Do you have OCD tendencies?

I believe my OCD tendencies are related to ADD, and I catch myself double-checking door locks, and driving around the block to double-check my garage door closing all the way. Could also be that I’m always rushed to get somewhere…

this is just weird

Tendencies? No. Flaming, full-on OCD? Maybe.

Haha, I don’t suppose you’d like to share?

Counting your steps and not stepping on cracks? Buddy how you get through your day. Wow. Buts that’s cool, I have heard of this problem. It sounds like it can run your life

That was when I was little, I said I got over that one. I am sorry for the people who are actually diagnosed with real and severe OCD and it does run their lives, it must be very hard.

What’s the opposite called? I must have that.

Instead of paying attention to real work in front of me, I’m responding to Fluther.

Maybe you are obbsessive compulsive about fluther…? :P

I have to lay pencils parallel on my desk for tests. I always check my door locks and garage door closing. My volume on car stereo has to be an even number.I But perhaps weirdest (you will know what ok I’m talking about if you use
iChat) when you pick a buddy from the list it highlights their name. I hate to see the highlighted name after I start the chat. So I scroll to the bottom of the list, pick the bottom name, and scroll back up so the highlighted name is not visible

I have obsessions (shoes, mostly)......and at times get really odd compulsions (like buying a Hello Kitty AK47 if I could), but OCD? nah!

I am very weird about my jewelery, I will wear it untill it accidently falls off. Its too bad because I have a ton of really nice rings that I won’t wear because I think it will give me bad luck. I’m also very weird about reading things, I can’t just read part of anything, I have to read the entire thing, so I won’t use the tv guide because it usually only shows half of the description and I have to hit the info button and read it all, it takes forever to find something to watch because of this. If I pick up a book I won’t put it down untill I finish the entire thing regardless of how long it is or how boring. But i can read incredibly fast now because of this.

Cheebdragon, I too have to finish reading things such as the tv descriptions. I do not always read novels all in one go but a lot of the time. I do feel I have to read a whole webpage or brochure or things like that all the way through. Also, I really hate skipping songs if I have decided to listen to an album. I make sure I have enough time to listen to the whole album all the way through because I hate stopping somewhere in the middle. I feel as though I haven’t been fair to the songs I haven’t had a chance to listen to.

I do the “don’t step on cracks” thing, and my room, car, and booksack have to be organized EXACTLY like I like them or I will freak out.

I’m a lot less OCD than I used to be, though. I seem to have slowly gotten more and more functional and less picky through the years.

Hmm lets see…I am germophobic in respect to personal hygiene. So I use gloves for dishwashing, any type of cleaning. I often shower twice a day. I wash my hands every 30 minutes. I wash my face every 1–2 hours. I don’t ever open public doors if I don’t have to, sometimes I pull up my sleeve so I, myself, have no contact with the door. I have a very strict ritual of washing my hands in public bathrooms, first i take some paper towels from the dispenser, turn on faucet with hands, wash hands for 45 seconds, close faucet through the paper towel i had taken out earlier. Use same paper towel to pull out more for drying my hands. Use the latter paper towel to open bathroom door to exit.

I am very observant of other people’s personal hygiene too. One of my roommates would only shower once in three days. I couldn’t take it. I didn’t keep a watch out but I just always knew whether she had showered or not. I have been known to ask people whether they showered that day before they hug me. I have been known to refuse shaking anyone’s hands if I am confident that they did not clean them after recently eating or something. I probably sound crazy now but it’s really not as bad as it sounds.

you crazy people stay away from me!

nahh-h-h-h-h-h… j/k.

y’know I lurve ya!

@ rob, well if you didn’t shower today, i promise i will stay away :) :P

I have to crack all of my knuckles everytime I just do one even if it happens by accident. Also I used to not think this was but in a before question someone said, always having to put the toilet paper upwards so the paper is on top. I do it all the time at friends houses, at restaurants, just anywhere I see it.

btw: I love how you put monk in your topics(:

@PnL I know you trully believe in your ritual, but if you look under the microscope, you’ll find out a great number of microbes running around on the paper towel you are using to avoid your body contact in public places. Think about it for a minute, where does this paper comes comes from, yeah machines roll it, but is it really surgical hygienically proofed? you would need to carry your own set of disposable gloves for you to avoid all these germs crawling on your hands onto your face and so on…....yucky!!

Please don’t get so obsessed about cleanliness, I know it’s important. I know you are concerned about your health, believe I am too, but if is your turn to get sick, you will. It will come thru the least expected way and boom!! hit you between your eyes…........you will say: “where did that come from?” I had all the ducks in a row and look…..

Prayer will also help you get through difficult times, meditation will help you relax your spirit, your soul, your mind, your body so you can have a better control of it. I’m not suggesting I can control every cell in my body, but give it a try, with time and practice, you’ll develop a good habit and things will change for the better.

Distractions are all part of our lives…............my worst distraction are sexy women….....lol
But seriously, if your distraction is eating your lunch, you got to do something about it or else you’ll end up losing your sleep, your health, etc.; all of us have filters we develop in the course of the environment we thrive in, some of us can function better than others in spite of them, to some of they are the worst nightmares.
One way I have been been able to get rid of some distractions like noise: tv, radio, ppl talking excessively, etc., is to talk to myself and tell myself that as the noise that I am listening around me it was distracting and not allowing me to concentrate, now it is actually helping me concentrate better and I can function and filter all that crap. A good book on the subject is: “What to say when you talk to yourself” By Shad Hemstteter.
I hope it helps!! sayonara

I talk to myself all the time…...like full conversations too….

hmmmm…..interesting! what do you say?

There’s this packet of paperwork we use at my job. Someone else prepares them and I mail them out. They have four “sign here” flags. Every single time I mail them out, I remove all 4 flags, change them to matching colors, and line them up so that they stick off the edge of the paper at exactly the same length.

I have a checklist when I leave someplace. I always check for “wallet, cell phone, keys, iPod, camera” and I have to recite it out loud as I feel and check in my bag for each thing. My friend just stands there and looks at me funny when I do it then when I’m done she’s like “You’re so weird.”

who doesn’t! 12345

Yeah, but I have OCD. :P Emphasis on the “obsessive”. Honestly, I think I have a fair amount of control over the compulsion thing, so not a lot of rituals.

Some things.. I usually have to get back up after going to bed to make sure I locked everything or I will obsessively think about someone breaking in after I fall asleep. I try to keep the checking down to once after having gone to bed.

I randomly find myself counting things.. number of steps, how many seconds something takes, whatever.

I have a set way I like to do most things. I find what I consider to be the most efficient way to do something and do it exactly like that nearly every single time.

Even if I just put them in my bag, I have to stop and double-check that my keys are with me, either when leaving the house or car, just to make sure I don’t get locked out.

I could be SO germophobic, being a biologist has not helped in this regard.. I’m only too aware of all the microbes out there. I don’t let myself get too freaky about it and try to remind myself that humans lived a very long time without modern sanitation. I could be a total freak about germs, though.. it’s a fight to stay sane.