OCD – good/bad/ugly

CerIs

CerIs

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My take on my own OCD

The bad:

Checking the cooker is turned off 50 times before I go to sleep every night

Sometimes staring at the cooker light for 10 minutes not believing its really turned off

Checking doors are locked constantly

Knowing that this is all in-insane in one part of my brain while the other refuses to let me stop

SEO is probably the worst job for an OCD, think stat checking on steroids. Then throw in checking rankings and you can see the problem

OCD thinking is actually much more destructive than checking because often I will repeat a negative thought for hours on end in my head because I just can’t let it go, it’s just an endless loop.

OCD people are very susceptible to depression for the above reason (scary)

The good (bet you didn’t know about this?)

When OCD people get a habit they stick to it. I’ve been going to the gym 4-5 times a week for the last 8 years and it requires no motivation or effort to go even after a long day and as such I’m quite the beefcake :). It’s funny watching work colleagues psych themselves up to go to the gym at 5:30 when it’s so easy for me. Also there’s something quite satisfying about the reps/sets involved in gym work for the OCD guy.

I recently read that OCD promotes “complex thinking” and as such is correlated with higher intelligence (open for debate). But it’s true that I can analyse a problem for lots of different angles at the same time. While this means I can think of a 100 different ways leaving that electrical appliance turned on can burn down the house I can also compute a 100 different factors quickly in my head for what Google is doing and segment them, analysing things is definitely a talent (for better or worse).


That’s all I can think of from the top of my head. Since we are in IT there’s gotta be a few fellow “checkers” here?
 


Stepping in. Have to step on the lines if I'm walking on a sidewalk. Count my tooth brushing strokes so everything is even. If I misspell something I have to delete the whole sentence and rewrite it from the beginning rather than just fixing the misspelled word.

How does OCD affect your friendships and work relationships with people?
 
Meditation, really, really, really helps with OCD without losing the benefits of the condition.
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Can you elaborate? I talked to my doctor before and he said medication is only really for more serious sufferers. Is it just general anti-anxiety medication? How much better do you feel? TBH if I lost any of the "benefits" it wouldnt be worth it.
 
CerIs said:
Can you elaborate? I talked to my doctor before and he said medication is only really for more serious sufferers. Is it just general anti-anxiety medication? How much better do you feel? TBH if I lost any of the "benefits" it wouldnt be worth it.
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Meditating not medicating

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- Check to make sure the stove isn't on before I go sleep.
- Check all doors before sleeping and even step outside incase the dog was forgotten outside even though it has never happened.
- All the shoes in the home have to face the correct direction when paired. Can't have the right shoe on the left side laying there.
- Make sure all the towels are with the right face up when hanging.
- Make sure all my hangers face the same direction as my clothes.
 
I can be pretty OCD, but I've trained myself to "turn it off" when it comes to petty matters. I simply tell myself not to sweat the small stuff (Eg: making sure hangers face the same direction, etc) while focusing it on stuff that involves business and/or complex problem solving.
 
Mildly OCd on some things - like checking the oven/lights before I head out of the door.

And meditating helps with everything, so just go ahead and try it. Nothing to loose but 20min per day.

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This is OCD:
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From the sounds of it, OP definitely has OCD.

The many rest of you who are claiming to not liking cheese on your burritos or always turning the water off when you get out of the shower do not have an OCD.

We used to have a room mate who had OCD. I don't think I ever realized to what extent until one day we decided to make subtle changes to things around the apartment. We angled the chess board slightly, moved a photo frame, turned a plant, left a cabinet ajar, etc. He came home, and within minutes he had literally identified every mildly adjusted item around the apartment, and reset them ALL. It was impressive, but then I realized just how serious it was.

Later found out he was addicted to heroin, and I've heard that can exacerbate that kind of shit.
 
I don't get why people with OCD can't realize there's no benefit to their paranoia/actions and just stop them? What do you think is going to happen if you break the OCD?

The cooker thing seems really odd to me, If you have OCD and check the cooker 50 times, did you forget the first 49 times? No offense but do you have a 2 minute memory? Why not unplug it and put a check mark on your phone after you did so? Is it part of a greater issue like mistrust, fear, lack of self confidence in doing a simple task?
 
so this thread is full of a bunch of people who don't know what OCD actually is...

