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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Dec 18, 2011 21:54:46 GMT -5
Does anybody here have OCD? I do. It pretty much runs in my family with my mom having it really bad. For me, I feel a constant need to touch my face like every 2 minutes. Not because it itches or anything, just...because. Also, I feel the need to repeat myself after saying something. Honestly, having OCD just gets to be insanely annoying and kinda causes people to think that I'm really weird when they first meet me (I AM weird, just not in the way that they think I am).
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Dec 18, 2011 22:27:25 GMT -5
My wife has spats of it once in awhile.
Mainly, if we go to a restaurant she always makes sure the sugar, pepper,salt, etc stuff is all neat and in order. She takes the creamers out of the bowl and rearranges them.
Then I torment her by gently nudging things out of place, or taking the creamer in the bottom for my coffee.
She actually doesn't get why I say she has some OCD tendencies.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Dec 18, 2011 22:50:51 GMT -5
Uh, I would say I have a very, very minor case, but in my instance, everything has to be equal and well-organized.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Dec 18, 2011 22:55:10 GMT -5
I have it with thoughts, no some much physical actions, except having to keep things in my pockets.
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Post by The Line on Dec 18, 2011 22:59:59 GMT -5
nope. I have like, the opposite of it. I don't care about....whatever, I'm leaving.
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Post by J.O.B. Squad on Dec 18, 2011 23:41:42 GMT -5
I def have it and sometimes it sucks like for example I have been wanting the new Stone Cold DVD looked and 3 stores and still not found it on DVD and it is driving me nuts to the point that I won't let it go till I finally get it.
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Dec 18, 2011 23:54:24 GMT -5
Some tendencies at least. Some days though it is pretty rough. Locking the door is the worse thing in the world for me. I obsessive over whether I remembered to lock it or not and often check 3-4 times before I can leave. Even on occasion getting a few blocks away and coming home.
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Dec 19, 2011 0:39:22 GMT -5
Yes. I was formally diagnosed at the age of 21 with one of the worst cases of OCD my therapist had ever seen. I have a crippling germ phobia, and wear medical gloves on a near constant basis. I'm on a disability pension from the government because it renders me unable to work, and I only leave the house a few times a month to do my shopping, and after I come home, I do a meticulous half-hour scrub down of my hands before I handle any of my personal things. I'll also change my clothes I happened to sit anywhere or bump into anything while I was outdoors.
On top of that, and completely separate from the germ phobia, I have another set of obsessions and compulsions that also deal with repeated, intrusive negative thoughts that just never seem to go away and haunt my every waking minute. They revolve around the usage of negative words and phrases, which is why I browse the internet with one of those strong parental filters installed into my browser (yes, even on these very boards, sadly). And because most people are here because the enjoy professional wrestling in one form or another, yes, watching that on TV is incredibly difficult all considered, but I haven't given up on trying. I've tried medication and it didn't work out for me. I'm currently in therapy and it's progressing very slowly, so we'll see what happens.
Coming out with this information publicly is never easy because you know people aren't going to understand it, and there's no real way to get them to understand it. It just is what it is.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Dec 19, 2011 0:46:44 GMT -5
Yes. I was formally diagnosed at the age of 21 with one of the worst cases of OCD my therapist had ever seen. I have a crippling germ phobia, and wear medical gloves on a near constant basis. I'm on a disability pension from the government because it renders me unable to work, and I only leave the house a few times a month to do my shopping, and after I come home, I do a meticulous half-hour scrub down of my hands before I handle any of my personal things. I'll also change my clothes I happened to sit anywhere or bump into anything while I was outdoors. On top of that, and completely separate from the germ phobia, I have another set of obsessions and compulsions that also deal with repeated, intrusive negative thoughts that just never seem to go away and haunt my every waking minute. They revolve around the usage of negative words and phrases, which is why I browse the internet with one of those strong parental filters installed into my browser (yes, even on these very boards, sadly). And because most people are here because the enjoy professional wrestling in one form or another, yes, watching that on TV is incredibly difficult all considered, but I haven't given up on trying. I've tried medication and it didn't work out for me. I'm currently in therapy and it's progressing very slowly, so we'll see what happens. Coming out with this information publicly is never easy because you know people aren't going to understand it, and there's no real way to get them to understand it. It just is what it is. Wow. Thank you for sharing this. I really hope that the therapy does help. Just stay with it and don't let your tendencies get you down. I have let my OCD tendencies really cloud my opinion of myself before and it only leads to bad things. It's cliche, I know, but the best way to get past those negative thoughts is to just focus on your positives and keep your head up. |
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Post by Alex Shelley on Dec 19, 2011 1:12:33 GMT -5
I also have a formal diagnosis and it has really disrupted my life. I'm finally getting to the point where it's at least better. The intrusive thoughts are the absolute worst part and something I'm very, very reluctant to ever open up about because I don't think many people without OCD will ever truly understand the nature of intrusive thoughts. I have massive hoarding tendencies and have, at times in the past, been living in legit hoarding situations. Among other various things that are all very typical of OCD. Mine is a pretty gnarly case.
