[Closed] Your mild OCD

It's sensible.

Maybe not strictly speaking "normal" though ?

(I do it too, but I'm not normal I don't think ?)

I have to squeeze my eyes tight closed for 3 seconds before hitting 'send post' on internet forums.

I have to squeeze my eyes tight closed for 3 seconds before hitting 'send post' on internet forums.

Even if you are driving? 😯

I have to cycle between the 'S' and 'L' on SLOW when it's written on the road. If I hit the paint i'm in no doubt that bad things will happen. 😆

You should see my dishwasher stacking strategy.

I have to stroke my cat just before I leave the house or else bad things will happen.

cynic-al - Member
You should see my dishwasher stacking strategy.

i can't watch my email screen while i login - have to look at a different webpage, such as STW...

if i read an email and decide to deal with it later, i can't just leave it, it has to be marked as 'unread' again until i do it.

i spend a lot of time in my email account.

Depends on the angle of the taper for the glass: alternating means you can have a more efficient square lattice, whereas all the same way up means that you can go for an asymptotically more efficient (as the taper goes to zero) triangular lattice.

I'll get my coat...

I have to stroke my cat just before I leave the house

I always turn my pants inside-out before wearing them for a 2nd day.

druidh's glaases thing sounds excellent. 😀 When we have more than 2 matching glasses in our cupboard I will be sure to try this out.

Otherwise, I have cured myself of alphabetised cd's, have misaligned tyres/valves and have been known to go several days with unequal length sideburns. 8)

All i do really is bite my nails a bit, and I get a nice feeling from hanging out the socks in matching pairs. (You can ball them on the way back into the washing basket when you take them in, see...)

Kit - Member

I always turn my pants inside-out before wearing them for a 2nd day.

I have to cycle between the 'S' and 'L' on SLOW when it's written on the road. If I hit the paint i'm in no doubt that bad things will happen.

Check the gas cooker isn't still burning before going to bed.

Just checked, it seems that the alternating glasses idea is more efficient if the ratio of upper to lower diameter of the glasses is greater than about 1.15 (2/sqrt(3)). Otherwise, the triangular lattice is more efficient.

My OCDs are tame compared to you lot! Heathens!

I merely have to always have a daysack on my back at work & it must be arranged a certain way with a minimum of 15lbs of weight in there, or else it doesn't feel right.

I count when I fill the kettle up for a brew (not out loud, that'd be mad)
2 seconds for 1 cup, 4 for 2 cups etc

I lock the garage, check it's shut fast and locked, walk away, get to the front door and turn around knowing fulll well it's shut. I then go back to check it muttering to myself how stupid I am. It's every bloody time.

Before going riding, if I've driven to my location i check the cars locked about 10 times.

Also have to check my zips are done up, even if i haven't opened them before i set off.

Before leaving the house, pat the pockets. Keys, wallet, phone. Phone left pocket, keys and wallet right pocket.

Could type more, but won't...

Actually most of the ocd'sso far are pretty sensible if a tiny bit miserly. But I would call it 'zen' not miserly. 😀

Porfessional hat briefly on: proper OCD is either illogical task that MUST be done (must turn anticlockwise twise before leaving a room), or illogical and catastrophic consequences to omitting a 'normalish' check or cleaning task (an earthquake will destroy the phillipines if you leave the shed unlocked. Contrary to the stereotype, some ocd sufferers live in relative uncleanliness because normal household tasks fall by the wayside in favour of the specific ones, for example carpet is hoovered six times a day but ketchup stains on trousers all week.

If I start picking a bogey.. I [i]have[/i] to produce something.. and I [i]always[/i] roll the produce before flicking it at my spouse/nearest child/mum/pet/neighbour

If I start picking a bogey.. I have to produce something.. and I always roll the produce before flicking it at my spouse/nearest child/mum/pet/neighbour

😆

Always lay out clothes on bed before getting dressed. Even I'm annoyed by it, can't seem to stop though 🙄

I feel rather shocked and quite frankly offended by people's attitude to this disorder! This illness is far more than washing hands all the time and checking doors are locked! For crying out loud people! This mental illness comes in different forms and too many people are ignorant to it. 👿 It is not a joke to the sufferer! I for one cannot go out riding my bike if I haven't got the correct pressure in my tyres, but I wouldnt say I'm an OCD sufferer, this condition can be self torture for the sufferer with an over active mind.

Only use black pens, or occasionally red....

All my spice jars are in alphabetical order, so that I can find them quickly when I'm cooking.

I think I have CDO. It's like OCD, but with ALL THE LETTERS IN THE RIGHT ORDER.

