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Doubts that you've locked the door or turned off the stove.

I've forgotten to lock the door or turn off the stove/oven on numerous occasions.

Are you sure you checked all the locks before you left today? What about the stove? Oh, and I think you may have left the iron on, too.

Thanks subby, my mind is a cluster fark now.

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Headline sounds more like echolalia.

Sorry, but I instantly close any site that has advertisements that can't be muted/paused.

There's probably some handy dandy plug-ins or something to stop them, but, christ, I'd rather just not read sites that are willing to do that crap.

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The Mad Highlander: Headline sounds more like echolalia.

I was going to say stuttering...

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Exactly. Get the letters in their proper alphabetic order.

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/you have to have something wrong with you to fly a Firefly

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I'm pretty sure stuttering like a moron is not part of OCD.

I don't know if this is OCD or what, but I when I put in my contacts I always put the right one in first and when I remove them I always do the left first. That and when I eat hot dogs I always have to have the "top side" of the bun on the left.

I can't stand it when people say something like: "I have to have all my papers in order" or "I like to eat my skittles by color. I AM SOOOO OCD!!"

No, you are not. OCD is a serious condition for those afflicted, and it seriously harms their working, social and family lives.

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Richard_The_Clown: I don't know if this is OCD or what, but I when I put in my contacts I always put the right one in first and when I remove them I always do the left first. That and when I eat hot dogs I always have to have the "top side" of the bun on the left.

No, those are just "quirks." Real OCD can be debilitating.

You should never traumatize a woman sexually. I should know, I'm a medical doctor.

OCD cannot be a mental disease. Mental diseases are not communicable. But I have transmitted my OCD to my girlfriend. Before meeting me, she did not care about whether she had left the stove on or if the door was locked. Now she checks it as many times as I do. Since I have transmitted OCD to my girlfriend, it is not a mental disease. It seems more to be a philosophy, as funny as that sounds.

I have just enough OCD to be annoying...

If I allow my self, I'll wash my hands compulsively, as well as all manner of other things that drive my self and others around me batty. When I consume M&Ms they must be segregated into colour groups... My wife knows this and has taken to scattering my well organised M&M groups on my desk just to mess with me, all the while fiendishly giggling. Skittles must also be colour separated. Look, I didn't make the rules, I just follow them even though I do not understand why. Every file on my computer has a proper place and nothing must be out of order.

And then there is the symmetrical issues, like kilts. Regular kilts are knife pleated, counter clockwise, and when you walk they swing to one side one way, and to the other side a different way, and swinging two different ways drives me absolutely barmy. I can not stand it. I can't stand feeling it sometimes as I walk, and I really get peeved looking at it, and I have no idea why. Box pleated kilts fix this issue, as they have a perfectly balanced and perfectly symmetrical swing. They have a beautiful sense of geometry and remain in harmony with the universe instead of going against it in some lop-sided manner. I get this way with books too... When first opening a book it is terribly annoying that the book is heavier and thicker on one side than the other, it feels funny in your hands, drives me nutty. In the middle of the book all is well and good and the book is balanced on both sides, but then you start to get toward the end and can feel the balance slipping away with every page turned. Makes me loopy. I loathe coming to the end of a book because of this, and a bad book I am perfectly happy to quit reading in the middle, while it remains balanced. There is no point in continuing a bad book through to the end and having to deal with the annoyance of feeling the balance slide out from beneath my fingers.

And then there is Fark, is is farking lopsided, with all of the text jammed over to the left side of the screen instead of in the middle where it farking belongs. Damnit that is bloody annoying.

I also don't like looking at anything five sided, like a pentagon. Something about it just seems off somehow. Four sides are good, and six sides are fine, but the five sided thing just doesn't work out for me. I am getting the shudders right now just thinking about it. I don't much care for it at all. In fact, thinking about it really is most upsetting, I need a cup of coffee. Excuse me.

I'm actually diagnosed as having OCD, like clinically not "OMG I'm so OCD about that!" I do things like finish the last number on a phone number or address or price when I'm watching Television or listening to the radio till it gets to 10.
example: 555-1212..3..4..5..6..7..8..9..10 I'm also major league anal about everything that has multiples being evenly spaced. My big one is foreign sprays or oils on my body. I'll shower for about 45 minutes to make sure it is all off and it will send me into a panic attack.

