Are You OCD?

My first impulse after reading this was, "OMG yer all freaks." After thinking about it for a minute or two and re-reading some of the posts I realized I'm not so un-freakish myself. When making scrambled eggs? I have to have an even number of eggs. Don't mess with my chairs, they are set perfectly for my height, and tendency to lean. This one really bugs the crap out of me... People who will get their hands dirty just because they know they're going to wash them again. Like when you clean off the leftover food on a plate before doing the dishes? Hell no, I will dirty a clean fork to scrape that goop off. I must lay on my side, facing away from the center of the bed or I can't sleep. Do not expect me to sit with my back to the door in a resteraunt. I realized I even have a systematic way of cleaning up after a visit to the rest room. So yes, I'm a guy, and I'm nuttier than the rest of you! (BTW all guys are like this, they just lie to look superior!)

Well I was fine until I read this! lol Now I'm twitching and counting keys! But yes, I'm OCD too. For years I thought that I was simply following my mother's constant "Pay attention to the details!" dictum that she threw at me every time I moved or opened my mouth. So yes Mr. Freud I blame my mother! lol I don't count tiles or steps or things, but I can navigate in the dark just fine because my senses become hightened and I instinctively know where to go - well last night I was really tired and after I turned out the lights and went to walk out of the living room, my senses must have been already asleep because I miscalculated and walked, literally, into the edge of the door frame knocking things off the table to the right, but managed even in the dark to catch the falling objects and put them back on the table. So this morning I have a major headache and a dent in my door frame.*sigh* So being OCD has it's drawbacks, but it's advantages too. LOL

I am OCOS, Oppessive Complusive...Ooo Shiny! I am slightly OCD, but not as much as other people. Mine is mostly doing things in the same way. I am slowly breaking myself of that habit.

"the insanity has its merits. when the power goes~poof~ im the only one that doesnt bumble in the dark nearing killing myself slamming into furniture or walls" LOL yea true enough..with me its not OCD though its a photographic memory... I'm not OCD but I definately have little quirks that could be considered OCDish by some...Just little habits I have "i swear my husband thinks my ovaries are a dousing rod that can lead me to any lost article hes misplaced" ROFLMFAO omg thats too funny!

But to respond to your question Im slightly OCD where I have to always push chairs in even in public, straighten books at the library and always have to put the books back that my kids threw around the bookstore even though its the book clerks job! I see myself putting things in a neat pile after eating out and my bf bugs me because thats why he tips the waiter but sometimes i cant help it. Im not a clean freak but I have to have things in a certain order in my house and I literally cannot think straight if theres not order in the house---like toys or scraps of paper on the floor, or pillows out of order, my papers have to be in a neat pile or in a folder, stuff like that. I don't see it as a big deal but good feng shui since clutter is unuseful energy and even my bed I have to have in a certain direction depending on how I feel. I dont practice feng shui but do agree with the concept since it does make me feel more productive. My boyfriend thinks Im his personal secretary and its partly my fault because I had to organize everything of his up until we had kis and now its annoying but he knows that I cannot stand a shirt laying on his dresser or on the floor and will pick it or put it away eventually. I would say that being Bipolar affects me more than these habits as with being bipolar you go through the ups and downs, racing thoughts, constant monitoring of meds and the misconceptions.

Sounds tedious but I did just read an article in the magazine New Scientist titled 'The beautiful forgetful mind' about a woman who can remember everything (except things that have no interest to her life) and she says her mind runs like a constant stream of movies everytime she thinks about something it triggers a memory and then another and then another. They have not figured out why she is like this because it was something that she was not born with but woke up one day with but said she doesnt not qualify as having a photographic mind.

