Right apparently i have OCD pretty bad, dunno how this is but i do, what i want to know is does anyone else have any probs with it, does your partner or family or mates think its hard to live with etc!!?

A few instances of my quirks to get the ball rolling, and believe me this is only a couple of many!!

I have to clean my teeth a specific way, i count the brush strokes and if i make a mistake i have to start again till i do it right, i have seen me late for work because its took me 30mins or more to clean my teeth, proper pissing with blood but i cant stop till i do it right!!

I have to fold my own clothes, make my own bed etc, if anyone else does ill unfold then fold the clothes, same with the bed!!

I have my cds and dvds in alphabetical order, if anyone touches them i have to take them all of the shelf and put them back in order!!

I have to turn my plate 90 degrees to the left before i can start eating my food of it!!

I open jaffa cakes from a certain end, take the packet out, turn it around put it back in the box then open it!!

I have to check every door in the house before bed, if someone else has locked it i will unlock it, open it, shut it then lock it, if i dont do this and go to bed i cant settle or sleep!!

If anything like my deoderant or aftershave is moved on my unit and im in bed and i see its moved i cant settle till i put it back in its correct place!!

Am i really as fucked up as the missus thinks i am?!

Or am i not alone?!

bloody hell, that a serious lot of compulsions

only thing i panic about is have to check all the doors and windows are locked about 10 times before i go to bed and if ive been out i have to check all the cupboards and rooms to make sure no ones hiding there.
Got good reasons for both so dont mind

Uhh well I thought I had some minor ones, but nothing even as close as that.  We have this mirror at work with papers on it and whenever I walk near it I have to touch it, but thats about it here.

Sounds like you actaully have it a decent amount, especially that you mentioned it makes you late for work sometimes.  That is a pretty big one i know, if it actualy affects RL stuff.

I’m so glad he’s posted this. He doesn’t believe me when I tell him he has OCD! He tells ME I’m mad. All the double checking has rubbed off on me though, I must check I have my keys at least a hundred times before I close the door! This could be due to me locking myself out 3 times this year! 

Im a bit like teddy on this one.

I have to check the gas (cooker or heater) about 10 times and check the front & back doors if im going to bed or going out. I even count in my head how many times ive pulled the door hand to check its closed.

And I have to check ive got my phone, wallet, keys, work pass, money on me before i leave the house. again count to five.

Strangely tho if anyone else is in the house I dont bother…...

Poor Vixi, sounds like you got it bad Spon…

All i have it’s that feeling like i’m forgeting something when i leave my house.. just that..

Blimey Spon….that’s some OCD you’ve got there mate Think you should change your Sig to say Order rather then havoc

Can honestly say there’s nothing I have to do in a particular order….possibly because I’m the most disorganized person in the world. The only thing I seem to do is I always seem to do the opposite of what superstition says you should do - without realizing it. I’ll always walk under a ladder, always put the brolly up before leaving the house etc…

Cheers,
SD

SEE!? It’s not ME being a dick.

I used to be the same. Had to double check everything before i went to bed. If the wife had done it, then i had to double check.

But recently, it has all slipped. Dunno why, maybe because of all the weed in my system?

Ok i guess your right, i really am fucked!!

I manage though, im not that bad to put up with!!

Vixi, I think with Spon posting that and being very frank about it shows he knows he has a problem I do exactly the same - when I come in pissed and Mrs SD says I’ve a drink problem I always say it’s bullshit and claim she’s paranoid when I know, deep down, that I do probably drink more then I should It’s my damn mates - they’re bad influences!

Cheers,
SD

Ok here goes.

CD’s, you have nothing. Mine are alphabatised but broken down into category. Singles, albums and compelations. Compelations are in alpebetical by geanra(?). Dance, rock, world, etc. I spend hours regularly checking that all the disc’s are in there cases and if they are not I freak.

Everything has to be symetrical. CD’s go in the middle of the rack, not to one side or the other. Things on the side cabbinet are symetrical, knives forks. Everything. If I tap my left hand I have to tap my right.

It brings balance to the world. Apart from symetry I live like a slob. I forget everything including keys, locking doors, gas. Even on topics I’m not going to read here I open and close them so there are no post headings in bold.

We are all wierd.

[edit](this is my longest post ever)

The missus has just pointed out another that i didnt even realise, its specific to Tc so ill tell you, i have a certain way and method and order to how i read the threads when i come on the forum, i always do it in this order and reply in this way and order!!

Sheesh thanks for that vix, make me a cuppa im fucked!!

TheDeviant - 01 November 2007 10:39 PM

I used to be the same. Had to double check everything before i went to bed. If the wife had done it, then i had to double check.

But recently, it has all slipped. Dunno why, maybe because of all the weed in my system?

lol i was going to say the same thing  

You know those little silver hearts that they scatter on tables at weddings? I always have an uncontrolable urge to place them in grid format. The more there are the bigger the grid. People often ask me if I’m bored and I have to apologise to them but still don’t stop.

Re:D

Spon, I think everyone has a few OCD tendencies. Like some of the others, before I go to bed I have to check the front and back doors twice to make sure they are locked and if it’s air conditioning or furnace time of year all the windows are checked to make sure they are locked. Happens every night - doesn’t matter how drunk I am.

Also like the others, the CDs, DVDs, LPs and cassette tapes (yes, I’m that old) have to be alphabetical order or I go apeshit. Wifey drives me crazy because she will pull several DVDs to watch in the bedroom and not put them back leaving gaps in the cabinet.

Every time I step outside for a cigarette I have to check to make sure both cats are in the house even though I know they didn’t come out with me. (That’s OCD combined with paranoia - both cats spent the first half of life in an apartment and so were declawed. Now that we’re in a townhouse they love to chase other outdoors critters not realizing that a squirrel could kill them never mind the neighborhood raccoons.)

Whenever I set up a computer or A/V system, all the cables have to be dressed and tied off. Dangly wires and anything not neatly tied off will require that it all be pulled apart and put together right.

My underwear, socks and sweatshorts/pants in the dresser drawers have to be folded and rotated so they are all worn the same amount. (Of course that means that every four years I have to replace 21 Jockeys and 21 pairs of socks because they are all worn out.)

You’re not alone…...Willi