[Closed] OCD... What are your compulsions then?

LOL!

... is another of my compulsions.
If I am ever banned from here and return under a new name my ... will give me away within 2 posts.

...absolutely

any of you lot do this one ? Seems like reverse OCD to me :

A mate used to ALWAYS leave one food item on his plate (1 pea, 1 chip, whatever) You couldn't make him eat it no matter how much pisstaking

(now my wife seems to have started 😯 )

scaredypants. I do that. I have no idea why

I have a mate who always leaves one ciggie in the pack! would never give it to anyone

Ooh I don't know FoxyChick..... I can hardly write a sentence without a drawn out pause. Even do it in text messages....

Thats superstition not OCD, although the two may be related.

TSF...but I can only use 3 dots...you have used 5 the first time and 4 the second!!!! 👿

8)

If I set an alarm it can't be on a normal kinda number eg 7am or 7:15 its got to be like 703 or 727.

This is the only one I recognise in me, I do it so that these numbers don't feel left out. Everyone sets their alarm for 7am, 7:30am - especially you guys it seems. I also do the same with cooking times. 20 minutes becomes 19minutes and a leisurely trip to the oven etc.

However, I have to have CDs and DVDs put into their cases facing properly up and down. Doesn't matter which way the cases fit into the drawer, but the actual disc must be properly aligned inside the box. Also doesn't matter if they shift around once I've put them away - they must start straight.

Computer folders must have capitals. Filenames must NOT have capitals.

And I laugh at my wife, and how easy it is to make her re-check things. "Are you sure you locked the door" 🙂 She also has to press the 'stop request' button on the bus as soon as it has left the previous stop, gets really agitated if she can't.

Sorry FC....... I'm all over the place with 'em. Depends on how long the ol' sausage finger rests on the keyboard.

I do the round up to a number with petrol as well. Just seems neater that way 😆

As for brown sauce in a fish finger sandwich, wtf indeed. It has to be tomato and sometimes mayo if I feel like it. Brown sauce is reserved for bacon, sausage or potato waffle sandwiches.

I remember watching a program about people with OCD and one of the girls with handwashing compulsion etc went to a CBT session where the doctor dipped a crisp in the toilet and ate it to demostrate that you don't have to worry about cleanliness so much! Made my stomach turn that did!

I do the round up to a number with petrol as well.

So do I, to the extent that diesel will be pissing on the floor but I've still rounded it up! I almost resent the 5p/litre off vouchers as they make my bank statements look messy.

Had a bit of a mad moment earlier. I need two new tubes. I have two new tyres and the bike has two wheels. Could I order two tubes? Could I? Could I?

Five tubes are in the post.

Five is my number.

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Mmmm ... I love an ellipsis ... and, yes, I punctuate text messages too !

Does anyone have the toilet paper on the inside,down the wall? Its so wrong just having it flapping there wildly,on the outside... must be neat on the wall

Im currently lining up my office spider plant leaves with the wind turbine blades in the middle distance..breeze has picked up however so my head is rotating ever quicker trying to keep up.. getting odd looks

I cannot eat a packet of crisps without folding the bag and tying it into a knot.

+ me

Fugging hell... STW needs a psychoanalysis sub-forum. "The Couch", perhaps?

Foxychick:

I cannot eat a packet of crisps without folding the bag and tying it into a knot. Tick
I add up numbers such as reg. plates, phone nos. etc. until I get to one digit. Tick
I cannot sit in a cafe, conference etc. with my back to the room.
Tick
And texts must be punctuated properly - Tick

However, this thread is very intriguing otherwise as it's made me realise how different my complusions are to most; I can't abide order and symmetry and will deliberately unstraighten things, randomly place things in the cutlery drawer, random jars - all on different shelves, and if ever I found my CDs in alphabetical order.....deep breath trying not to combust.....I'd self-combust!

Oh yes and definitely odd pairs of socks.

Has that horrified enough of you?!

A mate used to ALWAYS leave one food item on his plate (1 pea, 1 chip, whatever)

There was a time in polite English society, when leaving a bit of food on your plate like that was considered very good manners. As leaving your plate sparkling clean was considered to be glutinous, and also suggested that your host hadn't provided you with enough food.

I have no idea whether it is still the correct protocol, as I spend very little time in polite English society. None at all actually.

In many other societies, including continental ones, the opposite is true, ie, leaving food on the plate is considered very bad manners - it suggests dissatisfaction with what your host has provided. I spend a lot more time in that sort of society. And in the case of my elder sister's ridiculously large portions, I always end up having to apologise most profusely.

I remember IanB of these parts getting cashback to make his total sped at the supermarket a nice round number.

So he'd end up asking for say £19.83 cashback. The poor cashiers would get very confused... 🙂

For some reason I always stand on one leg while cleaning my teeth

There was a time in polite English society, when leaving a bit of food on your plate like that ...

I'm told that in some language (a Chinese dialect maybe?) the word for fish is very similar to the word for plenty and it's considered really rude to eat all your fish

I often imagine lines coming from corners on objects. Draw imaginary lines all over what I see and picture how they would intersect. If the lines are on the pavement I then avoid stepping on the intersecting points... Hadn't thought anything of it until I read this thread.

this is the most disturbing thread I've ever read

On the subject of fish finger butties,

I used to work with a lass who couldn't eat a chaotic chip buttie. She'd disassemble it, take all the chips out, then rebuild it with a single layer of chips going left to right, then the next layer running north-south and so on, like a big chip Jenga sandwich.