/Cool Story bro.

You sure it's not just a stutter?

Fear of being contaminated by shaking hands or by touching objects others have touched.

I admit that I never open a public bathroom door without the paper towel I just washed my hands with, but I don't exactly think that's strange behavior.

I ALWAYS make sure I read the candy sweetheart messages and not its color every time...and I always count the tiles on the bathroom floor every time I sit on the toilet to take a dump.

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I could see a few of those possible symptoms in myself, though I do not believe it to be OCD. Nor anywhere close to affecting me. If I forget if I locked the door, I will absolutely have to go check...even it if means driving back to the house. Just things like that (did I remember the baseball bat for my kids little league practice? Better go check it...touch it...put it back where it was....check it again...etc). I have pulled over on the highway to check to make sure something I knew I put in the back of the car was there, because at that moment I have to physically touch the item.

If nothing else, it drives the wife nuts, so I enjoy it.

Submitted First With a Better Headline: Sorry, but I instantly close any site that has advertisements that can't be muted/paused.

There's probably some handy dandy plug-ins or something to stop them, but, christ, I'd rather just not read sites that are willing to do that crap.

I had a therapist once explain to me my irrational dislike of five sided geometrical shapes...

He said that five sided shapes are sexually un-fulfilling, as it suggests something is missing from balanced sexuality. A woman is a mouth, two breasts, two hips/buttocks, and a vagina. I stared at the guy completely dumbfounded for a while, and then asked him if the psychologists thinking this crap up and writing it down for other psychologists to learn have had a psych evaluation.

Seriously, where does psychology, which is some sort of science, come up with this sort of crap?

Qwigs: How to spot how how to spot spot how to spot the signs of OCD. How to spot the signs how to spot the signs of OCD. OCD.

I'm pretty sure stuttering like a moron is not part of OCD.

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Teknowaffle: I can't stand it when people say something like: "I have to have all my papers in order" or "I like to eat my skittles by color. I AM SOOOO OCD!!"

No, you are not. OCD is a serious condition for those afflicted, and it seriously harms their working, social and family lives.

This. It's one of my biggest pet peeves.

kingoomieiii: Thegreaser: I'm actually diagnosed as having OCD, like clinically not "OMG I'm so OCD about that!" I do things like finish the last number on a phone number or address or price when I'm watching Television or listening to the radio till it gets to 10.
example: 555-1212..3..4..5..6..7..8..9..10 I'm also major league anal about everything that has multiples being evenly spaced. My big one is foreign sprays or oils on my body. I'll shower for about 45 minutes to make sure it is all off and it will send me into a panic attack.

/Cool Story bro.

Your choice of handles is interesting given that last part.

Is that an open container of petroleum jelly behind you? Looks like there's... crumbs or something in it.

I should clarify that it is anything SCENTED that is a spray or oil. And yes, I do use deodorant, they make unscented brands.

Thegreaser: kingoomieiii: Thegreaser: I'm actually diagnosed as having OCD, like clinically not "OMG I'm so OCD about that!" I do things like finish the last number on a phone number or address or price when I'm watching Television or listening to the radio till it gets to 10.
example: 555-1212..3..4..5..6..7..8..9..10 I'm also major league anal about everything that has multiples being evenly spaced. My big one is foreign sprays or oils on my body. I'll shower for about 45 minutes to make sure it is all off and it will send me into a panic attack.

/Cool Story bro.

Your choice of handles is interesting given that last part.

Is that an open container of petroleum jelly behind you? Looks like there's... crumbs or something in it.

I should clarify that it is anything SCENTED that is a spray or oil. And yes, I do use deodorant, they make unscented brands.

Tea tree stuff I use is pleasant. Google Queen Helene. As an extra added bonus, it repels bugs quite well. Skeeters and such wont like you much.

I have OCD and there are somethings that suck about it and somethings that are awesome.

Every night when I go to sleep I check to see if my door is locked. It always is, I know it is, but I check it. Put the chain up. About fifteen minutes later I get up to make sure its locked. I'm sure I remember doing it, but what if I'm remembering that from LAST night and I didn't really do it tonight? So I'll check again. Depending on how stressed or depressed I am I can do this a few more times.

