OCD, what's yours?

jcb33 said:
2) If I am sleeping in a room with a mirror in, I must cover it with a towel.
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Seen the film Mirrors by any chance? :D

Mine:
1. Checking and rechecking House/Car doors are locked. I actually got a bruise on my palm from all the checking.

2. Checking that taps are off...

3. Checking and rechecking emails etc before sending them

I also highlight text when I read webpages but thats just because its easier to follow!

I thought I was bad but after reading all these I feel much better! :p
 
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Reading this thread is giving me anxiety!

My only vice is halitophobia - fear of my own bad breath. Those that I've confided with tell me I don't have a problem and to be honest, the old breath check usually suggests they're right. But I still spend too much time flossing, brushing and rinsing my teeth several times a day. I also chew a lot of sugarfree gum. When I'm sitting at my desk at work I tend to take sips of water and hold it in my mouth so my tongue doesn't taste stale. I don't know when it came about - probebly after some girl complained about my breath in high school...
 
OCD is probably part of the way the brain works, or at least copes with the complex tasks we've evolved to deal with. So mild forms (at the very least) are to be expected in all of us... whether we recognise it or not. :-)

I had a pretty unsettled youth, and I think my brain found some kind of order by making me "unthread" every journey I made in exactly the same way I'd made it. ie If I walked a particular way to school (left round this tree, stepping on this manhole cover, touching this lampost, etc) I'd have to reverse the journey in exactly the same way when I returned. Otherwise I'd leave a tangled trail through life.

I used to try and break the habit by leaving a deliberate 'tangle'. But then I'd inevitably end up going back to untangle it... even if that meant walking a long way to do it! Rather pathetic really. :-)

I also used to *have* to touch things with both hands (light switches etc).

As I got older, and had more control over my life, the need for this stuff faded away. But obviously things like checking the cooker's off and front door's locked are always issues because... well, because they're things which genuinely need checking. At least once. Maybe twice. Then again, just in case you were wrong... right? ;-)

Andrew McP
 
Some other minor ones I have, must have the sound on my tv on an even number, 10, 12, ect. Check every inch of chicken, fish, chips and crisps for bad bits before I eat it and put coins down tails up. Oh joys and madness of OCD :rolleyes:
 
I have to check everything multiple times. The worst is getting into bed only to go downstairs and check the gas on the cooker is off two to three times. Same goes for locked doors and turning other things off. When I leave the house I have to double or triple check I have everything with me. I make up weird orders every time and I have to check the items in that order, even if it involves running up and down the stairs unnecessarily.

I'm also obsessive about placements. Objects have to be parallel to other nearby things and when on the computer I have to line things up to be pixel perfect. Other things on the computer consist of checking program settings multiple times over periods of days to make sure they're exactly how I would like them to be and that sound controls have to be on an even number. Same goes for a TV.

I also hate knowing I own stuff I do not use; particularly when it comes to software etc. For example, it would really bug me if I had a game registered to my Steam account that I did not use; I'd rather remove it somehow and have to buy it again at another point. Same goes for XBLA games. Speaking of XBOXs, I have to keep my controller perfectly clean. My hands and the controller get wiped pretty much every time I go to pick it up.

These are just the ones off the top of my head and I could list many more if I wrote them down every time they occurred. I have problems :(
 
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When I'm working on posters, leaflets, brochures, excel spreadsheets etc at work I'm continually trying to improve them to the annoyance of my colleagues.
I have to proof read all letters before they go out but over the last 2 months I've been proved right on that one.
I have a temp member of the team who keeps sending stuff out and I have to pick up the pieces because info is wrong.
No matter how many times I ask her to pass it through me she won't so last week after another complaint I complained about her to my bosses (first time ever).
 
If answering a traditional phone (eg ring ring....ring ring....ring ring) I MUST pick it up while it's ringing, i can't answer it during the pause between rings.
I also avoid answering any phone unless it's mine, ie work phone etc
 
Mine isn't anything major, I just can not stand my hands being sweaty. In summer I can wash my hands 20 times a day easy. It's a pain in the butt.
 
Right before I cut their pretty throats I always have to masturbate onto their hair then wash it with Original Source Mint Shampoo.
 
If i'm paying attention, I will not step on lines or cracks on flooring, work floor is a laminate wood effect, and when walking in the direction of grain, I will step to avoid all lines
 
Jez said:
As someone who works in comms rooms all over the country on a regular day to day basis, i hate you :p

Messy comms cabs are ideal. Much easier to work with. Cable ties and routed "tidy" cabling just turns everything into a nightmare of cutting and redoing everything.
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Tough! :D

I do not cable tie stupid crap like network cables, I hate that too. Dedicated racks with dedicated PDU cable routing etc.

Anything that has to move, has to move!

And messy cables are a NIGHTMARE when they tangle, get wrapped around each other and get off knotting oneanother giggling between themselves awaiting your arrival. :p
 
I have to have my phone in my right pocket, it can never be in my left, my mp3 player goes in my left pocket

in regards to my mp3 player, I cannot listen to a track that's started halfway through from the last time i turned it off, and I can't skip back to the start of the track, I must skip forward to the next new track
 
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