It perhaps speaks more about me that this didn't strike me as overly odd behaviour.

I used to avoid stepping on BT inspection covers (the concrete ones, often inn twos, or 3's), I kept a mental note of how many I'd stepped on and if it was an even number (two covers/drains) I would have good luck, if it was an odd number (3 drains/covers) I would have bad luck. I then decreed that it was a stupid thing to do and focused my efforts on mixing nnumerals and written numbers into my posts on here, knowing full well that the use of 2 and three in this post will fill someone with an innner torment that may even prevent them sleeping tonnight..

Whenever I make a cup of tea I start counting the number of times I stir the tea bag around in the cup, which really annoys me. So now I stir very erratically and hum a tune to myself while avoiding eye contact with the cup. 😕

I try and make words from the three letters on on number plates. The word must start with the first letter and have the next two anywhere but in the same order. I give myself an inner pat on the back for anything ten letters or above.

If I have a bunch of coins in my pocket, I'll rearrange them from largest to smallest while they're STILL in my pocket FFS. 🙂

That sounds like a cover story to me.

Just thought of another one! 😯

Sometimes, when I notice something that strikes me as significant, such as an unusual number plate, I try to keep it the front of my mind for as long as possible. It becomes like a compulsion not to forget it! Usually lasts about 10 minutes and then I suddenly realise I've been thinking about someone else!
Right must dash...got an appt. to get to!! 8)

dd...arranging coins in your pocket...hmmmm... load of bollox... 😉

I wonder who'll get the 200th post. Not that its an issue, I'm sure

I'm sorry, I can't let the fish finger butty saucing issue go...

Brown sauce, ketchup, are you all raving mad? Tartare sauce or, indeed, salad cream, bit of tomato, and cheese. Obviously.

Sheesh

I count seconds in my head: 0ne thousand and one, one thousand and two, etc...

A lot.

That sounds like a cover story to me.

dd...arranging coins in your pocket...hmmmm... load of bollox...

Guilty as charged 😳 I'm sure others think the same when I'm doing it. 😀

As a kid;
I used to eat Shreddies in even numbers, if I got one or three on the spoon I would fish around until I secured another. Then I could work out if I started with an odd or even amount.
When shopping, I would try and retrace my route (walking) from the furthest point, even if there was a quicker way back 🙂

Now;
Mirrors in the car have to be perfectly aligned.
If I scuff one shoe when walking, I will try and scuff the other one the same amount.

Stuff like bog roll orientation used to bother me but not anymore 🙂

Great post!
I have to meticulously check the ingredients of all the food I buy. Takes me AGES to go to the supermarket, my wife tries to do all the shopping!
When out riding I often have to ask my fellow riders if my backpack is zipped up as I kepp thinking I'll lose my keys/phone/money. I ahve to stop and check if I'm out solo.
I'm sure I have more, let me think...........

another one that hasn't struck me as odd but I guess may be to some. I don't like going and coming back the same way. Doesn't count for long journeys of course (or indeed where the return journey is a different time by a significant amount) but short ones like going to the petrol station, or nipping down to the supermarket, I'll try and come back by a different route.

I don't like going and coming back the same way.

I have that, but I don't think of it as a compulsion, just a desire for variety 🙂

Numbers have got to be complete.

200, and relax.

201. Freaks!

Bastid, got to wait now! 😥

Cougar:

I used to work with a lass who couldn't eat a chaotic chip buttie.

One of the funniest lines on STW for me ever!

Deadlydarcy - number plates tormented me for years. In NZ they have the same format as Library of Congress call marks. I had to classify each car that passed. Thats a Nursing car. Thats a Russian History car. Thats a Crime Fiction car.

British number plates luckily don't format with any classification system I know.

I win.

Hmm, although quite funny how come there is such a large amount of OCD afflicted people on this forum? Surely the general populus doesnt have this level of odd compulsions...

Now I feel odd for having none 😳

maxray - this is the internet... you can be anything you want to be....

I'm idly wondering if there's a corrolation between OCD and IT...

Cougar:

I used to work with a lass who couldn't eat a chaotic chip buttie.

One of the funniest lines on STW for me ever!

Cool - we aim to please. (-:

I'll have to admit that I get quite worked up about incorrect use of "fewer" and "less" in sentences. I also get very upset when people don't use apostrophes properly.

Just call me the Grammar Nazi.

Oh, and I like things in neat piles on my desk, with all the pens pointing the same way.

Had dinner with the OH last night and we talked about this thread. She told me of other OCDs I have that I'd not realised - LOL!!!!!

[i]while avoiding eye contact with the cup[/i]

🙂 amusing image !

DrRS**** - do tell... sub-concious OCD seems all the more interesting...

I almost resent the 5p/litre off vouchers as they make my bank statements look messy.

Ah see, I work this out in my head and make sure I put the right amount of fuel in so that AFTER the discount it is a nice round number! 😆