In the morning its similar. Lock the door as I leave. Check it. Make it to my neighbor's door, go back and check. Sometimes I'll manage to make it past, only to get to the parking lot and go back inside to check. Heck, I've driven back home to check.

I weigh myself four or five times I day. I'm not worried about being too fat or too thin. I'm worried that I'm not the right weight. And I know that weight changes from day to day and hour to hour so I have an acceptable range in my head of how much I'm allowed to change in a given time frame. But hey, I've never been at an unhealthy weight, under or over!

I eat any colored candies from coolest colors to warmest, because coolest to me seem the most unappetizing. If I'm not paying attention to actively stop it, I'll find myself counting my steps. If something is done in the wrong order I become obsessed with the idea it has been done wrong.

Oh, and doorknobs. If I touch a doorknob in a place I perceive as dirty and I don't have any hand sanitizer or I can't wash my hands, my palm will start burning. I know its just a mind thing, but I'm so focused on how gross it is that it becomes tangible.

I'm actually a pretty messy person, but I know where everything is and it isn't farking food. Its just papers and junk. Getting better about getting rid of them. "Oh but what if I need them in the future?" Chances are I can get another copy. I'd like to get over THAT before anything else.

/I'm done now
//I think
///Oh and crooked pictures, ugh
// One more after this
/ Yay symmetry!

Veteran of the Cola Wars: Thegreaser: kingoomieiii: Thegreaser: I'm actually diagnosed as having OCD, like clinically not "OMG I'm so OCD about that!" I do things like finish the last number on a phone number or address or price when I'm watching Television or listening to the radio till it gets to 10.
example: 555-1212..3..4..5..6..7..8..9..10 I'm also major league anal about everything that has multiples being evenly spaced. My big one is foreign sprays or oils on my body. I'll shower for about 45 minutes to make sure it is all off and it will send me into a panic attack.

/Cool Story bro.

Your choice of handles is interesting given that last part.

Is that an open container of petroleum jelly behind you? Looks like there's... crumbs or something in it.

I should clarify that it is anything SCENTED that is a spray or oil. And yes, I do use deodorant, they make unscented brands.

Tea tree stuff I use is pleasant. Google Queen Helene. As an extra added bonus, it repels bugs quite well. Skeeters and such wont like you much.

I googled Queen Helene once...she punched me in the sack.

Veteran of the Cola Wars: I have just enough OCD to be annoying...

I know that can be tough. I don't have OCD, but I do have ruminations, rituals and routines that Asperger's Syndrome has bestowed upon me (there's a lot of similar wiring involved with the brains of autistics and OCDers). It's been hard to work through them-- to not obsess constantly over details, to not recheck myself constantly, to not worry about the snag on my clothes or that one piece of hair that always falls the wrong way on my head. For me, it's sensory where for OCDers, it seems to be visual (correct me if I'm wrong).

Working with a therapist and finding a job I was good at have been great tools to better both my self-esteem and teach me how to move past things. Since starting SSRIs, I noticed the ruminations slowing down just a hair. Are you taking anything like Lexapro (escitalopram)?

GoddessofSnowandIce: Veteran of the Cola Wars: I have just enough OCD to be annoying...

I know that can be tough. I don't have OCD, but I do have ruminations, rituals and routines that Asperger's Syndrome has bestowed upon me (there's a lot of similar wiring involved with the brains of autistics and OCDers). It's been hard to work through them-- to not obsess constantly over details, to not recheck myself constantly, to not worry about the snag on my clothes or that one piece of hair that always falls the wrong way on my head. For me, it's sensory where for OCDers, it seems to be visual (correct me if I'm wrong).

Working with a therapist and finding a job I was good at have been great tools to better both my self-esteem and teach me how to move past things. Since starting SSRIs, I noticed the ruminations slowing down just a hair. Are you taking anything like Lexapro (escitalopram)?

I take nothing.

And yes, I had a real honest to god diagnoses of OCD. Got it when I was still a kid. Therapist explained it was the source of some of my behaviour problems.

Rawiya: I have OCD and there are somethings that suck about it and somethings that are awesome.

...OCD stuff...

