Ocd.

[HSMndLKfan92]

Sorry, this is one of my biggest pet peeves.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is just that. A disorder.
While it's fairly common as far as psychological disorders go (as many as 1 in every 50 American adults has it) not EVERYONE has it.

Actual OCD is severe.
Just because sometimes you display similar symptoms doesn't mean you have the disorder.
Needing to have a certain bedtime routine or only eating certain colored Skittles are basically just personality quirks, driven in by repetative rituals.

It just really irks me when people say "Ahh, I'm so ADD today." Or, "My OCD is kicking up," when they don't have any psychological disorder.
Disorders are the exception, not the rule.

I knew what you were talking about.
For my bedtime tendencies, I'm starting to get to the point where I'm checking 2 or 3 times a night before I fall asleep. I think that's somewhat bad, but it's the only issue I can really start to get worried over.

Some other tendencies I've come up with:
I have to keep my shoes clean, too.
When I walk, I have to repeatedly count to four. I think it's a marching band thing that's carried over into my every day long distance walking, in and out of school, but it bothers me when I lose count.

 

[chisnpeke]

I know that. But everyone has OCD tendencies, whether they are barely noticeable or full blown, diagnosed OCD. Having OCD tendencies and having OCD are not the same thing.

Example:
OCD tendencies - the only thing that bothers me is straightening out my curtains.
OCD - I need to check my curtains at least 5 times in a row before I go to sleep to make sure there is nothing there.

Yep, EVERYONE has some sort of tendency to do things a certain way. It's just part of being human. It's OCD tendencies not actually having the disorder.

 

[Shelton123]

Sorry, this is one of my biggest pet peeves.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is just that. A disorder.
While it's fairly common as far as psychological disorders go (as many as 1 in every 50 American adults has it) not EVERYONE has it.

Actual OCD is severe.
Just because sometimes you display similar symptoms doesn't mean you have the disorder.
Needing to have a certain bedtime routine or only eating certain colored Skittles are basically just personality quirks, driven in by repetative rituals.

It just really irks me when people say "Ahh, I'm so ADD today." Or, "My OCD is kicking up," when they don't have any psychological disorder.
Disorders are the exception, not the rule.

Everyone has both of those disorders to a degree. You can't be ADD one day, because everyone has ADD every day. Everyone has OCD every day too. Everyone likes at least SOMETHING a certain way. And everyone gets distracted at some points in their life.

 

[Axel]

I have more of the "compulsive" portion of OCD most of the time...I don't pay attention to messes (like...my room looks like a storm went through) most of the time. But about once every month I just get so fed up with it that I lock myself in my room and clean. I put all my clothes away (shirts by topic and then by style [ie: sports shirts, then within sports shirts are the polos, then the tees and then the tanks], etc), I dust, I wipe everything down, I do my windows, I completely unmake and re-make my bed, I make sure my shotglasses are in alphabetical order by country (and then by state), I make sure my books are alphabetized by author then by title (and in the case that a book doesn't fit on the shelf it should be on, first on the next shelf) and so on. I do the same for the basement. DVDs are alphabetical, then Disney VHSes alphabetically, then non-disney VHSes alphabetically. Games are arranged in order alphabetically by PS1 games and PS2 games. I clean my entire bathroom- sink, toilet, shower. I draino the drains, I scrub, I dust, I re-organize all my shampoo and conditioner. My pantry is arranged in logical order, then alphabetically (the entire thing isn't alphabetical because I don't want anything that shouldn't be near each other near each other). Yeah.

As for things I do without thinking...even numbers. Things must end on an even number. I get sooooo angry when teachers assign an odd number of problems for homework. When I'm doing any sort of assignment, my handwriting must be perfect. The littlest mistake and I feel the need to start over again. I hate using staples. I go out of my way to use paperclips.

"your" vs. "you're", "they're" vs. "their" vs. "there", "waist" vs. "waste", etc. Those all bug me soooooo much when they're misused. Also- "It's" is a contraction. "Its" is possesive. Misplaced apostrophes bother me, too. Our school had spirit week last week and Friday was spirit day. A lot of people had their class year written on their face- but the apostrophe was in the wrong spot! A ton of senior girls had " 09' " on their faces. I wanted to scream at them that it should be " '09 ", but I instead opted to say it politely.

Misspelling simple (ish) words. Our middle school misspelled the school name on the basketball jackets! The sophomore powderpuff football team misspelled "sophomore" last year! I get so ticked when people write things and can't even bother with spell check. I had to peer edit a classmate's work in writing last semester and almost died! He would type pages and then print them and give them to me, but would never use spellcheck! Most of what I corrected on his pages were spelling and grammatical errors. I try not to correct people on here, just because I usually get yelled at.

