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Evil_Lathander:
Is what Stephen Fry has also an OCD?

keltic:
OCD:

i have ocd.

mine were odd.  my obessions were related to religion/morals/spirituality and to bodily thinness.  my compulsions were "obeying the voice of god" and having to change my clothes and adjust them because they felt too tight..to loose..to tight..to loose.

at first, OCD took just a few mimnutes out of my life. and just a little happiness. eventually, it took DAYS aways and i was always miserable.

hooray for drugs! and therapy!


antientropy is rights. OC happens alot. OCD...the DISORDER, is when one's obessions and compulsions start to fuck up your life.

if you *enjoy* making up your bed perfectly, and it takes 10 minutes..so what? no OCD.
if you *hate* having to do it, it might be OCD>


someone said smart people are more prone to O and C. maybe.  but I would say mentally disabled people are very C prone.

as for what part of the brain OCD  is from...they think it is  It has been theorized that a miscommunication between the orbital-frontal cortex, the caudate nucleus, and the thalamus may be a factor in the explanation of OCD. The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is the first part of the brain to notice whether or not something is amiss. When the OFC notices that something is wrong, it sends an initial ?worry signal? to the thalamus. When the thalamus receives this signal, it in turn sends signals back to the OFC to interpret the worrying event. The caudate nucleus lies between the OFC and the thalamus and it prevents the initial worry signal from being sent back to the thalamus after it has already been received. However, it is suggested that in those with OCD, the caudate nucleus does not function properly, and therefore does not prevent this initial signal from recurring. This causes the thalamus to become hyperactive and creates a virtually never-ending loop of worry signals being sent back and forth between the OFC and the thalamus. The OFC responds by increasing anxiety and engaging in compulsive behaviors in an attempt to relieve this apprehension.[2]

Dasota:
I have quite a few OC's quirks.

When I was little, I always had to rearrange the candy at the cash registers. Like if there was a box of say gum, I had to make sure there was a flat layer of the packages of gum, and then line them up from right to left. Also, there was a bait shop my dad used to go to, and he had a box that had various candy bars and such and I would always arrange the box with the candy bars along the back and stacked up one on top of each other and then the gum packs in front of it with them on top of each other as well, so long as they were the same size.

Whenever I am at a social gathering where a lot of drinks in cans are being consumed, I have to make a pyramind, and if doesn't make a pyramind (ie, I can make one, but have some left over I then have to drink/gather more cans to finish it)

And in high school, I used to freak the hell out if the regulars who sat at our lunch table switched seats. everyone had to sit in an "assigned" seat.

I too have to avoid the lines and cracks in the sidewalk, but I also try to calculate how big my steps are based on how many steps it takes me to cover say 10 of the sidewalk blocks.

My bed has to be acrossed from my door, yet I sleep with my back to the door. And whenever I sleep at someone else's house and am in a guest bedroom or whatever, the door has to be shut, whether I'm in there on not. It bothers me quite a bit when I've gone to bed at a friend's house and the door was opened, which has happened quite a number of times.

I guess that's it for me. But yeah, i don't see it as quite a disorder, except the whole seat thing in high school, but I'm out of high school and it doesn't affect me anymore.

keltic:
drug companies want everyone to be ill.

good doctors dont


only 1% of people are bipolar by conservative estimates.

highest is still less than 4%. my quess: 2% have some sort of bipolar.

why does it seem like "so many"

1) false diagnosis, esp in youth.
2)  2% means 6 million bipolar.

what does number 2 mean?

well, there are only 3  million mormons in america.
and only 3 million jews.

so think about how many mormons and jews you have seen. they even have buildings!  so, when you think of bipolar remember that.

i have about 28 relatives..none are bipolar. i do have a step cousin who is bipolar..if i include step cousins, i have about 40 realtives.

and remember it runs in families.  so does OCD.

pyschology today reports that 50% of all marriages fail. and 90% of marriages with one bipolar do. wow.

. Brian .:
Wait wait wait wait. LEt me get this straight. Locking and unlocking the door three times is a sign of OCD? ...I do that a lot. Does this mean I am OCD, ADD, or just bored?

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