obsessive compulsive disorder?

[ductapemyheartt]

i thought this would be an interesting thread. sorry to the mods if it is not in the right place...or whatevs.

but, yes, i have ocd.
anyone else?
what's yours like?

 

[MACATTAK]

I'm not diagnosed with OCD or anything, so I don't know if what I do is quirkiness or OCD..I constantly recheck things....I will recheck my 2 set alarm clocks many times each before I believe that I set them to the right time. I have to recount my money a zillion times & if I am doing a project/test, I have to recheck everything I have already done. I count stairs as I walk up them. I also have some hoarding issues, not junk, but lots of makeup..I know lots of people have makeup addictions on this site, but yeah...probably more than even I want to admit.

 

[ductapemyheartt]

i suppose i should say what mine is...

at school, we have to go to mass [i know, right? catholic school] and if i did not sit in the exact same place every time, i would start having really bad thoughts and think i was going to throw up or pass and would have to leave or i would have a panic attack.

another thing, my bookshelf. the books go from tallest to shortest. always. everything in my room goes from tallest to shortest and all of the their labels are facing outward. if they are all the same height, i put them in alphabetical order.

something that is really bugging me lately is that we just moved into a new [older] house. the light switch plates are not white! they are that creamy colour. my room is entirely black and white and it is driving me insane that they are not white. i cried the first day i was there. and i refuse to touch the walls of the showers. even though they have been disinfected and disinfected, they just do not look clean to me.

germsssss.

 

[Another Janice!]

Ugh. Yes I have it. It controls my life.

I hoard. I constantly add and subtract numbers in my head. Everything I do has to be done in a specific order, everytime....from showering to teeth brushing to getting dressed to vacuuming to dishes to laundry to driving. Any variation and I go into a mild panic attack. If my mom comes over here to help with something and she doesn't do it the right way, I have to do it all over again.

My kids toys have to be in a certain box designated for that toy. The better part of my days are spent redoing what they undone...lol.

I also have trichotillomania.

WHooo hooo!! I am a basket case!

 

[MACATTAK]

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Everything I do has to be done in a specific order, everytime

I hear that! I'm good as long as my schedule is set, but when things change, it makes me very uncomfortable/uneasy.

 

[giz2000]

I don't have OCD, but the girl that lived in our house before we moved in here did. She apparently broke up with her boyfriend, and left the house without taking her things. We helped the boyfriend pack up her stuff so we could move them out. Apparently, she would buy clothes and shoes (and not cheap stuff either...gucci, prada, Manolos, etc) and wear everything exactly one time. She had at least 200 shoe boxes with once-worn shoes....she had 20 pair of Puma sneakers..all worn once...and she couldn't get rid of them either. she had to keep them. She had rolling racks with clothes, some of them with the tags still on them...hundreds of dresses, pants, at least 100 pair of jeans. It was the craziest thing I had ever seen. No wonder her boyfriend (super wealthy boy..he used to drive a Mercedes..now he drives a Maserati, oh and he had bought her a Mercedes too) broke up with her...she was sucking him dry! She was also a clean freak (in the utility room, we found 20 mops...yes, 20)...and she had every household cleaner known to man...all in citrus scent.

 

[GreekChick]

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Originally Posted by giz2000 I don't have OCD, but the girl that lived in our house before we moved in here did. She apparently broke up with her boyfriend, and left the house without taking her things. We helped the boyfriend pack up her stuff so we could move them out. Apparently, she would buy clothes and shoes (and not cheap stuff either...gucci, prada, Manolos, etc) and wear everything exactly one time. She had at least 200 shoe boxes with once-worn shoes....she had 20 pair of Puma sneakers..all worn once...and she couldn't get rid of them either. she had to keep them. She had rolling racks with clothes, some of them with the tags still on them...hundreds of dresses, pants, at least 100 pair of jeans. It was the craziest thing I had ever seen. No wonder her boyfriend (super wealthy boy..now he drives a Maserati) broke up her...she was sucking him dry! She was also a clean freak (in the utility room, we found 20 mops...yes, 20)...and she had every household cleaner known to man...all in citrus scent.

Wow, she sounds like one of those fashion victims that hate being seen wearing an outfit twice (close to what celebrities do).

 

[MACATTAK]

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Originally Posted by giz2000 I don't have OCD, but the girl that lived in our house before we moved in here did. She apparently broke up with her boyfriend, and left the house without taking her things. We helped the boyfriend pack up her stuff so we could move them out. Apparently, she would buy clothes and shoes (and not cheap stuff either...gucci, prada, Manolos, etc) and wear everything exactly one time. She had at least 200 shoe boxes with once-worn shoes....she had 20 pair of Puma sneakers..all worn once...and she couldn't get rid of them either. she had to keep them. She had rolling racks with clothes, some of them with the tags still on them...hundreds of dresses, pants, at least 100 pair of jeans. It was the craziest thing I had ever seen. No wonder her boyfriend (super wealthy boy..now he drives a Maserati) broke up her...she was sucking him dry! She was also a clean freak (in the utility room, we found 20 mops...yes, 20)...and she had every household cleaner known to man...all in citrus scent.

Wow..that's crazy that she didn't take her stuff...so she must have had to buy a bunch of new things all over again!

 

[giz2000]

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Originally Posted by MACATTAK Wow..that's crazy that she didn't take her stuff...so she must have had to buy a bunch of new things all over again!

