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dtewi said:
Hawkeye said:
I... thought I did, but I have been unsure. If I do, its extremely mild. I have found whatever you feel you "have" to do, purposely screw it up and watch nothing bad happen. You will then realize you don't have to do whatever it is, and that particular obsession is cured! For Dtewi for example, purposely touch object together and watch as nothing bad at all happens. Worked for me.

You have clearly missed my third post in this thread.

 

I saw it after editing. I get that too. I have found (actually was told lol) that thinking it through and thinking "can that really hurt me?" when I feel like something is "bad" and then purposely doing it kills any possilby budding compulsion. Also, lots of sleep, avoiding alchol and caffine helps.



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dtewi said:
Kasz216 said:
No. I had a very minor compulsion when I was younger like that... but nothing came of it.

Whenever i got something out of the fride and closed the door i'd have to go back and open it to make sure i didn't accidently lock my dog in there. Which was basically impossible, there was no room at the bottom to do it.

Yet no matter what i did it would nag me and i couldn't do anything till i went back and checked or saw my dog.

Still happens to me rarely... but it's like... very rare.

I just want to know how that would even be slightly possible. Would your dog like climb into it and just sit down and you would not even notice it and close the door.

It really wasn't even slightly possible, since it was one of those fridges that had the vegetable drawers on the ground.

It was just an irrational compulsion i had for some reason.

 



Yes, I would say that I have OCD to an extent. I organized all of my dollar bills I have in my room (2 20's, about 8 5's, and over 140 1's) alphabetically and numerically according to the code that is on them.

Like this: (1's) A 00..., A 02..., A 051..., A053 etc... Then to the 5's and the 20's.

I was really bored.



Hawkeye said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:
dtewi said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:
Yes. Every time I leave a room I need to turn the light switch on then off exactly 17 times or my family will die.

Rofl.

 

My misery amuses you?

 

I suspect he assumed you were joking.

I was....



very funny of okey to make jokes about a disease/ disorder.

why not next time make fun of people with aids/ cancer, or mabe the handicapped. also, I heard people with mental disorders make good joke topics. oh wait...



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I have the obsession of figuring out shortest distances between two points. When im walking from point A to B. ill stand at A and figure it out before doing it, and if im with friends and they take a longer way, doesnt make a difference to me, ill take my shortest route.
Also , i have "i hope i didnt forget to...." syndrome



"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murders will foam up about their waist and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"...

 ....and I'll look down and whisper  "no."  

                                                                   - Rorschach

Ooooh yes...

for me the compulsions are berely noticable though, all I do is these.

1. when changing the volume on TV's, stereos, whatever. I have to have the volume level in multiples of three.

2. Bar the case of rule 1. Everything else has to be in multiples of 2.

3. When I'm in a room the doors have to be shut. But if they're not and other people are around I grin and bare it.

4. I often read papers and books upside down when by myself. I actually find it easier to read things upside down. Again I don't do this with people around.

5. Until recently I had to exit a bathroom straight away if the toilet was flushed. Even if it meant me walking straight back in. But I forced myself to stop this.

6. I ALWAYS have to know how much money I have to the penny. I can't rest if I don't know.



Also,

7. I constatly find myself working out the surface areas of objects if given measurements, regardless of if it's needed or not.



I have the volume thing too! The volume must end in a: 0,2,4,5,6,8. My TV in my room doesn't use numbers but bars. Each bar actually has 4 numbers, so the volume for my TV must be on even numbers! Eith ar the start of a bar, or 2 more up. 2 more up would cause it to move to the next bar.



Ooh me too!

1. When I chew, I have to do it in multiples of 16. Even if it's mashed potatoes. If I can just swallow without chewing, this rule is void.

2. The TV volume has to be set in a multiple of two, generally it's on 12...

3. I have to do things equally on one side of my body to another, so if I walk in a room, and my left shoulder hits the door, I have to walk and make my right shoulder hit something with equal force.

4. I can't brush my teeth in sinks, I have to brush my teeth in the bathtub, for some reason, it makes me anxious to not do that.

5. Whenever I go to leave the house, I have to get dressed like I'm going somewhere. I can't just walk to the store looking slack. So that means I have to iron clothes, shower, lotion up, brush my hair, and look put together to go and get a Vitamin water at 8 in the morning.

6. Whenever I walk in the city, I have to walk inside the concrete squares that make up the block two times (each foot hits the square once).

7. I always think I have a dirty nose. Even when I clean my nose out to death, I still constantly rub my nose to make sure that it's clean. Or else I get anxiety when I talk to someone new.

8. I have to brush my teeth in left to right ascending fashion, so first I brush my bottom row, left to right, then the back of the bottom row left to right, then the top row, left to right, gums, and then tongue. If not, pure anxiety.