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The OCD Soapbox
spizzletrunk:
I had some very OCD tendencies as a young child that have since gone away, but others are manifested in their place. I had an obsession with mail order catalogues. I couldn't turn a page until I had come up with a feasible real-life situation in which each item for sale could be used. I was also obsessed with each of my hands and each of my feet feeling the same--once I stapled a finger by accident, had a panic attack, and stapled the other. This sort of thing has since gone away.
These days, I organize coins by date. More than one coin from that year? Alphabetized based on whether they were minted in Denver or Philadelphia. More from one mint? Organized in descending order by condition. I also often find myself muttering and swearing involuntarily in stressful situations or when recalling stressful situations.
The one tendency that has stayed with me is walking in circles around the house in a sort of pattern or course. I have this run, which goes down the hallway and around the coffee table and into the kitchen and back. I actually do it a hell of a lot. Of course, when I lived elsewhere I had different routes. . .
YAY FOR OCD!
nescience:
--- Quote from: Somethingfake ---I have an even number fixation I dont like to think about odd numbers, but I'd hardly count it as interfering with my life so whats does it make me?
--- End quote ---
A number theorist?
I dunno, am I the only person here who finds it entirely possible that the girl just smokes because she wants to smoke? I used to attend an OCD group therapy session and me and this other guy (who described himself as "severe" and of the cleaning type) would take smoke breaks all the time. It seems perfectly reasonable to me that force of habit or nicotine addiction could override any "need for cleanliness" that an OCD sufferer could have. Often, this compulsion to clean doesn't even necessarily relate to getting everything objectively CLEAN; rather, it can be a compulsion to regain order and visual appeal. Or it could be the desire to destroy every bacterium, microorganism or piece of waste in the vicinity. As an aside, smoking does tend to heighten levels of anxiety (and thus the severity of OCD symptoms), as does drinking copious amounts of coffee (as Hannelore's speculated alter-ego, Pizza Girl, does in her QC debut).
I was afflicted for about a year with obsessions, but no compulsions. I would get a random terrible thought in my head and carry it with me for months at a time. For example, I got this thought in my head that I was going to kill my roommates and I was really freaked out that I was going to do it, and I felt like I would need to convince myself not to do something that I obviously wasn't going to do. That sucked. That went nicely hand-in-hand with my panic disorder. Luckily both subsided at the beginning of 2005 (the panic disorder for the first time in years). Anxiety disorders: they're a bitch.
crazybritishsteve:
I think i may have little (but by little, i mean tiny) bit of OCD. The radio volume has to be set to an even number. 10, 12, 14 are all good. Any odd number volumes sound wrong. They make the music sound flat. I can tell just by listening to a radio if the volume is set to an even number. My girlfriend annoys me sometimes by changing the volume to an odd number, right infront of me, cuz she knows i'll have to change it.
Also, i can't sit with my back to a door. If i do that, i'm constantly looking over my shoulder. I had my work put in a new desk and computer in the server room so i could sit facing the door while working
Finally my hands have to be doing something. I can't just sit still, my hands have to be doing something.
I used to do the whole cracks on the pavement thing as a kid, but i stopped that years ago.
So yeah, what do you think? Am i OCD?
TrueNeutral:
I have minor OCD, I think. Few examples:
When I was a kid, I would sometimes open the car door when my dad was driving us somewhere simply because I couldn't resist opening it.
Glasses need to be on coasters, precisely in the middle. I'll get incredibly annoyed if someone puts it on the side of the coaster, on the table, or on anything else (I didn't speak to my brother for a day once after he put his coffee mug on my notebook).
I freak out if I have stuff under my fingernails. I will never put my hands into dirt or whatever.
When writing something in my notebook, if I make a spelling mistake or think of a better way to say it, I never cross anything out. I rewrite the entire page. Same when I'm drawing with a pencil, I'll get a new piece of paper instead of erasing. The leftovers from whats erased drive me insane.
Okay... maybe that's not so minor.
starkruzr:
I think it's really only considered OCD - disorder - if the behavior is a detriment to your life somehow.
I think we can safely say it probably detracts from Raccoon Girl's life in a variety of ways we haven't seen clearly yet.
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