Thread Topic: Welcome to the OCD Forum
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cilia
Joined: Jul 18, '09
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2009-07-18 19:14:30 |
| Orderman, I don't think you're necessarly OCD, probably more of an intense neat freak. My boyfriend is in the military and is very bothered by things being unclean or out of place, like you are, but as strong as this trait is, it was a learned trait for him. I'm rather messy but I've always done weird compulsive things, like not step on sidewalk cracks and eat certain foods in certain ways, and I don't really know why, I just feel stressed and irritated f I don't do it. | |
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Jenziraptor
Joined: Jul 28, '09
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2009-07-28 03:45:44 |
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I haven't been diagnosed with OCD but my boyfriend, Danso, has. He believes that I also have it... and I think he may be right. I always have to straighten things or they bother me, we both do it. When I was trying to decide which flavour Oasis to pick up, I eventually picked up the one which there was one more of, to even it up, and he said he knew I was going to pick that one for that reason. I wear a watch on my left wrist and on my right wrist I wear either a sweat band, four bracelets or four glow bands. No matter which of the three I am wearing, I have to have them a certain way around, in a certain order. It really bothers me if I don't and I check them many, many times each day. It's the same with the ring I wear. If I somehow end up not wearing one of them, it really bothers me. If I have to take my bracelets off I end up scratching all around my wrists and some times I make them bleed. I actually feel really nervous without anything on my wrists and start imagining people grabbing them or cutting them... I also have hypermobility, meaning I have looser ligaments and tendons and so my "joints" will click (it's actually ligaments and tendons moving over the bone and making a clicking noise, my doctor said). Danso said he noticed that when I do it, I have to do it on both sides. I have noticed this is particularly true when I click my neck each way (I've been known to push my neck one way as hard as I can, to the extent that it really hurts, trying to make the other side click on the occasions where it won't) and when I crack my knuckles. He said he's noticed the same about scratching and that I nearly always do it on the right side first. I find it really frustrating if he has one sleeve rolled up, I move people's things sometimes because they aren't straight and are bothering me (luckily, no one's ever minded!). I hate drawing some times because I'm not very good at it so I can't get it right. At one point, our OCDs clashed. We were on a set of escalators and I always have to have the steps immediately above and below me empty but he wanted to stand on the one next to me. We had to compromise and both have an uncomfortable 15/20 seconds where he had one foot on the step below me. The other day my grandparents were staying and my Gran set the table for dinner... I walked in and pretty much re-set the table because things weren't right, weren't straight. These things don't really bother me. It's not often that I /can't/ do something which is bothering me and so I'm generally fairly content with it. However, most people with it seem to find it a real problem so I'm just curious as to what people here, who really have this disorder, think of my "symptoms". A lot of people I have seen have said, "I wish I could stop it. It's really frustrating." but my boyfriend, who has been diagnosed with OCD, doesn't seem to find it too much of a problem either. Do my examples sound like real OCD to you? These aren't all the things which I do but I feel it is a big enough example for you to get a good idea of whether or not you think I have it. Thank you for reading, your comments will be appreciated. ^_^ |
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inmichigan2
Joined: Jul 27, '09
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2009-07-30 06:31:31 |
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I never thought of having OCD symptoms because my house is never perfect. But I do get into really repetitive practices. I might get obsessed with keeping one area of the house clean. I get obsessed with doing my homework "just so" and repetitively read chapters (2-3 times) for one class while neglecting the other classes. I go so locked into a repetitve-motion hobby that I have trouble letting it go to attend to real life. I get obsessed about my hubby saying GB everytime he leaves the house, even if I'm napping and he's just getting cigarettes. He has to behave just so on certain things, but can behave any old way on others. It's confusing. I might keep one area of the house really clean and let the others go. I obsess over keep that room tidy. Then it circles round. I can't see the forest for the trees, and I get angry and stubborn when someone points this out to me. |
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fantasy
Joined: Jul 28, '09
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2009-07-30 11:07:43 |
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I'm pretty certain myself doesn't have OCD. But I do have some obsessive behaviors, like when I take a test, I have this paranoia that I'll pick the right answer but bubble in the wrong letter. So after bubbling in the answer, I check over and over again that the bubble on my sheet matches the answer that I wanted. Over and over again .. once it was so bad I couldn't complete the test. I'm trying to get myself to ease off and let go. (Jenziraptor: That bracelet thing sounds crazy..) |
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DreamAngel
Joined: Sep 6, '09
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2009-09-06 22:19:07 |
| I read everyones post. I have been OCD my whole like and my family still makes fun of me because I like things neat and in order. I am a clean freak. So what!!! There is no way to ever break free from it. Several years ago I was in an accident and I am now limited on what I can do. I feel that this was a sign to tell me to slow down. So now I just accept things the way they are. I still am OCD, dont get me wrong, I just had to learn to live with it and accept things the way they are. Yes, I still keep things neat and clean, it just takes me longer to do it, but also I say to myself, I did the best I could, if it is not hurting anyone then I can live with it, but if it is something that will hurt someone or myself then I speak to my therapist about it and together we work on a way for me to overcome it. So I hope this advice helps someone out there and if u would like to talk me, please feel free to write back and together maybe we can help each other. This site is a big help to me, I am so glad I found a place that I can speak to people who understand what it is like to live with this disorder. Hope to hear from someone soon, it would be a pleasure to chat with someone who understands. | |
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chuimistro
Joined: Sep 14, '09
Status: New User |
2009-09-14 03:30:45 |