 

[BabyPiglet]

Sorry, this is one of my biggest pet peeves.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is just that. A disorder.
While it's fairly common as far as psychological disorders go (as many as 1 in every 50 American adults has it) not EVERYONE has it.

Actual OCD is severe.
Just because sometimes you display similar symptoms doesn't mean you have the disorder.
Needing to have a certain bedtime routine or only eating certain colored Skittles are basically just personality quirks, driven in by repetative rituals.

It just really irks me when people say "Ahh, I'm so ADD today." Or, "My OCD is kicking up," when they don't have any psychological disorder.
Disorders are the exception, not the rule.

Well all know that. I think we're talking about the tendancies more than anything.

Personally, as I get older it's been getting worse. I've always been a control freak but I've noticed that more & more things have to go under my 'control' now. I've always thought I've had some sort of anxiety disorder.

Everyone has both of those disorders to a degree. You can't be ADD one day, because everyone has ADD every day. Everyone has OCD every day too. Everyone likes at least SOMETHING a certain way. And everyone gets distracted at some points in their life.

You can have obsessions & compulsions, but it's the 'disorder' part that's key. 'OCD' is almost slang nowadays.

I feel bad for the people who really have OCD, because it's a true and honest physchological problem.

More of my 'quirks', lol.

- Shower. I noticed that some of you mentioned this. Mine is 'rinse hair, two squirts shampoo, lathar shampoo for 90 seconds, rinse hair, two quirts of conditioner, two squirts of body wash, rinse body, shave, rinse hair.' It's the same every single day. If I only have like one squirt of conditioner left, it completely throws me off. I think it's just a part of humans being predictable creatures.

- Night routine. Lately, my door HAS to be shut. I don't know what it is. I will get out of bed over and over again if the door opens or something. Closet door has to be shut. Curtains closed. Again, I will get up and close these things if for some reason they open.

- When I eat, my face has to be clean. I know that's kind of an obvious thing, lol, but I've been doing it since kindergarten. During recess when kids got icecream, I'd always be the only one without a sticky mess all over my face. I do it to the people around me too. Like last night when we went out, my dad was eating ribs and I thought my head was going to explode. I go through tons and tons of napkins.

All for now.

 

[Tinkerbell424]

I use to have a lot of OCD tendecies back in the 6th/7th grade.
I would clean something until it was completely clean, if it wasnt, I wouldnt stop.
I had to do this thing with my hands an even amount of times until it felt okay to stop.
If I touched something or accidently bumped into something I would have to do it on my other side or touch it on my other hand.
TV sound/radio sound would have to be on an even decibel.

I don't really have a lot of OCD tendecies anymore.

 

[Jasmine45]

i cannot have ANY light when i sleep.
i can never have a clip in my hair when im on the computer cuz i always play with it
i cant wear non-flat bracelets on my right arm
i AWAYS have to sleep with my phone and ipod right next to me.
i need a completely flat pillow
i write all my letters lowercase! my teachers get anoyed.
when i write numbers, i always have to write over them 3 times...
i have to write really important things on my hands
i ALWAYSSS have to have a cami on under everything
i have to sit on the tippy tippy edge of my seat in school and tip forward
i always always always have to have gum becasue im paroniod my breath smells




hahaha woah i just realized how weird those are

 

[imabrat]

I'm a control freak. My parents call me "Ms. Back seat driver". I'm always correcting my mom on how to drive. I have to have the remote in my hands if I'm watching TV. Everything has to go my way or I'm not happy.

 

[STOPxmickeytime]

Ahh, yeah to everyone that responded to my rant, sorry. I know you guys all know that you don't actually have OCD. I just get really annoyed by people self-diagnosing over little things, when in all reality they're serious disorders that seriously affect people.
I know I get a little too heated about it, it's just one of those things that really gets to me.

But Shelton (sorry, I don't know your real name), that's basically what I was addressing.
Not everyone has OCD or ADD. People have some minor compulsions and a tendency to lose focus because that's in human nature.
It just seems that a lot of people confuse OCD tendencies with the actual disorder (just like Sonya and Jenny basically said) and that just bugs me.

But anyway. Back onto the topic of the thread. Some of my "quirks" are:
-I need to check my alarm clock at least 5 times every night, because I'm always sure that I forgot to put it on.
-I can't sleep under my covers. I sleep on top of them with a throw blanket over me. I think that started just from being too lazy to make my bed, but now it just feels weird sleeping under covers.
-I say this "prayer" every night before I go to sleep. It never varies, it's like 10 sentences in a row that never change. And if I don't do it, I feel like something awful will happen.

 

[BabyPiglet]

I use to have a lot of OCD tendecies back in the 6th/7th grade.
I would clean something until it was completely clean, if it wasnt, I wouldnt stop.
I had to do this thing with my hands an even amount of times until it felt okay to stop.
If I touched something or accidently bumped into something I would have to do it on my other side or touch it on my other hand.
TV sound/radio sound would have to be on an even decibel.

