic work with him and he's pretty much free of it now. However, he still has lapses when he's stressed about something, and will need to put his trainers on about 3 times in a row before he's happy.

When he was younger though, it was intense. For example, I had to switch his playstation on as he couldn't do it. He would try and try, but would keep switching it off and on again, before breaking down in tears at the end when it got too much.

Probably sounds amusing to some, but trust me, when it's happening to someone you love dearly, it's heartbreaking :(
 
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Rroff said:
While I have some OCD like traits I can manage them.

Noticed a women at work (new starter) who I realised is probably OCD - when doing stuff i.e. filing with alphabetic catagories she can't go straight to say G she has to go A, B, C and so on and if due to someone else she ends up in the middle she then goes back and goes through A, B, C and so on til she gets to where she was and when walking on tiled floors she has to step on every other tile - if she messes up or has to get out of someones way or whatever goes back and walks the length of the room again.
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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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I'm fed up of people thinking they have OCD when they don't.

An OCD is debilitating and ruins a lot of lives.

Not "I have to turn all the switches off" :mad:
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There are various intensities of OCD. Some people have it mildly, some people have it so bad it ruins a lot of their life and others have it somewhere in between.

Some people have obsessive compulsions, sure but not enough for it to be a disorder.

Your ignorance to this is worse than the ignorance you're complaining about.

Oh, have a pronoun.
 
No really, it is as you seemingly think that there's OCD and not-OCD and all OCD is the same.

"An OCD is debilitating" is an absolute statement, rather than "OCD can be" which is can, but that isn't the rule.
 
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