How funny are you! I was thinking about it all as I was reading it and I think I too have OCD. But not all the time. My house isn't necessary clean with every thing in its place but I do have certain things that have to be in certain places. I have an obsession with my desk at work that every thing has to be right where it should and no where else. Even to the point that I have asked the cleaning people to NOT touch my desk, I will clean it myself. Yes I too am guity of counting ceiling tiles, windows, how many signs did I just pass? My clothing has to be a just right, my daughters clothes are together by sets, my husbands clothes are his own thing I don't touch them he doesn't touch mine. I am also VERY semetrical. Things have to be the same on both sides. When my husband kisses me good bye on the cheek I turn for him to kiss the other. I just feel off balance if I don't get one on each cheek. The book on my book shelves are in order by size because I would hate to see a short book then a tall book then another short book ... that would make me NUTS! Well now that I have assured my self I am a nut I feel better. lol. Anyway have a good day I sure will ... I have lots of ceiling tiles to count...

lol....your story is somewhat the same with my mother..she's really an OCD type...everything in our house should be organized according to how she wants them to be,, a little change will make her freak out..she even has her own system of sweeping the house from start to finish, when she asks me to sweep the floor and she sees i didn't follow her system, she'll get mad and start sweeping the floor again by herself!!! she also wants the master bedroom uncluttered..but whenever we stay there a couple of days with my children, we usually occupy their room, and because my children are so playful..bedsheets will be removed, pillows uncovered, as in very chaotic scene..their granny will just say ""oh my God, what the hell happened with my bedroom!!!"""...she couldn't stand to watch it that way, so she'll ask her grandchildren to play outside while she fix her bedroom... even in the kitchen, she's really so OCD...she wants no dishes unwashed in the sink, it should always be dry, and everytime she's done cooking, she always clean and wipes the entire gas range including the oven..

hi tessah, you've got a good topic going on here:) i laugh and smile at some of your discussions and some of the people's discussions here because i feel that sometimes i am the same way too.. i guess i inherited it from my father. although i dont have a major OCD issue i have quirks too. in my bag, my things has to be organized when i walk out the door, i dont mind if they get disorganized going home since im going home. and i can fix it at night for the next day. my pens, pencils, erasers and etc. has to be in a pencil case or a container so i can find it easily. makes sense right? than going through your bag? make-ups in the bag has to have a container as well, so no dirt would fall on your bag. my coins has to be in a coin purse and my bills has to be in a flat wallet. without that coin purse thing attached to it? hahaha. but the thing that gets me going is cleaning. hahaha... especially in my room, whom i happen to be sharing with my older sister, she has her own room but i guess she likes staying in one room. and i, a person who likes to have things in a certain way want it to remain in a certain way. and my sister, being a person who loves to take things and not return them in their proper places blows me out into the roof! she places her clothes that she has tried on that day but decided to wear another and puts the rest on her bed, and some on mine! and it gets me frustrated that her wet towel is on my bed as well (sometimes). she uses products that i have lined up neatly in a row infront of our mirror but puts them on top of the tv! grrrr!!! i placed a container for all necklaces but she puts them on the table. i made a line on top of the mirror for our danggling earrings but when she gets home she takes it off along with the necklace and puts them anywhere! she has a sheet of her yellow pad that needs to be thrown out into the trash but doesnt and puts them on my desk and leaves it there! ugh.. she knows how to open doors, drawers and cabinets but doesnt know exactly how to close them properly! geez! hahaha... and the books! we have a lil bookshelf in the room with books lined up neatly mind you and when she enters she either leaves her keys there, her pens, her make-ups or lip gloss... and aside from that, i really hate dust, i mean who doesnt though right. and i get upset that dust would stick to the top of the book, you know the top of the book where the pages show? and because of that i had to plastic cover the books so it wouldnt have dust in them. hahaha.. and to a point all together with my sister's 'leaving things in the bookshelf' attitude and the dust sticking i had to cover the book shelf all over with plastic so that dust wouldnt get in and she couldnt leave things in there. hahaha and it worked! and she doesnt clean the room so i have to do it. and once i got tired of her not cleaning up after herself that i cleaned the room just on my side just to see if she would clean up. but no! she didnt, it got messier and i hated walking barefoot in my room coz dirt would stick! and i love walking barefooted. i couldnt sleep so that night i had to get up and do some light cleaning b4 the mornings up and started cleaning when my sister was gone. it makes me breathe easier knowing that my room is clean and organized. i dont mind if anywhere else in the house isnt that organized since im not the only 1 living in the house. but the room is another thing...