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The OCD Soapbox
mahvelousmeat:
Anxiety and OCD are linked for a lot of people. I started having panic attacks (which have gotten increasingly worse over the years) because of the anxiety caused by my OCD. They can trigger from non-OCD-problematic circumstances, but that's a major reason they came into play in the first place.
As for the autism/asperger's link, I'm an Education major (going to be an English teacher, woo) and I had to take a class about special education as part of my program. My professor told me that OCD, as far as special education is concerned, is classified as "high functioning autism" because of the rigidity of routines and the distress caused by not following them. Now, lots of people with OCD can function in a normal school/work environment, they'll have their quirks but they can function. Only if someone had OCD so badly that they would have trouble with the everyday classroom tasks (completing assignments and tests, doing in-class work, completing projects, walking from class to class with everybody else, etc) might they have a full special education program (called an IEP, if you care) written up for them. Generally, though, I think these plans would be in conjunction with the therapy they are already having (it wouldn't isolate them from the things that bothered them forever; it would be gradually adding them back so that the patient could eventually lead some semblance of a "normal" life.
So, rambling about special ed = super cool, apparently. But yes, I agree with you, vunja...OCD suxxors and Hanners is awesome. :-) And well said, RefD. Sometimes the person who seems the most pulled-together can be dealing with a lot more than you know.
tonyb640:
I agree with DM almost everyone has OC Traits it is the brains way to understand the world even if we dont understand it everyone makes patterns and has a need for symmitry or asymitry based on the type of person you are. Just because i have to type a sentence out as is would say it regardless of grammer dosent mean i have ODC. I just cant read anythin i wright if it isnt how i would say it. This lead to alot of problems in school but i cant make sence of my wrighting if i get the grammer just riight. I just wanted to drop that in and see what you thought.
Fluffy the Destroyer:
I've had mild OCD for my whole life, and have plenty of contradictory behaviors. Some days it's not even noticeable, and other days I'll waste massive amounts of time on the most trivial things. I can usually function at 100%, but when nothing important is going on, it'll take a whole hour to square up and space every single thing on my desk. Sometimes I wash my hands every half-hour, but other days I can pick up change off of the ground without the slightest thought to sanitation. Once again, "C" does NOT stand for consistent.
Also, obsessions are often entirely contextual; if you view an object, say, for instance, sunglasses, simply as a random, meaningless object, you can entirely ignore the fact that those glasses are not just an article of dirty clothing, but also belong to the disgusting Natasha.
This is just my experience.
[Keep in mind that Hanners is a fictional character.]
Lazer:
I want to think I have OCD but I'm not quite sure about it. It's more just everytime I clean myself I have to do the bathing motions in multiples of three, or start over the whole process. ie: I'm taking a shower so I have to wash my hair nine times, then my arm nine times, so on and so forth. Same with cleaning my hands. I also have a big problem with certain substances landing on me. I especially despise ketchup getting on my bare skin. If it does I'll probably have an anxiety attack until I can find my way to a bathroom and wash my hands.
To a lesser extent, I sometimes get weirded out about how things are arranged and will occasionally go ballistic on my room and reorganize everything for no reason in particular.
Also if I'm having an anxiety attack caused by the things mentioned above it helps me to calm down until a more permanent solution is resolved by tapping on things in multiples of three.
Jeeze Louise I'm retarded.
s0ck ninja:
--- Quote from: AntiEntropy on 03 Jan 2006, 07:46 ---Some compulsions make sense and some don't. I yell or swear when an embarrassing though enters my mind. That in itself can cause an embarrassing moment in a public place. But it makes some sense. It's a way to get the thought out of my mind quickly.
--- End quote ---
I saw this on the first page of this topic and immediately felt like I needed to post a reply. I have a few compulsive quirks, but my one genuine obsession-compulsion is that I can't embarrass myself, think about embarrassing myself, or watch someone else being embarrassed. It gets to the point where, if I'm watching a TV show and a character says something stupid, I cover my face with a pillow for the rest of the hour or just run out of the room. I distinctly remember watching comedies as a kid and rolling around on the carpet muttering to myself because I couldn't deal with it. It makes movie-watching with friends awkward sometimes. xD I've been writing since I knew how, and drawing, too, so looking back at old pieces of work amplifies the usual "artist's shame" to, literally, curl-up-and-shiver proportions. That one makes sorting through old note/sketchbooks a bit troublesome - it's on my mind because I just had to do some of that today. Bleh.
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