Your OCD

[Quaxar]

First off: I have no diagnosed OCD, when I slip and say I have it's because I'm too lazy to type "I have some mildly compulsive behavior patterns and quirks"...

Anyway, I prefer if my volume controls and whatever are on certain numbers. Those ending in 0, 3, 5 and 8 are fine, if possible in any way I avoid using any other ones but I think I can stand them if necessary. Same applies for symmetry.
And then I have my most severe OCD-like thing, washing. If I touch anything outside my own room or a person I have a strong urge to wash my hands, if it's something I know many people have touched like those handles in the underground I have to wash before being able to touch my skin again... then again if it comes to eating with these hands I'm relatively okay with it. Food trumps bacterias.

 

[HerrBobo]

I hate statements like this.
Everyone is not OCD on some level. That sentence itself doesn't even make sense, but regardless of that, it's not true. Think about it, if everyone had it, it wouldn't be a disorder. Everyone has obsessions and compulsions but, no, not to the degree of OCD.

Yep. Actual OCD is a terrible thing to have. To trivialize it the way so many people do nowadays "OMG i am liek so OCD" is really a blood-boiling thing.

Having minor compulsions is not OCD by any stretch of the imagination.

The above posts reflect my own feelings.

OCD is a new "cool" disorder that anyone a can used in an attempt to claw onto some individuality. I feel sorry for these kinds of people; they clearly have alot lacking in there lives.

 

[imp-caretaker]

I always jank the door before going to bed and check it twice that it is REALLY locked... I have no idea why..
If I don't then I can't sleep

 

[Direwolf750]

Everyone is OCD on some level

I hate statements like this.
Everyone is not OCD on some level. That sentence itself doesn't even make sense, but regardless of that, it's not true. Think about it, if everyone had it, it wouldn't be a disorder. Everyone has obsessions and compulsions but, no, not to the degree of OCD.

The point of this comment is that everyone has little things that bug them that don;t make sense, not litteral ocd, seriously...

the sound of rubbing paper on dirt

 

[Tartarga]

"This desk has a smudge on it! It must be cleaned at once." I have destroyed many erasers because of this.

 

[Rasputin1]

Pretty much this

Spoiler

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Everyone is OCD on some level

I hate statements like this.
Everyone is not OCD on some level. That sentence itself doesn't even make sense, but regardless of that, it's not true. Think about it, if everyone had it, it wouldn't be a disorder. Everyone has obsessions and compulsions but, no, not to the degree of OCD.

The point of this comment is that everyone has little things that bug them that don;t make sense, not litteral ocd, seriously...

the sound of rubbing paper on dirt

I know what he meant. It needed correction, especially because some people actually with the disorder could take serious offence.

 

[Marter]

My video game collection. Everything must stay perfect. I've got it all catalogued, alphabetical by system, and I know which games do not have everything any more, so that I can replace them.

 

[khaimera]

Everyone is OCD on some level

I hate statements like this.
Everyone is not OCD on some level. That sentence itself doesn't even make sense, but regardless of that, it's not true. Think about it, if everyone had it, it wouldn't be a disorder. Everyone has obsessions and compulsions but, no, not to the degree of OCD.

Time to play devil's advocate since I know a fair deal about psychology. Given our current diagnostic system, you are right, not everyoen has the debilitating set of symptoms known as OCD. I also agree that people use the label so often that the actual disorder is being trivialized. Most people fail to realize the O part of the disorder, the obsessions. Without them, one is just quirky, or likes to have things organized in a certain way, not a disorder.

Now to stop agreeing with you. I belive that all metal illness shoudl be diagnosed on a dimensional and not categorical basis. This means that everyone lies somewhere on the OCD line, from almost no characteristics to full blown life ruining condition. For example, how sad do you need to be to be diagnosed with clinical depression? What if you only feel depressed once in a while? Until we change how mental illness is diagnosed, the system will be flawed. So one could argue that everyone has some level of OCD.