Having OCD tendencies isn't the same as having a legitimate case of OCD. What I always say is that everybody has obsessions and everybody has compulsions, but having obsessive compulsive disorder is different. If anybody suspects they have it I recommend looking up the symptoms and talking to a psychologist.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Dec 19, 2011 1:38:28 GMT -5
Why yes I do have it. Thank you for noticing.  I had it insanely bad when I was in high school. I won't go into details, but it wound up getting me locked away into a few behavioral health facilities for several months. Today, I have cleanliness troubles just because it takes on average about an hour to take a shower.(No that rhyming wasn't intentional but it is almost totally unavoidable when I'm trying to explain to people just the extent of my OCD.) Let's just say there are times when I go several days without showering, but when I do shower, I get my ass clean and shiny enough to eat a stack of pancakes off of. |
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Post by 1 on Dec 19, 2011 1:42:44 GMT -5
I also have a formal diagnosis and it has really disrupted my life. I'm finally getting to the point where it's at least better. The intrusive thoughts are the absolute worst part and something I'm very, very reluctant to ever open up about because I don't think many people without OCD will ever truly understand the nature of intrusive thoughts. I have massive hoarding tendencies and have, at times in the past, been living in legit hoarding situations. Among other various things that are all very typical of OCD. Mine is a pretty gnarly case. Having OCD tendencies isn't the same as having a legitimate case of OCD. What I always say is that everybody has obsessions and everybody has compulsions, but having obsessive compulsive disorder is different. If anybody suspects they have it I recommend looking up the symptoms and talking to a psychologist. Is it called "Pure O"  ? Yeah, I feel your pain. People will never understand what it's like. |
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Post by jobber2thestars on Dec 19, 2011 1:54:33 GMT -5
I was diagnosed with OCD about four years ago, but am now managing it pretty well. I have a major fear of disease, specifically the HIV and AIDS virus, and am terrified of needles. My fear of disease went so far as to prevent me from leaving the house and eating. In fact, I lost around 30lbs. when my OCD was at it's worse due to being afraid that eating something could cause me to get sick. I also have physical tics, which are pretty noticeable (a head and neck twitch; hand shakes; vocal noises), which I admit are a bit embarrassing. I also used to go through bottles of Purell like they were nothing. This caused the skin on my hands to fall off, leaving me with red, cracked skin. I also have the habit of hiding things out of fear that my touching them will cause something bad to happen to someone else. The best way to deal with OCD is to make sure you take to a doctor and take your medication.
