What's Your OCD?

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  • Illona88
    Illona88 Posts: 903 Member
    People saying " I am OCD ... ".

    That is grammatically incorrect.

    It is I HAVE OCD or I AM obsessive compulsive.

    You're not a disorder.
  • JusticeGirl25
    JusticeGirl25 Posts: 703 Member
    I wash my hands frequently. Don't like to see people touch a door handle at a bar or restaurant then they don't wash their hands. Yeah, you could bring some hand santizer with you, but hand washing is better.
  • shrinkingWITS
    shrinkingWITS Posts: 108
    Yeah there is a difference between having an actual disorder (which is really not fun at all, btw) and just being anal about certain things.
  • The_Outlaw_Torn
    The_Outlaw_Torn Posts: 67 Member
    I frequently check the doors to see if they are locked before going to bed...even if I have checked 5 minutes prior. Keys on my key rings have to go from smallest to largest and all have the teeth pointing the same direction.
  • KlaJWolf
    KlaJWolf Posts: 27 Member
    I have to bury my victims exactly 7ft under.

    Why do u keep showing up on my threads to make me look bad? Dude, we get it, your abs are like they were cut out of a magazine <--see what I did there lol
    Because OCD .
    BAHAHHA... Hilarious!

    My OCD ....I turn my shower know 3 times before I leave it on... not sure why... weird.
  • creech6317
    creech6317 Posts: 869 Member
    I am a picture straightener, I will do it at restaurants, stores, doctors offices, etc. There is a restaurant here in town that I can't eat at because they have the pictures fastened to the walls and they are crooked. I know because I tried to straighten them and it bugged me so much I couldn't stay.

    I have all my movie DVD's arranged in alphabetical order, and all TV series are together and alphabatized. My friends will rearrange them when they are over and then call and tell me while I am at work because they know it will drive me nuts until I can get home and fix it.
  • pippywillow
    pippywillow Posts: 253 Member
    I count when I run, walk, jog, bike, swim, etc., but only when I'm alone. Sometimes I want to slap myself and say STOP IT! I just can't help it. I count steps jogged, pedals turned, tiles on the floor, stairs, cars, whatever is around. Sadly, I know that 20 right legged, pedals on my bike equals 1 tenth of a mile. The average basement stairs have 11-12 steps. 11 steps running equals 1 'dot' on my treadmill progress around the fake track. It takes 302 steps to get up my favorite hill while trail running/hiking. Blah blah blah. I know it doesn't bother anyone since I do it in my head when I'm alone, but it does annoy me sometimes. It bothers me even more if I randomly stop counting then have to start up again. Ugh!

    I thought I was the only one who did that. When I was kid I would count every single step I took. I would always start out on my left foot and end on my right, or stand in place and take an extra step when I didn't. It was really hard to stop.

    Now that I've started running I catch myself doing it again. It's a tough habit to break. Even if I try to think of something else I'll still be counting in the back of my head.

    I also have a thing for even numbers. I won't leave the volume on my car stereo on an odd number, I tend to eat a even number of something.

    I wish I had OCD about housework.
  • rebbylicious
    rebbylicious Posts: 621 Member
    Cabinets, drawers & closets must be closed - I have 4 kids that constantly leave these things open.
  • DalekBrittany
    DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
    "My OCD" is people saying "I am so OCD" or "What's your OCD?"