The story I heard from the boyfriend was that he had bought a condo and she was spending most of her time there before they broke up...so she was using this house as her closet...she had a lot more clothes and shoes in the condo!!! I also found a box from a really exclusive jewelry store...inside was a receipt for a $50,000 Rolex...bought by her with HIS credit card...it was his Christmas present...I forgot to mention the boxes with thousands of receipts..all organized by store. I swear she would get through an IRS audit with flying colors!

 

[luckyme]

I have OCD and at some points in my life it has been completely debilitating. I am now on 40 mg paxil and it has not been a cure but it takes the edge off so I dont think about stuff all day, like my house is going to burn down and etc.

 

[thestarsfall]

My friend told me a story of one of the ppl in the group home she had worked at (it was for ppl with psychiatric problems etc.) The girl hoarded things and had them in stacks in her room, stuff like puzzles and stuff and you weren't allowed to touch them or she would freak out. And she would turn off the lights when she went into a room and turn them on as she exited.

I really feel sorry for people with OCD, esp those who can't/don't get help. It must be hard.

However, in the trend that is life, there are always ppl that I find (usually on the internet) who all claim to have OCD (or other psychiatric disorders) when really they don't. Like they will be like "I like to have everything nice and neat and I hate dirty things...I have OCD"...and I am like..."uh....OCD isn't just the actions ya know..."

 

[MACATTAK]

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However, in the trend that is life, there are always ppl that I find (usually on the internet) who all claim to have OCD (or other psychiatric disorders) when really they don't. Like they will be like "I like to have everything nice and neat and I hate dirty things...I have OCD"...and I am like..."uh....OCD isn't just the actions ya know..."

I think that unless you are diagnosed with it by a doctor, it would be hard to say whether it is OCD, or quirkiness, which everyone has their own things that set them off. I think that when it starts taking over your life and thoughts, that's when it may be leaning more toward the OCD, but again, only a doctor can tell you that for sure.

 

[ductapemyheartt]

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Originally Posted by MACATTAK I think that unless you are diagnosed with it by a doctor, it would be hard to say whether it is OCD, or quirkiness, which everyone has their own things that set them off. I think that when it starts taking over your life and thoughts, that's when it may be leaning more toward the OCD, but again, only a doctor can tell you that for sure.

agreed. i hate how people like to diagnose themselves with things just to get attention. it makes me go[ing] bananas!

 

[dollbabybex]

my ex boyfriend had it!

itd drive me mad...he couldnt just turn the light of and go to bed...he'd have to flick it on and off 5 times...

couldnt lock the front door...he'd push the door five times...

just LOADS of stuff like that...mad routines!

hed phone me in work...and say 'bex have i closed all the windows??' (we lived on a 11th floor apartment...it didnt matter!)

and id have to say yes regardless of knowing...otherwise his day would be ruined!

i asked him why he has to do this...and he said he gets really horrible thoughts...like if you dont do that 2 more times your mum will die'

crazy!

 

[MACATTAK]

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Originally Posted by dollbabybex my ex boyfriend had it! itd drive me mad...he couldnt just turn the light of and go to bed...he'd have to flick it on and off 5 times... couldnt lock the front door...he'd push the door five times... just LOADS of stuff like that...mad routines! hed phone me in work...and say 'bex have i closed all the windows??' (we lived on a 11th floor apartment...it didnt matter!) and id have to say yes regardless of knowing...otherwise his day would be ruined! i asked him why he has to do this...and he said he gets really horrible thoughts...like if you dont do that 2 more times your mum will die' crazy!

There was an episode almost exactly like this on MTV....a girl thought her mom would die if she didn't do all these rituals.

 

[tsukiyomi]

To the OP, I'm sorry that you have to live with a terrible mental disorder.

I know that real OCD does exist but I am so sick of seeing people on the internet that think it's cool to say you have a mental disorder. I am in no way saying that that's what the OP is saying. It's just that real mental disorders are horrible to live with and when you have everyone and their brother that want attention, so they lie about being mentally ill, it bugs the crap out of me. Seeing as two people in my family are genuinely ill and it's very sad.

I get offended by it.

 

[Shimmer]

My exhusband is OCD (officially).
Good Lord what a pain in the ass to deal with.
It was fun, tho, to mess with him about it sometimes...either by moving flatware or turning a can in the pantry or putting a pink sugar in with the white.

 

[luckyme]

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Originally Posted by dollbabybex my ex boyfriend had it! itd drive me mad...he couldnt just turn the light of and go to bed...he'd have to flick it on and off 5 times... couldnt lock the front door...he'd push the door five times... just LOADS of stuff like that...mad routines! hed phone me in work...and say 'bex have i closed all the windows??' (we lived on a 11th floor apartment...it didnt matter!) and id have to say yes regardless of knowing...otherwise his day would be ruined! i asked him why he has to do this...and he said he gets really horrible thoughts...like if you dont do that 2 more times your mum will die' crazy!

This sounds like my life. Everything has a number. Sometimes it takes me longer to get out of the house than the number of hours I am actually going to work.

 

[luckyme]

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Originally Posted by Shimmer My exhusband is OCD (officially). Good Lord what a pain in the ass to deal with. It was fun, tho, to mess with him about it sometimes...either by moving flatware or turning a can in the pantry or putting a pink sugar in with the white.

That is cruel! Coming from someone who was clinically diagnosed and am currently being treated, my husband would never mess with my pattern because I would probably have to call in sick to work cause when I leave the house, everything has to be just right.

 

[Shimmer]

I'm sure it was cruel...and we did it prior to him being dx'd. After that, we generally left him alone about it.
It wasn't debilitating to him in the manner that he wouldn't be able to leave the house, or to the degree that some people suffer.

That said, I know my ex. I'm not really all that sorry.