I feel rather shocked and quite frankly offended by people's attitude to this disorder

mate.. that's your prerogative..

aren't you the guy who was offended by the laddish banter on the friendly northerner videos..?

if we took everything seriously all the time and treated subjects with the gravity they deserve then we'd all be locked alone in darkened rooms rocking and screaming and rending the flesh from our bodies with our own bare hands..

if you don't laugh you cry and all that.. laughter is the best medicine..
I've suffered with mental illness most of my adult life and I'm mildly offended by your seizing the moral high ground if I'm perfectly honest..

aren't you the [s]guy[/s] troll/second(or so) login who was offended by the laddish banter on the friendly northerner videos..?

I always put my left sock on before the other one.

aren't you the guy troll/second(or so) login

aaaaaaaaaaah.. 😳

My wife could give you a whole raft of weird stuff I do, but here's an easy one and I bet I'm not the only one to do it.

Volume on TV, radio, etc. must be set to an even number.

I repeatedly shave the same spot of my face, over and over again in different directions. Even when it feels baby smooth, I panic that there's huge hairs sticking out and I have to make sure.

The worst place for me is under my eyes, or you know, the closest that face hairs grow to under my eyes. The other one is under my bottom lip.

I'll often finish my shave, and then go back and have another pass over my face in the dry nefore I leave the house. I also have another razor in work because certainly when I cycle in, I get the same feeling like I've missed something.

[quote=Someone's Second Log in Name]I feel rather shocked and quite frankly offended

Legendary sleeper Troll.

Getting a bit obvious now though, time for a new one ?

I try not to step on cracks

I have to attempt to pee before lights out

I cannot drink tea unless inside of mug is white

My cutlery goes into certain parts of the drying rack and a certain way up. Knives in one bit, forks in another, etc. Is that just tidy or is it OCD? I suspect OCD cos it annoys me irrationally if someone else has done the washing up and put the cutlery in random places on the drying rack...

If there's something opposite to OCD then I think I have that instead. The wife on the other hand, barking!

Checks every lock 5 times before bed, spends ages leaning against fridge door to make sure it's shut, switches of the sockets that are already switched off with nothing in them. I regularly have to fetch her from outside or she'd be out all day checking her car is locked...the list goes on.

Volume on TV, radio, etc. must be set to an even number.

I feel rather shocked and quite frankly offended that on the day that Jim Marshall's death was announced somebody is so insensitive.

ALL amps must be set to 11.

Druidh

Don't bother about it ,we are all somewhere on the additional support needs scale 🙂

OCD is the least of your worries 😉

....this condition can be self torture for the sufferer with an over active mind.

Exactly. As someone who has a horribly overactive mind, I find the whole experience of using public lavatories without touching doorhandles, toilet seats, and the flushing mechanism, totally torturous. I end up kicking the door, pissing on the seat, and not flushing 😐

At work, I [b]always[/b] have to take the "racing line" and drift out to the far left when exiting the corner of a right-hander leaving the factory floor heading for the warehouse.

This is on foot.

I still do it even if someone is walking with me.

Obviously have to adjust speed and line depending on weather and "tyre" conditions.

Clip keys in to my camelback, get out the door and before closing it, take off camelback to check I've clipped my keys in.

I gave up pairing my socks some years ago so every morning just grab a random pair from the bottom drawer. All good, but in the rare situation where a matching pair come out at random, one of them goes back and I try again.

"The "Pure-O" is manifested by a two-part process: the originating unwanted thought (spike) and the mental activity which attempts to escape, solve, or undo the spike, called rumination. The following are examples of varieties of spikes:
A man is involved in sexual relations with his female lover. Just prior to orgasm, the thought of his friend Bob pops into his head. This is the fourth time in a month that this has happened. In response to this, he becomes very upset and wonders whether he is gay. He terminates sexual activity in order to avoid having to deal with this concern.
A mother is changing the diapers of her infant. As she lovingly looks down at the helpless child, the thought occurs to her to take a pillow and smother the child. In response to this thought, the mother panics and runs to another room to diminish the possibility of acting on this thought, assuming that the capacity to think such thoughts may be similar to acting on them."

This is just an example of some of the ways the mind "argues" with itself through this torturers disorder.
A sufferer feels like a prisoner in his own mind and struggles through life in silence through it all, and should certainly NOT be confused with what a lot of you small minded people think it is. 🙄

...yes and all the above sound exactly like a MILD form of what you describe.

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As I age and feel like i have less time to let things slide, I've definitely become more obsessed with irrational detail. And I become annoyed at everyone for not complying with my unspecified, unarticulated rules.