    "What's your obsessive-compulsive disorder?" Yeah, makes sense. "I am sooo obsessive-compulsive disorder." You can't BE a disorder. You HAVE a disorder. And on that note, people who very clearly do not suffer from the condition saying "Oh I'm so OCD" which makes a mockery of the entire disorder and the people who actually do suffer from it.
  • sbbhbm
    sbbhbm Posts: 1,312 Member
    Things need to be perfectly parallel or perpendicular. When I lay out my yoga mat, I will not use it until it is perfectly parallel with my couch. If I look down and see that it has shifted, I stop what I'm doing and line it back up. Crooked pictures on walls drive me insane. I cannot even fall asleep if I feel like I'm crooked on my bed.
  • nope31
    nope31 Posts: 174
    Omg
    Just reading all of your issues is giving me Anxiety
    So many have so many other problems other than eating.
    Real problems. :frown:
  • chelseascounter
    chelseascounter Posts: 1,283 Member
    I have to put down things on my left side. Ex. 1 at the computer if I have a drink, or holding my cellphone, anything, I have to set it down on the left side. Ex. 2 when I'm walking, going up stairs ect. my left foot has to go first. If I walk over a sidewalk crack my left foot has to go over it, not my right foot. Someone told me this is probably ocd, at home if I don't finish finish a water bottle, I leave it open, and forget about it until the next day, the next day I won't finish it. You can't make me drink it if it's been left open. :embarassed:
  • mrsfurby14
    mrsfurby14 Posts: 181 Member
    my OCD is i have to have my clothes a certain way in the closet so no one else puts up the clothes but ME b/c if its not done right i'll take the clothes off the hangers and do it over myself.
  • nickyfm
    nickyfm Posts: 1,214 Member
    Wearing my HRM when working out. I HAVE TO, otherwise in my head, the workout didn't count. lol.

    Also brushing my teeth the second I wake up, Doing the supermarket shopping AFTER the fruit market (can never do the supermarket first or it feels unnatural, lol), needing to eat proats every morning and always needing to work out 5 days a week.

    K i'm a bit crazy, lol
  • teddabod
    teddabod Posts: 222 Member
    I NEED CARPETING!!!!

    I have to rub my feet all over the carpet... get 'em warm....

    Before I fall asleep I also rub my feet in my blanket... makes a "Shwoosh shwoosh shwoosh" sound...
  • elledeery
    elledeery Posts: 866
    1) My shirts have to be hung according to sleeve length starting with sleeveless and working up to a long sleeve.
    2) If I'm walking next to someone I have to be on their left side
    3) My cutlery and drink are always to my right
    4) I can't sleep facing doors or closets, I need to be facing the wall
    5) I always use the left burners on my stove unless I absolutely have to use the right ones
    6) I enter the shower the same way I entered, never opposing sides
    7) If I light a candle it has to be dead centre on my coffee table or it feels out of place and untidy
    8) I only eat one food item at a time starting with the smallest and working my way up to the biggest portion
    9) My towels have to be stacked by size, if one sticks out of the pile uneven I will take it out and reposition it in the pile.
    10) When grocery shopping I have to start to the left, work my way across the back then up and down each aisle until I'm back to where I've begun and I'm ready for checkout!
    11) My money has to be sorted in my wallet according to value smallest to largest, all bills have to be faces forward and upright.
  • GTAFrank
    GTAFrank Posts: 730 Member
    I am an organization FREAK! :frown: From my cupboards, sock drawer, office, gun bench, garage.. everything has to be lined up perfectly, stored in containers, nested, labeled, straightened etc. The women I have been with loved it... to me it's a curse lol
  • NomadicFlame
    NomadicFlame Posts: 74
    Stack loose change face up and in size order. Always make sure place / drink mats are parrallel with the edge of the table.
  • IronMikeFox
    IronMikeFox Posts: 458
    I have severe OCD. It is no joke. It can totally destroy your life. It drives me nuts when people use OCD as a synonym for being anal, being dedicated to something, being conscientious about something, or having a habit. It is a debilitating disorder that robs you of your free will and imprisons you.

