Mild Obsessive Compulsive Behaviour

[sp1814]

Whilst watching an old episode of 'Friends' the other night, there was a scene where Monica was shown to have slight OCD (the flower pattern on her duvet had to point towards the bed head, because flower 'grow that way')

Got me thinking of my own weird OCD behaviour.

I have to get ALL the bits of foil off the lid of a new jar of coffee before using it. Even the tiniest bit of foil left clinging to the opening bothers me.

And when I wear headphones to listen to music, I HAVE to have the left one going to my left ear and the right one in my right ear - even though it makes bog all difference.

What are your weird OCD behaviours?

[boxtops]

Things have to be the right way up. A friend of mine had double glazing in a daisy pattern in her front door, the daisies were upside down. it drove me barmy, she hadn't even noticed.

When I do tiling, the tiles have to be the right way up if there's a pattern - I ripped out a windowledge of tiles in a former life, because then-OH had muddled up the pattern. It's the dressmaker in me.

Other stuff - pah! my house is a tip and I haven't washed up for two days. I'll do it later, there's only me here :-)

[China Doll]

'I'm generally a clean/tidy freak. CD is totally the opposite.'

^^^ I'd like to point out that I'm not dirty since that is the opposite of clean! But I am quite messy and chaotic.

OCD things - I like the tea, coffee and sugar jars to face the same way. My books are alphabetical order and then series order (or they were, I've been messing them up recently); but I think this is just common sense if you want to find something quickly.

Can't really think of much else.

[jackthehat]

I have CDO......it's a bit like OCD but the letters are in a more pleasing order...:o)

[boxtops]

I just generally have CBA - can't be @rsed

[ummmm]

My OH came in from work and put his wallet, 2 phones and keys on the coffee table....they are annoying me!!

I lit a Yankee candle but now the lid to it is annoying me....I'm going to have to blow it out and put the lid back on...

But...I have 3 spiders in my living room and won't do anything to disturb them.

[EvianBaby]

Joko, I have considered that a little more. Your post is a perfect example of the problem - over thinking. Everyone has to over think everything. Like its better if something IS an issue.

I know, as do probably all the people on this thread that if my crisps are opened upside down or the volume is an odd number nothing bad will happen as a result and we carry on with life. It's being finickety, it's not OCD.

Anyway, I'm guessing this was meant to be a fun thread, not a serious one so I probably shouldn't have brought it up but that's my opinion on it and it ain't changing.

[ummmm]

As it was watching 'Friends' that triggered it :-)

Pity SP hasn't got OCD about weeds...

[jno]

tapping a can of drink three times is a habit.

Having to tap it three times is a compulsion.

[gingejbee]

sp: somebody may have said this already...but you SHOULD wear headphones the right way round, because it DOES make a difference.

[EvianBaby]

Ill rephrase then, I don't HAVE to tap it. If I don't, which I always do because its a habit I've had for years, I'd still drink it. Same as most other habits here.

[EvianBaby]

Also, funnily enough I've been trapped in a friends time warp the past few days. I had it on when I saw this post. I still have it on.

[ummmm]

We were lead to believe that tapping a fizzy drink 3 times stopped it fizzing over.

[EvianBaby]

That's what I was told years ago. I don't think it actually does though.

[joko]

that was my point jno ... if something so minor and irrational and essentially pointless causes such worry and upset and forces people to behave in unusual ways, then it is not just a habit, its a compulsion.

i don't see that making that distinction is over-thinking it at all ... i'd say it was an important to separate harmless quirks from anxiety driven compulsions

and what a bizarre thing to say that me merely making that distinction - 'is part of the problem'...!

evian - you used phrases like 'i need', and 'i have to', and said you refuse eat them upside down ...