OCD's

[BertiWooster]

Carrying on from the question below about phobias .

Do you suffer from OCD's - mild / moderate / major ?

[China Doll]

I remember it more from primary school Berti, seeing other children open their crisp packets the wrong way round used to really get on my nerves. I recently told my boyfriend about this and now he takes great delight in opening the crips packet the wrong way round!

[milly143]

Tigger, mine was as a result of using lots of chemicals when I was hairdressing and the heat in the summer always made it worse. Now I have stopped hairdressing it seems to have gone thankfully but my Doc recommended smothering my hands in E45 and then wearing cotton gloves to bed. That helped a bit.

Sorry for hijakcing the post Berti!

[tiggerblue10]

I have been using E45 but it still doesn't work. Mine occurs more in the winter when the cold air hits my hands. Have to wear gloves all the time.

[RATTER15]

I dont think I have any, I feel left out :-(

[zzxxee]

when i say goodbye to love ones on the phone i always end the call with "bye love you bye" i always say goodbye twice and i'm not sure why ???????????????

[mccfluff]

is my wobbly food thing an ocd? i don;t think it is, i suspect that's just me being weird!

[wolf63]

I don't suffer from real OCD but have 'normal' habits that are irrational. I lock the front door, unlock it then lock it again to be sure that it is locked. I eat biscuits in threes - not good when you are twice the size that you should be. ;-)

But certain things do get on my nerves more than they should.

I get really rattled when people say that they have the flu when they have a bug or a cold. I have had the real flu twice and it was really nasty.

I didn't know that you could open crisp packets at the other end - they have to be opened the correct way up.

The more I think about this the more strange behaviour I realise I display. I must discuss this with my nice psychiatrist when I next go to see him. :-)

Susan

[tiggerblue10]

I feel the same way as you about people who say they have flu when its clearly just a cold or the sniffles Susan. I've had flu several times in my life and its horrible. Stupid people at work ring in sick with "flu" and are back at work the next day! If they had flu they would aching, shivering, unable to eat, have headaches and have difficulty getting out of bed for at least a week.

[milly143]

The flu thing bugs me. I've never had it but I know people who have say you feel like you really are about to die and you are so ill you wouldn't reach the end of the bed to pick up a £50 note but everyone says they have flu and then like you say, are back to normal the next day.

[tiggerblue10]

Exactly Milly. I don't know how people cans say they have it when they haven't got aclue what they're talking about.

[joko]

i dont have anything OCD...though i suppose i have minor quirks and a 'way' of doing things but nothing involving double checking things and repeating actions etc...just stuff that is a preference - such as i have to have a bag of cheese an onion crisps with egg mayonaisse sandwiches...but only because i just dont like it without...thats not weird, as my pal claimed.

i actually wish i had some OCD tendencies when it comes to cleaning though...im so crap at it and i cant be bothered with it at all...just dont care...

my boyfriend is obsessive about cleaning, to the point of flipping if you stir sauce and put the spoon on the surface, leaving a blob, and hoovering uneccesarily...its annoying