    That being said, I know that was not the vein of this thread. I just wanted to throw that out there because many people don't understand that it is an actual medical problem. Carry on! :drinker:
  • _Tink_
    _Tink_ Posts: 3,845 Member
    I can't handle having things askew or in the wrong places in my kitchen cabinets. All the spice jars (identical) must be facing perfectly forward. The handles to my measuring cups go to the right. Bowls need to be aligned within their stack. Coffee cups, travel mugs, and water bottles must stay in their rows and are not allowed to co-mingle. Drives me nuts when hubby puts things out of place!
  • sparkly86
    sparkly86 Posts: 520 Member
    cannot touch paper/cardboard after washing my hands...makes me nervous. have to write with 0.5 pencil on a perfect piece of paper, which entails good texture, thickness, and color...i know.
  • GTAFrank
    GTAFrank Posts: 730 Member
    I can't handle having things askew or in the wrong places in my kitchen cabinets. All the spice jars (identical) must be facing perfectly forward. The handles to my measuring cups go to the right. Bowls need to be aligned within their stack. Coffee cups, travel mugs, and water bottles must stay in their rows and are not allowed to co-mingle. Drives me nuts when hubby puts things out of place!

    I find this so HOT lol
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    When I do dishes by hand, I have to follow this order:
    SIlverware
    Cups
    Bowls
    Plates
    Tupperware
    Pots and Pans.
    Damn, my dish-washing twin! Fortunately I have a dishwasher.... which I load every other slot first and then come back and fill the middle slots only as needed.
    My money has to be sorted in my wallet according to value smallest to largest, all bills have to be faces forward and upright.
    Slight difference, I put mine in upside-down due to a superstition from my Dad. Just like you're slower walking on your hands, the money is supposed to be slower to leave your wallet. <awkward pause> Eh, it's not crazier than the rest of you crackpots! j/k

    I never had actual OCD/OCPD, but I used to have a whole bunch of "ways" that I've slowly worked on getting rid of. The only major one left is the certain numbers ending with '0' or '5' (TV/radio volume, workout min/cals, etc.) Today for example, I deliberately ended my workout cals with a '1' to break this"way". Volumes I now alternate between even and odd numbers that don't with '0' or '5' as my own weak attempt at 'aversion therapy'.
  • orangebuttercat
    orangebuttercat Posts: 143 Member
    I have listened to the same song at least once a day since November 13,1976.
    13,388 days in a row.

    If i missed a day, id probably cease to exist.
  • Fiercely_Me
    Fiercely_Me Posts: 481 Member
    I'm a very laid back person, but I can't stand for the toilet paper to be under instead of over on the toilet paper roll. Toilet paper must be over!

    And I hate when people leave cabinets/drawers open.

    And I guess I am obsessive about cleaning off gym equipment/benches/mats/spinning bikes too. Especially if it's drenched in sweat before I use it
  • onwarddownward
    onwarddownward Posts: 1,683 Member
    Lists. I love lists.

    They compensate for my crappy memory.
  • slkehl
    slkehl Posts: 3,801 Member
    I CANNOT wear blue on blue! Meaning that I can't wear a blue top with blue jeans, no matter how different the shades are from each other. It just looks horrible to me.
  • DalekBrittany
    DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
    I have listened to the same song at least once a day since November 13,1976.
    13,388 days in a row.

    If i missed a day, id probably cease to exist.

    I am really curious about what this song is.
  • orangebuttercat
    orangebuttercat Posts: 143 Member
    dancing queen by abba..

    yeah i know..
  • onwarddownward
    onwarddownward Posts: 1,683 Member
    I count when I run, walk, jog, bike, swim, etc., but only when I'm alone. Sometimes I want to slap myself and say STOP IT! I just can't help it. I count steps jogged, pedals turned, tiles on the floor, stairs, cars, whatever is around. Sadly, I know that 20 right legged, pedals on my bike equals 1 tenth of a mile. The average basement stairs have 11-12 steps. 11 steps running equals 1 'dot' on my treadmill progress around the fake track. It takes 302 steps to get up my favorite hill while trail running/hiking. Blah blah blah. I know it doesn't bother anyone since I do it in my head when I'm alone, but it does annoy me sometimes. It bothers me even more if I randomly stop counting then have to start up again. Ugh!

    I do this when I swim. I don't count laps, I count arm strokes. Makes me nuts. But I can't seem to stop.

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