OCD Club

Rubyfruit

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We all have little compulsions, don't we? Most disorders are simply an exaggeration of a typical personality trait.

Obessive Compulsive Disorder. This is one of mine.

I am a bit germ phobic about public restrooms. I avoid them if I can, but will use them if necessary. I HATE taking my kids in them, because little kids seem to touch everything. I must wash my hands in hot soapy water before I leave, even if I haven't touched anything, and I use my paper towel to open the door with on my way out.

Yours?
 
a tip for you, ms. fruit, given to me by one of my professors last semester:

what really makes your hands clean in the water moving over them. it's not the temperature of the water, or even the soap (though it does help), but the duration of time you have your hands in the running water.
 
I have anti-bacterial hand-gel, and whenever I go out, it goes with me. Pretty much the same reason, here. I'm not a big fan of public restrooms, and even washing with soap and water just doesn't feel clean enough.
 
Oddly, I know that, Lex. :) I've read that before.

It's amazing how clean a kid will get with just water. Sometimes I just stick mine in the shower for 20 minutes and they come out squeaky clean regardless of soap.
 
seXieleXie said:
a tip for you, ms. fruit, given to me by one of my professors last semester:

what really makes your hands clean in the water moving over them. it's not the temperature of the water, or even the soap (though it does help), but the duration of time you have your hands in the running water.

My friends works in home health care told me you should wash your hands a for a minimum of the time it takes you to sing the alphabet song.
So if you ever see anyone washing their hands sing A B C D E F...thats me:)
 
I always step over side walk cracks.

I prefer my my money to be placed in order of largest bill to smallest.

I always have to check for my keys location twice before leaving the car.

I will compulsively pick at things that are peeling or rotting, such as paint.
 
Rubyfruit said:
We all have little compulsions, don't we? Most disorders are simply an exaggeration of a typical personality trait.

Obessive Compulsive Disorder. This is one of mine.

I am a bit germ phobic about public restrooms. I avoid them if I can, but will use them if necessary. I HATE taking my kids in them, because little kids seem to touch everything. I must wash my hands in hot soapy water before I leave, even if I haven't touched anything, and I use my paper towel to open the door with on my way out.

Yours?

Ruby, does this mean that sex with me in the men's room stall is out? Oh, please tell me it isn't so.
 
Sillyman said:
I always step over side walk cracks.

I prefer my my money to be placed in order of largest bill to smallest.

I step over cracks, too. You mean some people step on them?

I *always* arrange bills smallest on top, largest on bottom.
 
i have too damn many symptoms of OCD to put them into a single post, and to write them all out requires more effort than i care to give.

but they are not the ones people normally associate with OCD. one is that i have a hard time being honest about what i'm doing or thinking, even to people i know intimately and trust unconditionally.
 
Reading about you washing your hand in hot soapy water well you will find this gross but if you want to sanitize your hands pee on them.
 
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Northern Lights said:


Ruby, does this mean that sex with me in the men's room stall is out? Oh, please tell me it isn't so.

Are you kidding? That's one of my biggest fantasies.

Of course, I hope you'll understand when I stop to wash my hands on the way out. ;)

___

Ok, bills in order, but do you have to have them all facing the same way, horizontally and vertically? I do.

____

scylis, what other symptoms do you have?
 
If I was still working as a janitor, I could get you in so you could have sex while it was minty fresh and germ free. You might still want to wash your hands though.
 
what other symptoms?

i had a list, but i lost it.

samples:
must bring certain items along with me wherever i go. what items changes periodically. usually new stuff or my cd player.

always have to have an asortment of pens with me wherever i go. doesn't matter if i use them or not.

i just HAVE to get more knives. makes working at a knife store hell when i'm broke and my next paycheck is for rent.

stuffed animals. don't know why, but i buy a lot of them.

note books, the good quality ones (usually Five Star). have to have them. doodle a little in one, then i get a new one.

patterns. must find patters. there's patterns in everything. the patterns must repeat regularly in designs and arrangements. if something's off, it irritates me. must straighten the patterns we put the knives in in the displays at work if they're even a little off. must find patterns in numbers. i don't care what the pattern is, nor am i drawn to any particular form of patterns in number, i just need to find something.

an off-shoot of the pattern thing, but i look for familiar number sequences. dates are big, and so is 1701. if there's something that's one number off, and the number's at the beginning of the sequence (such as 4701, 3776, etc.), i recognise it.

sometimes i just HAVE to wear/do/draw/watch/finish/read something. it can vary from wearing my sunglasses while i was at work on thursday to finishing a particular section of the book i'm reading, even if it's not all that interesting a chapter. this covers a lot of my compulsions, since a lot of them don't fit into any real catagory when placed together with all my other ones.
 
for instance, my post count as of the post i made above with the samples was 4783. change the 4 to a 1 and you have 1783, the year the Revolutionary War ended (at least, that's what my brain is telling me. and my brain isn't infullable.. er.. infallable)
 
scylis, sounds like OCD to me. If it interfers with you life, you should see a doc.

My son has a very strong OCD component. That's why I've looked into it.
 
it doesn't really interfere with my like, just tends to put a crimp on people trusting me.
 
Sounds like you have it under control.

It runs in my family. My mom has to check the stove knobs several times before leaving the house. My brother counts obsessively. Syllables, letters, words.

Here's another of mine. I have long hair. It sheds. I hate finding a shed hair on my clothing or my skin. To avoid this, I finger comb my hair to get rid of the loose ones, several times a day.
 
I get off on Deconstruction and buddism

I guess I qualify.,
 
I do the bills thing.

Most of my other "OCD" types of things I feel are on account of my mind trying to stay occupied. Like noting that, in a collage, a particular shade of blue was not the appropriate one to use. Stupid crap like that.

When I'm writing and I sit and try to find the exact word my mind's looking for but can't put together on its own.
Or I recognize a face and have to find a way to put a name to it. (Often.)
Or hear something and have to find the origin that I can't remember.

I smack my ass every time I leave my house/apartment/whatever to make sure I have my wallet with me. I repeat this on my thigh to check for keys.
 
Stop it please please stop it i used to think i was sane but now i realise im as mad as a cut snake,as mad as a cut snake,as mad as a cut snake.

Sorry about the three times thing
Sorry about the three times thing
Sorry about the three times thing

Mike Mike Mike
:p :p :p
 
I am obsessed with the number 4. I admit it. I dont have to repeat things 4 times but I try to make everything fit neatly into groups of 4.Like I divide my M & Ms into piles of 4 and I have to eat all the ones that dont fit right, then I eat one from each pile evenly.
 
I can't believe I forgot. I'm SO obsessed with blue it's sick. I'll point it out everywhere. Literally. Allow me to demonstrate.

We pan in on The Boy walking down the street with a friend. A blue car drives by. The Boy reaches out a hand, points and says...

"Blue."

CUT!

See? It's really bad.
 
Kitte said:
I am obsessed with the number 4. I admit it. I dont have to repeat things 4 times but I try to make everything fit neatly into groups of 4.Like I divide my M & Ms into piles of 4 and I have to eat all the ones that dont fit right, then I eat one from each pile evenly.

What she said but with the number 7.

(Anyone for Sesame Street? *lol*)
 
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