I don't really have a lot of OCD tendecies anymore.

That's a big one of mine, and I just now realized that it's not normal! Lol. Things have to be even.

My first memory of this was in 2nd grade, and the girl next to me was bending her eraser. But she was only bending it to the left, & it made me ridiculously uncomfortable. I eventually just grabbed it from her, bent it a few times to the right, & I felt much better.

 

[imabrat]

Oh yeah, I can't sleep with a top sheet. I need a flat sheet and a comforter. My feet need to breathe too, I never sleep with my feet covered.

 

[chisnpeke]

Sometimes I'll have to click with my mouse a certain amount of times on the screen. I won't even be clicking on a button or anything, I just have to click in order to satisfy myself.

I used to have to touch the top of door frames or the part that comes down between the ceiling and the wall everytime I went under them. That was when I was a lot younger though, like 11 or 12.

 

[wdwllamadancer]

Grammar and spelling. I correct everything but I try not to correct people on here as well.
I have a thing with numbers. They have to been even or multiples of 5.
I put my jewelry on in a certain order. Watch on left wrist then bracelet on right.
I also have a bobby pin order. The black one always has to go on the right and the brown one goes on the left.
I always sleep on my left side.
I will probably edit this later.

 

[STWolfe]

-All my books have to be perfecly lined up or I get really ticked off. If there's not enough room on my desk I throw them on the floor lol
-If my guitar cable gets twisted up I get really angry because it's impossible to untwist and the cable is always falling out of the guitar
-I always say a prayer before I go to bed and if I don't I feel like something bad will happen.
-I always have to set up the perfect font ant font size before I even think about starting a paper
-I hate it when people's shirts get caught up behind their butt. It's kind of hard to explain but it makes me want to run over and pull their shirt down
-I always have to have the remote when I watch TV or I feel uncomfortable
-I hate when people mix up Disney World with Disneyland
-I hate when people start talking about WDW and they're wrong
-I can't have anything in my left pocket. I can barely feel something if it's in my right pocket but if it's in my left it feels like a cow lol. It gets annoying sometimes
-If my house is messy I have to go around and clean everythig up
-I always use the scrolly bar on the mouse and scroll up and down really fast when I'm bored
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[DramaQueen]

Ahh, yeah to everyone that responded to my rant, sorry. I know you guys all know that you don't actually have OCD. I just get really annoyed by people self-diagnosing over little things, when in all reality they're serious disorders that seriously affect people.
I know I get a little too heated about it, it's just one of those things that really gets to me.

But Shelton (sorry, I don't know your real name), that's basically what I was addressing.
Not everyone has OCD or ADD. People have some minor compulsions and a tendency to lose focus because that's in human nature.
It just seems that a lot of people confuse OCD tendencies with the actual disorder (just like Sonya and Jenny basically said) and that just bugs me.

But anyway. Back onto the topic of the thread. Some of my "quirks" are:
-I need to check my alarm clock at least 5 times every night, because I'm always sure that I forgot to put it on.
-I can't sleep under my covers. I sleep on top of them with a throw blanket over me. I think that started just from being too lazy to make my bed, but now it just feels weird sleeping under covers.
-I say this "prayer" every night before I go to sleep. It never varies, it's like 10 sentences in a row that never change. And if I don't do it, I feel like something awful will happen.

I totally agreed with your original 'rant'. And I know everyone on this thread doesn't really mean they HAVE OCD, but I do get slightly irked when peopl self-diagnose and say they have OCD--as opposed to just having OCD tendencies...or quirks, as we seem to be calling them (which I like much better ) As a person who has suffered from a mental illness I just get REALLY annoyed when someone is like 'OMG I am so [insert mental illness]'
/rant.

I have alot of quirks. my main one--and it's a weird one...
I ALWAYS have to have clear nail polish on my fingers.
BUT I ALWAYS peel it off, but I HATE the feeling of my nails without polish, it makes me cringe and feel disgusting, SO I carry around my bottle of clea nail polish and do my nails wherever...I get alot of weird looks, but it's just...a thing! lol.

 

[disneyworldluvr349]

I am a perfectionist. I love to write in pen but hate when I mess up.

Is that Kate Winslet?

 

[bananda]

- i have to check between all my sheets and blankets for spiders before i get into bed.
- i cant sleep just covered by a sheet. i have to have a sheet and then one or two blanketsdepending on how hot it is. it could be 30 degrees but i won't be able to sleep unless i have a blanket covering me.
- i can only drink milk out of a solid coloured mug. if it's in a glass, i can't drink it.
- juice must be in a clear glass.
- water has to be either in a 570mL glass or my pink plastic disney princess cup.
- food prep. i always avoid cross contamination with cutting boards, knives, etc. i have to tie my hair back before i start to cook. these are all for health reasons though.

i recently went through a stage where i had to play 3 games of solitaire on my phone before i went to sleep. i dont do that anymore though.

