Thread: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

It could if you felt a lot of stress, and felt like something really bad would happen if you didn't. Though not if you just enjoyed it.

People don't really realize it but pretty much everyone suffers from multiple mental disorders,especially the stress disorders. The vast majority of which are never diagnosed because they are fairly minor. Generally, if it doesn't interfere with your life then its not a big deal. So its possible for people to go around with a disorder like OCD and never notice, or even play it off as something else.

Originally Posted by Alric

People don't really realize it but pretty much everyone suffers from multiple mental disorders,especially the stress disorders. The vast majority of which are never diagnosed because they are fairly minor. Generally, if it doesn't interfere with your life then its not a big deal. So its possible for people to go around with a disorder like OCD and never notice, or even play it off as something else.

Actually most mental disorders have as a diagnostic criteria that they must interfere with your normal life, precisely because they're extreme cases of something normal. Therefore this isn't strictly true.

That might be true but you still have the disorder. It isn't like if you suddenly go above a certain line you develop the disorder and if you fall below it you are cured. The diagnostic criteria is just used to help identify issues, and to identify how serious it is.

From my experience, the vast majority of posters in this thread are normal human beings.




Cept you, omnis.

^ He has it.

Today in the morning i thrown a candy to the table and i didn't go to fix it's position.

Originally Posted by littlezoe

Today in the morning i thrown a candy to the table and i didn't go to fix it's position.

Here's a challenge for tomorow, put on a t-shirt wrong and wear it all morning. Pass this test and you will be cured of your OCD.

Originally Posted by dutchraptor

Here's a challenge for tomorow, put on a t-shirt wrong and wear it all morning. Pass this test and you will be cured of your OCD.

Originally Posted by robstar

Here's a challenge for tomorow, put on your a t-shirt pants wrong and wear them it all morning. Pass this test and you will be cured of your OCD.

Originally Posted by dutchraptor

Here's a challenge for tomorow, put on a t-shirt wrong and wear it all morning. Pass this test and you will be cured of your OCD.

Lol... that wouldn't bother me other than being less comfortable that way =P

I had OCD as a child.

My main compulsion was to organize everything by shape, size, color, etc. Everything had to be in it's proper place when I was done with it. If my mom ever took me to a toy store, I would organize the entire toy section and would get extremely upset if we left before I was done. If people touched my things, especially if they moved them around, I would go ballistic and have a panic attack-- screaming, crying, hyperventilating, followed by throwing everything in my room on the floor before I started to reorganize everything all over again. I was treated for OCD at a young age and was thought to have "grown out of it" but I see now that it persisted until my early teens. Since my parents didn't understand my compulsions, they would continuously disrupt the order of things in my room, the cabinets (The dishes had to be in a certain order), the pantry and fridge (labels had to face outward, there was a specific place for everything). Anyway, I had constant anxiety attacks over these kinds of things until finally, I snapped, and order stopped bothering me so much.

I still have a few remnants of OCD left over from that time period, but I am no longer compulsive. I do not have anxiety attacks if my obsessions are not fulfilled. I still have pet peeves about organization and people touching my things, but it is not nearly as extreme. I also still eat the food on my plate one type at a time (ex. chicken first, then peas, then potatoes-- never mixed), but this is mostly from habit than anything.The only obsession that still shakes me sometimes is a fixation I have on small mistakes I've made in the past. I'll go over these mistakes in my head over and over, and only jerking my legs can make me stop. I also sometimes check things 3, 4 times. I'm never sure of myself.

Thankfully, I'm no longer obsessive-compulsive. Now, I'm just quirky like everyone else.

If I dont satisfy my compulsions I get a metalic taste in my mouth and the longer I resist the compulsion, the more cognitive dissonance I experience. This usually manifests as growing anxiety throughout the day. Exercise is a big help for me personally.
Obsessions, for sure...long story...

Had PANDAS as a kid. It's a disorder producing symptoms of OCD, but after getting strep throat. I became religion-conscious, and feared hell and sins. It was the first time I ever opened a bible. I was scared of death to a ridiculous extreme (I even avoided videogames, as my mom told me they cause seizures). Handwashing, and keeping those mitts sanitary (along with anything that went into my mouth, food, water, and silverware) was the main compulsion. I would spend time trying to calculate my chances of contracting an illness from the (already e-coli contaminated) meat my mother would serve. At school lunch, I would eat my sandwich and chips using the bag to pick up the food, because I thought my fingers too dirty. I would pray nightly (I would pray to take my parents pains away, to let me feel it instead. I would also give thanks.). Along with that, I'd tap my fingers such that each finger got the same number of taps, and my feet would each step on an equal number of cracks. I lost 10 pounds in a week off of my overweight child frame from my food pickiness, which freaked mom out.

