Thread: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Originally Posted by Carrot

Do you suffer from panic attacks or feel at a large discomfort if you don't spin your pen to 40 times consecutively? If you don't then most likely it's not OCD. I mentioned about OCPD, have you read about it? It's something rather similar. Both OCD and OCPD has a need for order.

It'll piss me off like hell if I get to 30 something and then it drops. Start again. Once I start though... I am finishing it. The good thing is that the very nature of this has allowed me to spin a pen 40 times without fail -- just have to get used to the weight distribution after a few tries.

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

It'll piss me off like hell if I get to 30 something and then it drops. Start again. Once I start though... I am finishing it. The good thing is that the very nature of this has allowed me to spin a pen 40 times without fail -- just have to get used to the weight distribution after a few tries.

Getting angry at something when you're so close to success is a normal human reaction. But after what you had said in your previous post, my guess is still it's not OCD. I have no valid reasons for my obsessions, unlike yours where you are using it to train yourself to practice.