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The OCD Soapbox
frullic:
I don't really have OCD but I thought I might as well share my quirks since this is the place.
I constantly make sure my computer is configured the way I like.example: I get angry when someone merely changes my screen alingment. I also hate getting liquids in contact with my skin, I'm agorafobic, I'm always stretching, and I stress all the time. I also have that zit compulsion. I'm trying to stop that.
BTW, Hanners is so cute but I prefer bipolar brunettes, says the scar on my arm.
Muppet King:
This probably wasn't the best thread for a hypochondriac to read. I have never been diagnosed with OCD, and I don't personally believe I have it. However, I do have some rather nagging issues with some things in my life.
When showering I have to do everything in a precise order and rhythm. If I don't then I have to step out of the shower, dry off, and then redo everything in the proper order. If the water pressure isn't strong enough I have to shower until I feel I'm clean enough. If I go a day without showering because I'm sick, I have to do everything twice to get the second layer of dirt and germs off.
If I mispronounce a word I have to repronounce it correctly several times, putting emphasis on the part I mispronounced initially.
If I see anyone crack their knuckles I have to do it too.
I have to balance everything in my life, even my bad habits. When I chew on my lip I have to do it in a number ending in zero or five and once I'm done on one side I have to do the same on the other side.
Surgoshan:
--- Quote from: Muppet King on 29 Feb 2008, 19:16 ---If I see anyone crack their knuckles I have to do it too.
--- End quote ---
Back in high school I broke my wrist jumping over a bush (yes, all teenaged males are retarded. Period). Now, if I move my hand right it goes clickclickclickclick. If I ever have to stop you taking over the world, I know how. Mwa ha ha ha ha ha!
About Hanners' smoking. Any of you ever heard of David Sedaris? He's a humorist with OCD. Every once in a while he feels the compulsive need to touch something. Then he will very, very carefully do so. In one of his books he describes his mother and elementary school teacher bonding over his oddities, describing him with his tongue between his teeth, inching his finger forward until it touches a book. Or taking his shoe off and touching the heel to his forehead. Or touching someone on the back of the head.
In college, Sedaris discovered the joy of cigarettes. Not only is nicotine addictive, but cigarettes defused his OCD. Whenever he felt a compulsion he'd just light up and ahhhhhh.... no more compulsion. Plane rides became torturous for him because... imagine you're sitting in 14f and you just have to touch the back of the head of the fat guy sitting in front and to your left... and you know the only way you're not going to be in an incredibly mortifying situation is if you light up... but you CAN'T because you're on an AIRPLANE.
So I can understand Hanners smoking. It totally chills her out.
JoeMoron2000:
I have a symmetrical form of OCD, not the cleaning form...
When I do things, they need to be even. It's not that it has to be, but it nags me until I make them even. For example, I've hit the spacebar like 50 times with my left thumb so far this post, and I need to press the spacebar that many times with my right thumb in order to feel right. Whenever I touch something with one hand, I try and have the same part of my other hand touch something else.
When I scratch my itchy beard-thing, I have to scratch on both sides simultaneously and symmetrically or else I slowly start twitching.
When walking home from school, I try to take exactly 2 steps on every square -- 1 with my left foot, 1 with my right foot. I try never to step on the lines between them, but if I do, I have to do the same with the other foot.
I always thought I was just insane (well...more insane than I actually am) until I read this thread. I'm not alone!
Alphalpha:
I guess everyone has obsessive (or compulsive) quirks. One of my friends, once reaching the bottom of a glass, will refuese to drink the last bit. She doesn't even know why, she just finds it, for want of a better word, icky.
Myself, I'm nowhere near OCD either, but I do have a slight thing with symettry, particularly with my jaw or my arms. My top and bottom teeth don't quite fit together at the back which really annoys me, and if I notice a particularly thick hair on my arm I have to pull it out because it doesn't look right. I also like to line up things with straight sides against the side of the table. Sometimes I'll do it with glasses too, using my finger as a kind of T-square to make sure it's right up against the edge.
Book series and DVD boxsets in particular have to be in the right order, although I like to alphabetise individual things too. Recently I alphabetised my DVD collection for the first time and it felt great, hehe.
I also have a thing about the toilet. If I'm going on a journey of half an hour or more I pretty much always have to go to the toilet beforehand, because there's no toilets in a car or a bus, and what if I have to go while we're driving? It's almost the same with trains - they do have toilets on them but what if I'm in there and I miss my stop?
I'm not really a clean-freak but I do like the kitchen to be in order. I have to stack up plates and saucepans etc. next to the sink if they've been used then left. Also the kitchen cupboard in our house will invariably end up how I like it because it just looks messy to me otherwise.
See what I mean. Everyone has quirks.
In other news: Hanners is really cool. I'm not really up on the ins and outs of OCD but by all accounts Jeph has a provided in Hanners a pretty realistic OCD character.
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