I thought about why my obsessions bothered me. I had 'done' the calculations, and recognized that my chances of dying from a dirt-or-food-borne illness were slim to none, so why was I worried? I figured it must have been that I thought my thoughts were having some effect on the external world. So I decided to fight this mystical thinking with mystical thinking, since rationality could not reach me. I took a glass of water, and declared to myself something along the lines of, "This glass is imbued with healthy thoughts, and will make my thoughts healthy. The effects will travel forward in time, for the rest of my life, and backward in time, for all the strange and dark thoughts I've had in the past. It will prevent any of my thoughts from having a negative effect on my mind or health." I drank the water, and remembered its power during future obsessions. It was a modified Pascal's Wager: if it really did 'undo' thoughts, it would help me. If it didn't do anything, well, that means the obsessions didn't have any true power to begin with. Eventually, the obsessions went away completely...

My lastest annoyances:
I found a really good composer of songs, downloaded 14 albums of theirs and i can't download the 15th one, because it's in .flac format and the others i downloaded are all in .mp3... sigh... If i won't be able to find that album in mp3, then i will need to delete all of their albums as i don't have a single .flac file on my computer and even if i would download all 15 albums in .flac, that would annoy me. I think this goes a little far, but i can't really help it :S

The other one is that i found a bookmark at home and used that for the book i'm reading currently, but i used scissors to cut off the top of the bookmark because there was a stupid face on it. But i cut it wrong and it wasn't straight anymore. I cut it more and more trying to get it straight, but i got more and more annoyed as i couldn't cut it perfectly. I thrown it away.

I will buy a bookmark that i actually fully like from a shop next time i go to the city, because if i start cutting this will end the same way :/

Originally Posted by littlezoe

My lastest annoyances:
I found a really good composer of songs, downloaded 14 albums of theirs and i can't download the 15th one, because it's in .flac format and the others i downloaded are all in .mp3... sigh... If i won't be able to find that album in mp3, then i will need to delete all of their albums as i don't have a single .flac file on my computer and even if i would download all 15 albums in .flac, that would annoy me. I think this goes a little far, but i can't really help it :S

You're welcome.

Originally Posted by Abra

You're welcome.

Yess! You saved my life xD


How did i not think of that...? Hmm...

Here's a recent comic on marriedtothesea that is tangentially related to this thread:

Time to revive this thread, how is everyone coping with their OCD?

I think mine is generally better although there are still times when it drives me mad with rechecking when I clearly know there's no problems. I think I'm subsiding a little on arranging things. But it's still too early to say.

My obsessive compulsive disorder is extremely annoying. First, I am uncomfortable using most acronyms and using the shorter versions of words, usually. I am comfortable saying "mods" instead of "modifications" but sometimes I just prefer the longer way. Whenever I touch something with one body part, I have to touch it in the same spot, with the same pressure, with the same object, on the opposite body part. For example, if I bump into the wall with my right arm, I would have to bump into the wall with my left arm. Otherwise, I feel unbalanced, and it still feels like I'm touching the object I touched. If I spin around, or spin a part of my body, I have to spin it the opposite direction or I "feel tangled up". This mainly goes for spinning my arms in a circle, and spinning my whole body around. If I place something down, I have to be 100% sure there is no crumbs or anything under it. I would do this by placing it down, picking it back up, wiping the bottom of it with my hand, and placing it back down, seeing if I feel anything under it. Refrigerator doors. If I open one refrigerator door, I must open the other one for the same amount of time, and I must swing it to the same spot. Also, when I close the doors, I must close them both at the same time at the same speed. Buying things. Whenever I want to buy something, I really want to buy the best one of it, even if the extra features don't help me out in anyway. Having things stay symmetrical doesn't really apply to me in real life, only in video games. So let's enter the world of video games. Whenever I play Xbox 360 (by the way, I hate saying just Xbox, I say Xbox 360) I always want to be player one, unless I'm at a friends house or something. I really don't know why. In Minecraft, everything I built must be symmetrical. Every time I try to make something look "natural" I end up making everything look even. Numbers of something. Let's say I have cobblestone. I will mine more stone to get 10. I do number stuff like this if the material isn't rare and is in reach. There is probably a few more things I missed but oh well.

I don't have it, but my friend does. I must admit I was never fully educated about it until this year or so. You know how Jennifer Lawrence told Jesse Eisenberg she wanted his 'little OCD quirks'? I used to be like that a year ago. I was also going through my wannabe-scene-but-I-don't-have-the-money-phase at the time, so I don't think anyone took me seriously.

Originally Posted by mcwillis

Here is the link for the official tutorial page for EFT.

Study this page, practice the very simple tapping technique and you may find freedom from your OCD in a remarkably short time

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

From my experience, the vast majority of posters in this thread are normal human beings.

The problem seems to be "where to draw the line" ^^ Not that this is a problem only related to OCD. It seems that many mental disorders are largely influenced by our cultural perceptions, so no wonder the DSM receives so many critiques, and some disorders are overly diagnosed.