/I'm done now
//I think
///Oh and crooked pictures, ugh
// One more after this
/ Yay symmetry!

Dude, you're farked up.

An "obsession" is a recurring, unwanted thought. Sometimes it is so unwanted that it is perceived as alien.

"Compulsive" behaviors are what obsessed people use to banish obsessions.

A patient may have a nagging worry that he has left his door unlocked (his obsession) which will distract him intolerably until he checks the lock (his compulsion). Checking the lock provides temporary relief. Maybe only minutes later the obsession will return in the fear that he didn't check it well enough, so back he goes. Some people can spend hours like this. It can get in the way of normal life.

It's confusing that many people use the term "obsessed" to mean something nearly opposite -- a thought that keeps returning because it is so pleasant. The man who we commonly speak of as obsessed with sex, for example (the guy whose thoughts never stray far from it because he is horny and likes women) is the opposite of the one who is clinically obsessed with sex. The latter are the extreme, merciless prudes who perceive sexual thoughts as evils that have to be continually banished, sometimes in shockingly cruel ways. Celibacy can be a reaction to sex obsession.

Some straight men are obsessed with homosexuality. These can be spotted on any sport team because they can't go 5 sentences without calling someone a "fag" or something "gay" or referring to homosexual acts with obvious disgust, and often in disturbing detail. Attacking things "gay" is their compulsion.

Veteran of the Cola Wars: I take nothing.

And yes, I had a real honest to god diagnoses of OCD. Got it when I was still a kid. Therapist explained it was the source of some of my behaviour problems.

I believe you. I have an official diagnosis (not an internet diagnosis) of Asperger's Syndrome. My kids both are on the spectrum as well and they had to have gotten it from somewhere, which is what led me to the psychologist.

Pills don't fix it, but can be a useful tool if needed. I didn't mean to sound like a pill-popping advocate. :) Neither of my kids are on pills, just educational services. Me? I've had to do a lot on my own.

Good luck with continuing your rough journey through such a disorganized, asymmetrical world.

Veteran of the Cola Wars: I have just enough OCD to be annoying...

If I allow my self, I'll wash my hands compulsively, as well as all manner of other things that drive my self and others around me batty. When I consume M&Ms they must be segregated into colour groups... My wife knows this and has taken to scattering my well organised M&M groups on my desk just to mess with me, all the while fiendishly giggling. Skittles must also be colour separated. Look, I didn't make the rules, I just follow them even though I do not understand why. Every file on my computer has a proper place and nothing must be out of order.

And then there is the symmetrical issues, like kilts. Regular kilts are knife pleated, counter clockwise, and when you walk they swing to one side one way, and to the other side a different way, and swinging two different ways drives me absolutely barmy. I can not stand it. I can't stand feeling it sometimes as I walk, and I really get peeved looking at it, and I have no idea why. Box pleated kilts fix this issue, as they have a perfectly balanced and perfectly symmetrical swing. They have a beautiful sense of geometry and remain in harmony with the universe instead of going against it in some lop-sided manner. I get this way with books too... When first opening a book it is terribly annoying that the book is heavier and thicker on one side than the other, it feels funny in your hands, drives me nutty. In the middle of the book all is well and good and the book is balanced on both sides, but then you start to get toward the end and can feel the balance slipping away with every page turned. Makes me loopy. I loathe coming to the end of a book because of this, and a bad book I am perfectly happy to quit reading in the middle, while it remains balanced. There is no point in continuing a bad book through to the end and having to deal with the annoyance of feeling the balance slide out from beneath my fingers.

And then there is Fark, is is farking lopsided, with all of the text jammed over to the left side of the screen instead of in the middle where it farking belongs. Damnit that is bloody annoying.

I also don't like looking at anything five sided, like a pentagon. Something about it just seems off somehow. Four sides are good, and six sides are fine, but the five sided thing just doesn't work out for me. I am getting the shudders right now just thinking about it. I don't much care for it at all. In fact, thinking about it really is most upsetting, I need a cup of coffee. Excuse me.

Reading most of that was like you had taken the words out of my mouth. Symmetry isn't as big of a deal with me, though and usually shapes don't bother me.

Good luck, though! Overcoming these things is a lot harder than some people seem to think it is.