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Dec 19, 2011 2:08:20 GMT -5
Yes. I was formally diagnosed at the age of 21 with one of the cases of OCD my therapist had ever seen. I have a crippling germ phobia, and wear medical gloves on a near constant basis. I'm on a disability pension from the government because it renders me unable to work, and I only leave the house a few times a month to do my shopping, and after I come home, I do a meticulous half-hour scrub down of my hands before I handle any of my personal things. I'll also change my clothes I happened to sit anywhere or bump into anything while I was outdoors. On top of that, and completely separate from the germ phobia, I have another set of obsessions and compulsions that also deal with repeated, intrusive thoughts that just never seem to and haunt my every waking minute. They revolve around the usage of words and phrases, which is why I browse the internet with one of those strong parental filters installed into my browser (yes, even on these very boards, sadly). And because most people are here because the enjoy professional wrestling in one form or another, yes, watching that on TV is incredibly difficult all considered, but I haven't given up on trying. I've tried medication and it didn't work out for me. I'm currently in therapy and it's progressing very slowly, so we'll see what happens. Coming out with this information publicly is never easy because you know people aren't going to understand it, and there's no real way to get them to understand it. It just is what it is. Wow. Thank you for sharing this. I really hope that the therapy does help. Just stay with it and don't let your tendencies get you down. I have let my OCD tendencies really cloud my opinion of myself before and it only leads to things. It's , I know, but the best way to get past those thoughts is to just focus on your positives and keep your head up. Thank you. I'm actually doing better now than I was before. Around the time of my diagnosis, I was in a very, very dark place, and doing some very unspeakable things and living under some pretty deplorable living conditions just because of my OCD. I was looking at some serious time in a psychiatric ward, and it was only because of a great deal of inner strength on my part that that didn't happen. I also have a formal diagnosis and it has really disrupted my life. I'm finally getting to the point where it's at least better. The intrusive thoughts are the absolute part and something I'm very, very reluctant to ever open up about because I don't think many people without OCD will ever truly understand the nature of intrusive thoughts. I have massive hoarding tendencies and have, at times in the past, been living in legit hoarding situations. Among other various things that are all very typical of OCD. Mine is a pretty gnarly case. Having OCD tendencies isn't the same as having a legitimate case of OCD. What I always say is that everybody has obsessions and everybody has compulsions, but having obsessive compulsive disorder is different. If anybody suspects they have it I recommend looking up the symptoms and talking to a psychologist. I know exactly what you mean. I would NEVER share the full extent of my intrusive thoughts, as well as the general history of my OCD, because there's no way your average person could understand. They can't understand it until they've had it, and I wouldn't wish OCD on my worst enemy. I was diagnosed with OCD about four years ago, but am now managing it pretty well. I have a major fear of disease, specifically the HIV and AIDS virus, and am terrified of needles. My fear of disease went so far as to prevent me from leaving the house and eating. In fact, I lost around 30lbs. when my OCD was at it's due to being afraid that eating something could cause me to get . I also have physical tics, which are pretty noticeable (a head and neck twitch; hand shakes; vocal noises), which I admit are a bit . I also used to go through bottles of Purell like they were nothing. This caused the skin on my hands to fall off, leaving me with red, cracked skin. I also have the habit of hiding things out of fear that my touching them will cause something to happen to someone else. The best way to deal with OCD is to make sure you take to a doctor and take your medication. Yup, been there too. At my worst, I went through a quart of hand sanitizer in under a month, and a half gallon of antibacterial soap in under a week. Scary times. |
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Post by Alex Shelley on Dec 19, 2011 4:39:33 GMT -5
I also have a formal diagnosis and it has really disrupted my life. I'm finally getting to the point where it's at least better. The intrusive thoughts are the absolute worst part and something I'm very, very reluctant to ever open up about because I don't think many people without OCD will ever truly understand the nature of intrusive thoughts. I have massive hoarding tendencies and have, at times in the past, been living in legit hoarding situations. Among other various things that are all very typical of OCD. Mine is a pretty gnarly case. Having OCD tendencies isn't the same as having a legitimate case of OCD. What I always say is that everybody has obsessions and everybody has compulsions, but having obsessive compulsive disorder is different. If anybody suspects they have it I recommend looking up the symptoms and talking to a psychologist. Is it called "Pure O" ? Yeah, I feel your pain. People will never understand what it's like. From what I understand Pure O refers to having only obsessions