Do you suffer from O.C.D?

[J'Adore]

hi does anyone suffer from Obsessive-compulsive disorder ? what is it?? and how well do u hide it?

:)

[IceyMaiden]

Hi J'Adore. I think I must do - I now have a compulsion to come on the computer every night!!! Lol.

[Velvetee]

I think most people have some sort of OCD, there are just different degrees of severity.

I can't step on floors in bare feet, for fear of germs. I have to dry myself off in the bath and then step into my flip flops.

I have major rows with my partner, as he walks everywhere in the house bare footed. I think it's so unhygenic and the thought of him bringing dirt from his feet into the bed, drives me to distraction.

I have other compulsions, most revolve around hygiene.

[Velvetee]

Well, I know lots of people who have similar compulsions.

Another quirk of mine, I never put my bag on a floor, imagine picking up all those germs, dirt and filth.

[Velvetee]

Why do you lock the door quietly Niceboy?

[Sir Alec]

Have you ever watched Monk? He's great and you can only feel sorry for these people though I know he's a bad case.

[IceyMaiden]

Considering that our skin's crawling with germs and bacteria anyway, I don't know how you're going to overcome that one, Velvetee, but being compulsive about hygeine IS a common one. I know someone who 'd never dream of dropping something on the floor and then picking it up again without washing her hands before and after. I think it's going a bit far, and can spread to other areas of a person's life as well. I have an auntie who can't bear to see a cushion out of place. You daren't sit down for fear of crumpling one!

[Velvetee]

I also have a thing about symmetry. I like things to look balanced and symmetrical in an orderly fashion.

[ELVIS68]

I always have to have the volume on a radio or tv on an even number, always put the cutlery back in the drawer from left to right....knives forks spoons, and always hang the loo rolls with the paper hanging down from the back

Oh and always call heads on the flip of a coin

[jno]

I have the loo paper hanging down in front, easier to see where the end is... but that's not obsessive; nor is calling heads. In both cases you only have two choices, and either is normal. OCD is more about trying to control what is basically uncontrollable. Not only is constant washing stressful, it may even be counterproductive: if you don't have contact with germs you won't build up immunity; then when one does hit you you're in trouble. You might want to see about treatment, Velvetee, especially if it's causing rows.

I do like pictures on a wall to hang straight, but I don't get into arguments about it.

[J'Adore]

thnks guys very interesting types of OCD.
icey, does it have to be a certain to come online? :)

noknowledge i do know what it is, im asking what are YOUR OCD? :)

sir alec no not seen the Monk. whats it about?

Velvetee, im with you with that, i cant step on floors with bare feets etc. also i have to wash all my fruits before i eat it!!

Elvis, now thats proper ocd lol very common :)

ok i tell you another one of mine. our mixer tap has got to be turn back to the middle. it cannot be on the left or right after you've used it. its got to move bk to the middle!

[terambulan]

I gotta have a clean desktop on this pc............and am not showing it to you unless you show me yours!

[terambulan]

and.........I gotta have all four posts before I can sleep.......!

[IceyMaiden]

No, J'Adore!!! Lol. I nip onto AB most nights just to try and have a laugh with folk, but it's certainly not compulsory!!!! However, I DO spend a lot of time on the computer - for work AND other reasons.

[Velvetee]

J'Adore, washing fruit before eating them is normal, people who don't are just dirty.

I'm always irritated, if in the Supermarket, people pick grapes or cherries from the displays and pop them in their mouths. Yuck!!

[~max~]

Velvetee, what exactly are these people going to pick up? It's one of those common paranoia about hygiene, akin to thinking you're going to pick up diseases from sitting on a public toilet. I don't do it because of a personal "ickyness" factor, but there is no valid, medical reason why you shouldn't. I agree with JNO there. I walk barefoot all the time in my flat, and I have a cat (although she's a house cat and doesn't go out). She sleeps in my bed. Whilst I wouldn't expect someone else to put up with it, I have no problem with it. I haven't been any sicker than anyone I know, and I hardly ever get a cold (haven't one this winter, actually).