what is it that you do that makes you a fully paid up member of club OCD?
2007-02-15 14:21:03 · 9 answers · asked by HERBS 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Possibly. I do find, Doctor herbs, that when I approach a front door, instead of ringing the doorbell, I tend to ring my hands instead. This has had a disastrous affect on my career as a door to door salesman. In fact, I haven't sold a single door!
2007-02-15 15:48:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i count absolutely everything - i have this big thing about DOB's so for example let's say i am checking up a celebrities date of birth and date of death, i will have to count how many years they lived for - then i will have to look up their parents and see how old they were when they had this certain celebrity and so on. This isn't because i am interested but because i think that if i don't, something bad will happen. Then i have this big obsession with a door handle at home, where i have to make sure that it's been fully turned. My OCD has calmed down a low since my childhood years, but then i had a problem with blinking a certain number of times - touching things, looking at certain things etc etc....It was a bloody nightmare!!
2007-02-15 22:34:29 · answer #2 · answered by Faith 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not officially diagnosed as having OCD, but I carry alot of the traits.
First of, I'm a counter - I add up every number, rearrange numbers in my head and make patterns out of telephone numbers, lisence plates and such. Sometimes I also allocate numbers to colours or letters and then add them up. I'm forever spotting patterns in things - 5 cars in a row that the lisence plate numbers all add up to 7 for example.
I wouldn't say I'm a 'cleaner' as such, as I've always believed that a bit of dirt does you good, but I do have an obsession with 'contamination'. I've tried figuring this one out, but it is totally irrational and I know there is no chance of me getting any diseases from using certain cupboards in my kitchen, or certain plates, but I'd rather be safe that sorry - just in case.
I also suffer from obsessional thoughts - I think the same thought (bad thoughts) over and over, and feel like thinking it will cause it to happen, and I struggle to not think it - in the end I end up chanting something like 'NO' over and over to break the cycle.
I also get 'locked' in conversation sometimes, my head will 'jam' on a word and I'll just repeat it over and over till someone stops me.
I'm also a bit fussy over order, but I don't know if it is compulsive. Well, it probably is obsessive, seeing as I get upset when things aren't 'right' even though I know that, logically, things are totally acceptable where they are. Things just have to be in the right place - mugs in the right order in the cupboard, things on the right shelf in the fridge, papers in the correct drawer.
I also suffer from dermatotillomania, which is compulsive skin picking. Some people don't class it as a form of OCD, but most do, seeing as it is uncontrollable to the most part.
Do I get in?
2007-02-16 07:11:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
my 11 yr old daughter has ocd, she will sit for hours and just stare at the floor looking for ants, she also will go all day upset about the same little thing and keep crying off and on over it..she also has periods where she doesnt want me or her dad to leave her alone cuz she doesnt think she will see us again..she was premature so the drs say this is nothing compared to what could have been
2007-02-15 22:31:19 · answer #4 · answered by bnd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No longer a member, pal. Didn't keep up with the payments. Better just go and check I locked the back door. Again!
2007-02-16 14:01:29 · answer #5 · answered by pc herbs ryder-richardson 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When i walk i do not step on the cracks of pavements. Look quite mad i think, i have to do certain things when i get up in the morning if the routine is broken even if we have visitors i can get quite moody. That is about all but enough.:))
2007-02-16 12:00:41 · answer #6 · answered by Duisend-poot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
being diagnosed makes me a fully paid member.
2007-02-15 22:54:08 · answer #7 · answered by flowerchild 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I clean constantly and if i don't i get upset, I also have to travel with my whole family or I think something will happen to us crazy, I know. the meds do help but not much. I'd rather clean than do something fun or with the family.
2007-02-15 23:44:20 · answer #8 · answered by jossieray 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nice haircut herbs...
very sexy indeed.
oh yes...now on to your q....if you look up ocd in the dictionary, you'll see my pic. although the meds helped....i'm much better now.
i'm a hand washer....and not for that reason you perv.
2007-02-15 23:13:46 · answer #9 · answered by vegetable soup 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