And yes I have legitimately diagnosed mental illness for my career. I'm biased on the topic though becuase I'm an anti diagnosis radical.

OT: I used to have compulsions, no obsessions, and no compulsions anymore.

 

[Layzor]

Whenever I drink from a can of beer I poke my toungue into it slighty.

 

[Rainboq]

EVEN NUMBERS! I NEEDS 'EM!

 

[Miffmoff]

Symmetry

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Everyone is OCD on some level

I hate statements like this.
Everyone is not OCD on some level. That sentence itself doesn't even make sense, but regardless of that, it's not true. Think about it, if everyone had it, it wouldn't be a disorder. Everyone has obsessions and compulsions but, no, not to the degree of OCD.

Time to play devil's advocate since I know a fair deal about psychology. Given our current diagnostic system, you are right, not everyoen has the debilitating set of symptoms known as OCD. I also agree that people use the label so often that the actual disorder is being trivialized. Most people fail to realize the O part of the disorder, the obsessions. Without them, one is just quirky, or likes to have things organized in a certain way, not a disorder.

Now to stop agreeing with you. I belive that all metal illness shoudl be diagnosed on a dimensional and not categorical basis. This means that everyone lies somewhere on the OCD line, from almost no characteristics to full blown life ruining condition. For example, how sad do you need to be to be diagnosed with clinical depression? What if you only feel depressed once in a while? Until we change how mental illness is diagnosed, the system will be flawed. So one could argue that everyone has some level of OCD.

And yes I have legitimately diagnosed mental illness for my career. I'm biased on the topic though becuase I'm an anti diagnosis radical.

OT: I used to have compulsions, no obsessions, and no compulsions anymore.

I think that's a fair statement to make. So, you think that we should view mental illness itself always as a continuum rather than categories?

 

[leviathanmisha]

Everything in my bookshelf has to be in alphabetical order, down to my magazines. The notebooks sitting by my bed are color-coded, and pencils and pens can't be in the same holder together.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

If one of my friends have done something and brag to me about I'll go and keep trying what they did until I do it better.

 

[Skeleton Jelly]

I need symmetry in everything. Lack of symmetry makes me uneasy.

I also feel I have to walk to the left/right of certain objects on the street or I get a horrible feeling that something bad will happen.

This. Asymmetry is annoying as hell. And I can't stand not being on the left side when I'm walking with someone. It feels like I'm horribly out of place.

 

[khaimera]

Everyone is OCD on some level

Thanks for that. And I do believe it should be based on a continuum. Categories are easier to work with but cannto convey the depth of information that a dimensional model would. There is talk of moving diagnosis in this direction, but it will take quite a while to change, hopefully DSM V will fix many of the current probelms.

Here's another fun example. To receive the diagnosis of depression one must display five symptoms from a list of nine. If you only display four symptoms, you're kind of out of luck. Then insurance won't cover any treatment. The person may be suffering severely, but technically he/she is not depressed.

 

[J.McMillen]

I always jank the door before going to bed and check it twice that it is REALLY locked... I have no idea why..
If I don't then I can't sleep

I'm surprised it took door locking so long to get mentioned. I do that before going to bed, leaving my apartment, getting out of my car, etc...

I find that if I tell my self 3 or 4 times "The door is locked" after physically checking it I can walk away without feeling the urge to go back and check again.

 

[oktalist]

I don't know why, but I really like multiples of 5...

As a programmer I am unnaturally drawn to the powers of two (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64... have them memorised up to 65536). When reading I don't use a bookmark, but just remember the page number, which has to have some significance like that, or a multiple of 10 or something. And God help anyone who changes the TV volume to 17 in my presence. What the hell kind of number is that? It's prime, it's not a multiple of anything. It's only one away from 16, which is a way better number. Well, I won't say anything at the time but as soon at they leave I'll change it.