| I never realized until like maybe a year ago but i think i suffered ocd. During primary school which was when i was around 8 - 14 I went through phases of compulsions. I used to do everything a certain ammount of times like 4 times, and if i didnt do it well i needed to to it 4 times again. Alot of time wasted and i grew frustrated at having to repeat it all the time. Also I blinked alot, and eacch blink had to be done that certain amount of times, and often i blinked like frekin crazy. but i concealed it best i could. I also made a m noise from my throat alot and repeatedly ddid it a number of times until i felt i did it in a satisfactory manner. Then the worst was a t sound a made which i had to do a number of times too, until i felt satisfied. I also had a phase of quicly tilting my head up a certain amount of times, bending my wrist so i could feel a wobble in my wrist, and touching someone who touched me multiple times usually four times(though in a not so obvious way). Now that i think about it, it was pretty obvious i had obsessive compulsive disorder, and im pissed at how oblivious everyone was, and how uneducated they were to realise i had it.. Though i never seeked help. Now I no longer have a compulsion to blink or make the m noise or make the t noise or touch eveerything a certain amount of times etc. Now i think im in phase of saying i hate a certain amount of ppl in my head while saying i like a certain amount of ppl in my head. This is literally f---ing annoying and i hate it, but i think my ocd is getting better. The previous compulsions went away i think because of will power. I kind of told my self to stop and it was f---en reetarded to do it.and then i just didnt do it and if i did i would maybe slap my self a bit. hahaz it worked. My ocd kinda make me have an urge to do something like a realy almost unstoopable urge to do something, but if you force urself not to do it for a long time i think it will die away. Thats wat happened to me. But to be honest u should go see a psychologist they kno better, and i dont think drugs are permanent to curing ocd, rather get some training. From a psychology class i happened to take without much thought, i learnt that ocd may be treated exposure to what you fear ie in some cases one fears germs and must make everything clean. there are others but u should go seek a psychologists. WOW its pretty amazing how much ocd's i went through and without realizing until i wrote the f---ing list. Does ocd mess u up? i dunno i seem fine atm apart from the urge to say who i hate and like in my head until i feel satisfied, but i can control that urge quite well. However it does piss the s--- out of me when i read and the urge to repeat names in my head. I wrote too much, but hey i have a had a bumpy ongoing life of a variety of phases of ocd. But i can say that it is no where as severe as before. Yet i still fear acquiring another ocd soon, but im sure i can sto it easily. LOLHAHAMUHA OCD is a PAIN good luck with trating it if u have it. | |
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adam
Joined: Nov 24, '09
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2009-11-24 14:39:56 |
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I must be really messed up Paranoid: Very High Schizoid: High Schizotypal: High Antisocial: High Borderline: Very High Histrionic: Very High Narcissistic: Very High Avoidant: High Dependent: Moderate Obsessive-Compulsive: High some of these actually contradict others!? I think my main problem is OCD. I do really wierd things that have no logic behind them. For some reason it takes me about 30 seconds to turn on a light, and i cant shut doors without touching the handle after. I have to make sure the door is locked about 5 times before getting in the shower. I also wish i was dead for about 50% of the day |
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LORRAINE
Joined: Nov 27, '09
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2009-11-27 23:36:37 |
| I am finding out now, that my messy house is an OCD issue..... | |
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LORRAINE
Joined: Nov 27, '09
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2009-11-27 23:38:07 |
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this is a HUGE SURPRISE.....oh, sure, I used to drive around the house twice, and bless myself before going to work, and then make sure I could see the back door in my rear view window |
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LORRAINE
Joined: Nov 27, '09
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2009-11-27 23:40:00 |
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typical OCD stuff....but I just found out that hoarders have OCD. I kind of got over the rituals, maybe because now I have so much CRAP I don't need them. |
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LORRAINE
Joined: Nov 27, '09
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2009-11-27 23:43:38 |
| anyway, any hoarders here, let me know! I have been so busy beating myself up for the state my house is in, I am feeling a LITTLE better finding out there may be a reason. Oh sure, I know I am a perfectionist...and what that means is, if it can't be PERFECT, then why even do it. | |
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LORRAINE
Joined: Nov 27, '09
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2009-11-27 23:44:45 |
| going to bed now.....God bless us all! | |
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darterrri
Joined: Jan 1, '10
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2010-01-01 12:36:38 |
| OCD is a control issue, among other thing I have OCD when it became obvious to me was after a fire burned our house down I thought there might be a ritual that could prevent that from happening again so I tried to do everyhting to prevent bad luck I gave up on physical ritual because I realized I couldn't control certain things when I was a junior in high school. I became fustrated with checking the lock and booby trapping things when someone was still able to break into our house (another family member in a domestic violance situation)my mother the supposed leader was not safe because of someone else therefore I OCD on what i could control my words. I went to extremes I would go all day repeating conversations word for word disecting them to make sure they weren't offensive or offend anyone. My therapist thought me to allow myself to do it 3x's and let it go. Don't do it anymore. I didn't until the next conversation. 3x's only. It is OCD but simmered down. (Not all of us have OCD) Some people say sometimes "don't do it and the world wouldn't end" there right, but I have DID. My self defence mechanism if I don't do these things is switch; we get so confused and when we're out of control sometime everyone want to take over the situation and sometime none of us wants to deal with it because the one with the OCD is feeling unsafe and insecure.And if it is not dealt with the next time that one that suffered most trama that has the OCD comes out she might come out with those unsafe, unfinished emotions and it may be the wrong time like when we re driving and next thing you know I'm confused on the highway and I have no confidence and my driving and for some reason began to obsess on gas and brake, that one almost drove us off a cliff if it was that high raised cement...I always let the Tomboy drive because she goes on instincts and react faster to high risk situations. We have to repect each other's issues to allow us to heal and intergrate. | |
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