OCD is a physical manifestation of anxiety. Specifically, it is "an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing the associated anxiety, or by a combination of such obsessions and compulsions."

OCD isn't characterized just be weird habits or ticks, it's characterized by that AND the associated fear/sickness/pain felt when things aren't done that way. Ever see that show Hoarders? They are all OCD. They are anxious/fearful about getting rid of anything in their lives. The fear of getting rid of anything makes them do absolutely irrational things like stacking trash to the ceiling in every room in their house.

If you just have weird habits that aren't debilitating but just annoying, you, well, just have weird habits that aren't debilitating but just annoying. True OCD is what people who are extreme germaphobes, hoarders, stalkers, crazy evangelical fucks, and other basically psychotic people have.

This is why I always crack up when stupid chicks talk about how "OCD" they are, "omg I am so OCD I can never wash my face before brushing my teeth if I do I have to start all over"...bitch that's not OCD you just have a weird habit.
 
dchuk said:
so this thread is full of a bunch of people who don't know what OCD actually is...

OCD is a physical manifestation of anxiety. Specifically, it is "an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing the associated anxiety, or by a combination of such obsessions and compulsions."

OCD isn't characterized just be weird habits or ticks, it's characterized by that AND the associated fear/sickness/pain felt when things aren't done that way. Ever see that show Hoarders? They are all OCD. They are anxious/fearful about getting rid of anything in their lives. The fear of getting rid of anything makes them do absolutely irrational things like stacking trash to the ceiling in every room in their house.

If you just have weird habits that aren't debilitating but just annoying, you, well, just have weird habits that aren't debilitating but just annoying. True OCD is what people who are extreme germaphobes, hoarders, stalkers, crazy evangelical fucks, and other basically psychotic people have.

This is why I always crack up when stupid chicks talk about how "OCD" they are, "omg I am so OCD I can never wash my face before brushing my teeth if I do I have to start all over"...bitch that's not OCD you just have a weird habit.
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It's a spectrum disorder, not black and white, but agree with you about people saying "OMG I'm so OCD" being annoying.

I'm not Howard Hughes, but it has been debilitating in the past... would always take me at least an hour to leave the house because of checking stuff, and even then I'd have turn around after driving for 10 minutes to go and re-check one last time. It started when I was a kid... I an an irrational fear of treading in dog shit, so I'd have to stop and examine my shoes when I was walking down the road every 20 feet or so.

I'm pretty much over it all now (thanks to meditation and improved self-awareness), which is a fucking relief.
 
dchuk said:
so this thread is full of a bunch of people who don't know what OCD actually is...

OCD is a physical manifestation of anxiety. Specifically, it is "an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing the associated anxiety, or by a combination of such obsessions and compulsions."

OCD isn't characterized just be weird habits or ticks, it's characterized by that AND the associated fear/sickness/pain felt when things aren't done that way. Ever see that show Hoarders? They are all OCD. They are anxious/fearful about getting rid of anything in their lives. The fear of getting rid of anything makes them do absolutely irrational things like stacking trash to the ceiling in every room in their house.

If you just have weird habits that aren't debilitating but just annoying, you, well, just have weird habits that aren't debilitating but just annoying. True OCD is what people who are extreme germaphobes, hoarders, stalkers, crazy evangelical fucks, and other basically psychotic people have.

This is why I always crack up when stupid chicks talk about how "OCD" they are, "omg I am so OCD I can never wash my face before brushing my teeth if I do I have to start all over"...bitch that's not OCD you just have a weird habit.
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Thank you for the clarification Dr. OCD. Can a mod please either fix the thread title to reflect that everyone is simply talking about weird habits or if more convenient simply delete this thread.
 
Checking if my alarm on cell phone is set for like 30 times, before I go to sleep is called what? OCD or just a dumb habbit?
 
This thread is probably a case of wanting to find a superhero side-effect in our defects that makes us unique and special. It's a way of thinking that we're all probably occasionally guilty of.
 
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