and not compulsions - but I definitely have compulsions too. And some things I'm not entirely sure what to classify. A lot of the intrusive thoughts are compulsions for me, while some are obsessions. And a lot of compulsions can turn into obsessions, or are based on obsessions. So it's all a mixed jumbled bag. The obsessions are easier to talk about I guess, because on some level they can make sense. What doesn't make sense is the fact that I walk through grocery stores touching pretty much every single item for no reason other than my brain screams at me that I need to touch it, and if I don't, there's a good chance that I'll start to panic and have to go back to touch it. It doesn't make sense that if I turn in a circle, I have to "unturn" myself the other direction and if I don't, I'll feel off balance and, again, start to panic. It doesn't make sense that I get literally stuck sometimes because my brain is telling me to repeat the same motion over and over and I can't stop and have to either wait until it ends, or rip myself away and try my damnedest to distract myself so I won't panic. It doesn't make sense that if I mess up typing a word, I have to erase the entire word and rewrite it from the start, because it's not "right" otherwise. And those are just some of my compulsions. I'm sure there are ones that I'm not even aware that I have because they're so ingrained into my daily routines. None of that has any sort of justification to it, so it's hard to explain it all without making myself sound crazy. Which, honestly, I am. It's also hard to explain to people that I can't just turn all of that off - it's not a choice, there's no off switch. I can't just will it all away, that is who I am, and that is how my brain works. I'm medicated, but that doesn't make it go away - it lessens certain things and lowers the anxiety, which REALLY helps in a lot of ways. But the obsessions and compulsions still exist. |
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Dec 19, 2011 5:41:48 GMT -5
Is it called "Pure O" ? Yeah, I feel your pain. People will never understand what it's like. From what I understand Pure O refers to having only obsessions and not compulsions - but I definitely have compulsions too. And some things I'm not entirely sure what to classify. A lot of the intrusive thoughts are compulsions for me, while some are obsessions. And a lot of compulsions can turn into obsessions, or are based on obsessions. So it's all a mixed jumbled bag. The obsessions are easier to talk about I guess, because on some level they can make sense. What doesn't make sense is the fact that I walk through grocery stores touching pretty much every single item for no reason other than my brain screams at me that I need to touch it, and if I don't, there's a good chance that I'll start to panic and have to go back to touch it. It doesn't make sense that if I turn in a circle, I have to "unturn" myself the other direction and if I don't, I'll feel off balance and, again, start to panic. It doesn't make sense that I get literally stuck sometimes because my brain is telling me to repeat the same motion over and over and I can't stop and have to either wait until it ends, or rip myself away and try my est to distract myself so I won't panic. It doesn't make sense that if I up typing a word, I have to erase the entire word and rewrite it from the start, because it's not "right" otherwise. And those are just some of my compulsions. I'm sure there are ones that I'm not even aware that I have because they're so ingrained into my daily routines. None of that has any sort of justification to it, so it's hard to explain it all without making myself sound crazy. Which, honestly, I am. It's also hard to explain to people that I can't just turn all of that off - it's not a choice, there's no off switch. I can't just will it all away, that is who I am, and that is how my brain works. I'm medicated, but that doesn't make it - it lessens certain things and lowers the anxiety, which REALLY helps in a lot of ways. But the obsessions and compulsions still exist. I think that is SO key in understanding OCD, though. The proverbial "switch" only goes in one direction, and once it's been flipped on, there's no turning it back off again. You're stuck in the "on" position for life. The best possible way I could explain it to a non-sufferer, and even this isn't really satisfactory, is imagine your brain's "fight or flight" response being triggered by whatever the obsession is, and this response just gets worse and worse and worse until you finally give in and perform the compulsion to ease it. I've gotten anxiety headaches that felt like my head was literally about to split in two. It's that bad. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2011 11:33:12 GMT -5
Im the exact opposite...I strive on disorder...I sometimes cause confusion in relationships and other instances just to see how it unfolds and to try different technicques of solving the issue. I work in IT and intentionally break things just to fix them. Stagnant normality scares the hell out of me.
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Post by BR329 on Dec 19, 2011 11:42:52 GMT -5
I haven't been diagnosed with OCD or even seen a doctor but sometimes I just start counting to 30 out of nowhere. Usually I tap my fingers and or toes on something like a table or the floor 30 times as well. Anybody else have this with OCD or I'm looking at another disorder?
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? Yeah, I feel your pain. People will never understand what it's like.
