[Closed] Your mild OCD

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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?