Examples are differentiating between large and small forks in the cutlery drawer (to the extent I'm now going to build a new drawer liner to separate each category of cutlery).

Or the fact that my desk has nothing on it except phone, keyboard, laptop dock and screen. Wen I work only a notebook, pen(s) I'm using and minor paperwork are permitted.

I'm aware that real OCD is grim - my friend's wife is a sufferer, and "suffer" is the word. Cleanliness and tidiness are the mild manifestations - hers are repetitive, obsessional ought based on events that haven't happened. Not nice.

steve_b77 - Member

I always put my left sock on before the other one.

If everybody didn't have a little bit of OCD in them, life would be boring. A smart person who feels they aren't in total control might look into dietary change, omitting caffeine and gluten.

5's, everything in 5's. Cars, gates, lampposts. Till my brain circuitry got snaffu'd and then things became relatively silent. Lost my extraordinary patience at the same time though.

When I adjust the volume on anything that uses numbers as a metric for volume I can only adjust in increments that are multiples of 5 😐

All notes in my wallet must all be facing the same direction (Queen facing forward) and be in sequential order with the fiver at the front.

All notes in my wallet must all be facing the same direction (Queen facing forward) and be in sequential order with the fiver at the front.

All notes in my wallet must all be facing the same direction (Queen facing forward) and be in sequential order with the fiver at the front.
That's a given

That's reassuring!

That's a given

Yup. Unless you are an unpatriotic scruffy workshy shirker with no respect, Her Majesty's face should always face away from your arse when in your wallet.

The things you are describing are so far from the reality of real OCD.

A a long term sufferer who's life was ruined for years by this spiteful illness, i could tell you some pretty horrific tales of the mess sufferers get themselves into coping with and fighting these illogical compulsions.

But hey, it's the MENTAL ILLNESS it's ok to take the piss out of, so carry on lads.

Please visit http://www.ocduk.org/ocd read some of the facts and see if it still sounds funny.

Don't want to rant or upset people, but need to raise awareness. Funding for treatment is poor and the longer this is seen as a joke the longer this will continue.

Thanks

Don't recognise any of this type of behaviour. I must be weird.

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[i]should certainly NOT be confused with what a lot of you small minded people think it is. [/i]

[i]But hey, it's the MENTAL ILLNESS it's ok to take the piss out of, so carry on lads.[/i]

Oh, FFS lighten up 🙄

I think that most of are more than capable of understanding the difference between a bit of a routine and an actual mental disorder.

Get a sense of humour, they're nice....

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OCD IS a serious mental illness, and in many cases nothing to do with routines.
I heve no desire to ask you to stop talking of your routines, just please don't label them as OCD.

"The key difference that segregates little quirks, often referred to by people as being ‘a bit OCD’, from the actual disorder is when the distressing and unwanted experience of obsessions and compulsions impacts to a significant level upon a person’s everyday functioning – this represents a principal component in the clinical diagnosis of Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder."

"In fact, it can be so debilitating and disabling that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has actually ranked OCD in the top ten of the most disabling illnesses of any kind, in terms of lost earnings and diminished quality of life." OCD_UK website.

p.s. as for my sense of humour, it's very much intact thankyou.

[i]p.s. as for my sense of humour, it's very much intact thankyou.[/i]

it's just very very small, right? There's no need to be embarrassed. 😉

I have just been accused of not having a sense of humour for not laughing at an illness that ruined my life for years. Hilarious 😀

Is taking an analytical attitude towards people's behaviour and attitudes on a bike/chat forum a form of OCD ?

No, but if it helps this subject hit all the right buttons with me at the wrong time 🙂

I like things neat and in proper arrangement. I will have to square things up so they are parallel with edges and stuff like that. My mother is fastidiously tidy. You only have to look at your parents to know where your ******-up behaviour comes from! Philip Larkin wrote a good poem about it.

What makes you depressed rusty trowel ? For me it's family commitments clashing with pre-arranged bike rides......happens way too often.

But tell me that depression is a serious mental illness because I obviously don't understand that.

I wouldn't know ernie, i don't suffer from depression. I've been a bit tied up fighting my own illness the last 10 years to look too deeply into anyone elses 😕

The family/riding thing gets on my tits sometimes, but to say it depresses me would be a lie.

Anyway, i'm off out for a rid.....to a family farm! 🙂

I wouldn't know ernie, i don't suffer from depression.

That must come as a relief to people who know you. Presumably they can say stuff like "Oh look, it's raining again - how depressing" without getting a lecture from you about the seriousness of depression as a mental illness.

Christ - are there a few hangovers on here this morning?