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

I have to do things 5, 10, 15, 20 (so on...) times. Three (only three, not 6 or whatever) times if I'm in a hurry but I haven't been able to do that lately since it doesn't feel right anymore. I count to 20, 25, 30, 50 or 75 (or more sometimes) when I'm washing my hands, if someone starts talking to me or I start thinking about something else I forget which number I'm on and have to start over. If someone comes and gets something by the sink when I'm washing my hands I have to start over. I open doors and stuff which my jacket. If one of my hands get wet I have to get the other one wet, like if I just rinse something off and get water on my hand I have to get my other hand wet...I can't touch my food. If I do I throw it away, even if I'm not sure if I really did touch it. The last time I touched my food and ate it was in 7th grade, I was really hungry and at the movies with my class...5th grade I used to only touch my food on Fridays since I took something different for lunch. I use forks, spoons and napkins to eat everything. I have to rinse off the forks and spoons before I use them. With napkins, I turn them like, inside out (unfold them, then fold it the other way, so the inside isn't inside anymore...) ? If I think the fork/spoon/napkin touched something I have to get a new one. I can only get the forks/spoons/other stuff like that from the drawer, I can't get them from the dishrack thing. If I think I touched something I have to wash my hands, I usually keep my hands up so I don't touch things by mistake. I have lots of unwanted thoughts about things like the future and death and some other things...when I get off DIS the last number in my post count has to be a five or a zero. There's probably more.


Like, two years ago I got Zoloft for OCD. I don't take it since I don't want to.

Wow, I'm a lot like that just not quite as intense. I do the counting thing just as intense, I pretty much count in everything I do. Sometimes I can control myself and not focus/care but usually the number I end on has to end in a 9....of I'll just tell myself to shut up and not care. I got a lot better with not caring over the last year or so but it's starting to get worse again....it's very annoying. As for the other actions I pretty much got those under control by myself, used to be kinda bad. It's weird though I was never like this at all until about a year and a half ago. Never really told anyone about it.

I've been telling myself to shut up a lot lately, it works sometimes. My family thinks my OCD is mostly with germs and getting sick since I don't really talk about the other things.

 

[BabyPiglet]

My mom looked at this thread and reminded me of one more.

I twirl my hair with my fingers. It's something I've been doing since I can remember. I have to twirl it with each hand for a certain period of time, until it feels 'right'. Even if my hand gets tired or I have to type on the computer, I won't stop doing it.

My 5th grade teacher made fun of me for it, and she would ***** at me everytime I started. But it's just an automatic thing, once I start I can't stop until...I do.

If that makes any sense. My mom's rolling her eyes.

 

[M.I.C.]

I have to do things 5, 10, 15, 20 (so on...) times. Three (only three, not 6 or whatever) times if I'm in a hurry but I haven't been able to do that lately since it doesn't feel right anymore. I count to 20, 25, 30, 50 or 75 (or more sometimes) when I'm washing my hands, if someone starts talking to me or I start thinking about something else I forget which number I'm on and have to start over. If someone comes and gets something by the sink when I'm washing my hands I have to start over. I open doors and stuff which my jacket. If one of my hands get wet I have to get the other one wet, like if I just rinse something off and get water on my hand I have to get my other hand wet...I can't touch my food. If I do I throw it away, even if I'm not sure if I really did touch it. The last time I touched my food and ate it was in 7th grade, I was really hungry and at the movies with my class...5th grade I used to only touch my food on Fridays since I took something different for lunch. I use forks, spoons and napkins to eat everything. I have to rinse off the forks and spoons before I use them. With napkins, I turn them like, inside out (unfold them, then fold it the other way, so the inside isn't inside anymore...) ? If I think the fork/spoon/napkin touched something I have to get a new one. I can only get the forks/spoons/other stuff like that from the drawer, I can't get them from the dishrack thing. If I think I touched something I have to wash my hands, I usually keep my hands up so I don't touch things by mistake. I have lots of unwanted thoughts about things like the future and death and some other things...when I get off DIS the last number in my post count has to be a five or a zero. There's probably more.


Like, two years ago I got Zoloft for OCD. I don't take it since I don't want to.

Wow, I'm a lot like that just not quite as intense. I do the counting thing just as intense, I pretty much count in everything I do. Sometimes I can control myself and not focus/care but usually the number I end on has to end in a 9....of I'll just tell myself to shut up and not care. I got a lot better with not caring over the last year or so but it's starting to get worse again....it's very annoying. As for the other actions I pretty much got those under control by myself, used to be kinda bad. It's weird though I was never like this at all until about a year and a half ago. Never really told anyone about it.