Obsessive compulsive disorter...Anyone have it?

[Rawr]

I don't, but one of my really close friend does...
When we were fucked up she was freaking out crying to me telling me all about it.
Of how....every year, she'll have a mental break down. for example..at night she cannot leave her clock alone until she knows that her alarm is set perfectly or else she litterly feels like the world will blow up, actually. I mean, try and imagine that, she becomes so stressed. That if it's not set perfectly the world will litterly blow up, or if her curtains are not perfectly alined she'll get that feeling or think that too. I remember once she even told me that when she was a kid and if her socks werent on perfectly she'd fall down where ever she was, freak the fuck out and cry until she couldn't anymore (it wasent in a perfectionest kind of way...more of a scared like the other examples). I doubt anyone will understand but that's just fucked and I want to help her.....I dunno....does anyone else have a problem like this so I can understand more?

[ma belle]

There's a book called 'change your mind and keep the change' which would be beneficial to this scenario, by richard bandler. another on'e 'using your brain for a change'. simple...effective...empowering...cheap!:D

[enree erzweglle]

I don't know anyone who has that problem, but I can imagine that it's an awful feeling. I know that sometimes when I get an idea in my head about the iron, it's very hard to shake it. I'll think that I left the iron turned on and I'll find it hard to not think about that until I go home to check that the house is okay or until someone in the house checks the iron for me. So I have an auto-shut-off iron and I still think about whether it's plugged in/on after I've used it and if it is plugged in, is it facing down or is it upright. So now after I use it and as I'm unplugging it, I see myself doing that in my head so that later on I can refer to that image and I'll stop thinking about the iron.

I don't do that with anything else, just the iron. Which is weird because I use the space heater much more frequently than I do the iron, yet I don't worry about the space heater.

Anyway, I can imagine that if your friend feels this way and nothing helps her, wow, that's got to be hard. :( I don't know if there's anything that you can do to help her other than encourage her to talk to her doctor. It's an anxiety problem, I think, when it extends out like what you described and there are drugs that are effective in treating that.

[ma belle]

no - don't take medicinal drugs. the fact that the behaviour is known to be ridiculous means it is just a brain software glitch, that's all. that's why i suggested those books. they're like virus software for humans. really effective. honest. dont go to the doctors - they know shit about brains

[enree erzweglle]

Yeah with something that sounds like what Rawr described, I think I'd want to see a doctor. Having a breakdown over alarm clocks? ...fearing that things around you are going to blow up because of curtains? That sounds like it's a wee bit beyond the self-help section.

[ma belle]

if she lived in britain i'd offer to do the work myself for free. it takes about an hour. if she can find someone who does neuro linguistic programming or design human engineering she'd be better giving them $25 than introducing a chemical into her body to suppress the brain's activity. it may seem random but there's a reason why its happening. it has a beginning and an ending to the loop (its not happening all the time, so she has to know when to have this experience). i've done lots of work with phobias, mental health issues and even physical health issues with a near 100% record of success. the book i mentioned is designed to have an ffect simply by the act of reading it. its a next best option.

[zorra_chiflada]

what do you mean you were "fucked up"?

[enree erzweglle]

if she lived in britain i'd offer to do the work myself for free. it takes about an hour.I didn't think anything could be cured in an hour.

I had a feeling that you were an alias, ma belle, but now I'm not so sure.

[Kid Presentable]

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[marsdaddy]

Kp & cmute, glad to see your witty banter here.

Severe OCD looks horrible and debilitating to some. I think many people have some form of it. I do a similar thing as enree, except with the garage door. I'm usually about halfway down the block when I forget whether I closed the garage door or not.

I think many people try to maintain or regain control through some level of OCD. Actually being sick last year made me realize how little control I have over the truly important things.

But yeah, seeing a doctor, maybe one who doesn't start with meds, would be a good first step.

[Kid Presentable]

Kp & cmute, glad to see your witty banter here.

Severe OCD looks horrible and debilitating to some. I think many people have some form of it. I do a similar thing as enree, except with the garage door. I'm usually about halfway down the block when I forget whether I closed the garage door or not.

I think many people try to maintain or regain control through some level of OCD. Actually being sick last year made me realize how little control I have over the truly important things.

But yeah, seeing a doctor, maybe one who doesn't start with meds, would be a good first step.
I have to lock up my work, so the examples of key turning are from experience. That, and the watch thing, which someone told me was a substitute behaviour for masturbating. Ever the wanker, me.

[Bob]

i have to post replies in threes

[Kid Presentable]

i have to post replies in threes
What was the deal with that Simpsons variety show where there was no actual Lisa, but instead that older girl was playing her?

[marsdaddy]

i have to post replies in threesThat sounds more Strunk and White than Billy Bob Thorton.

[Bob]

i can't post replies in threes because i'm not allowed to post duplicate posts, much less tripilicates. i didn't know that.

[burbboi]

My sisters' boyfriend is a self-diagnosed OCD sufferer.. I walk by his room sometimes and see him folding underwear/socks/anything meticulously. To the point where my sister would walk in to say 'hey, how's it going' and he's completely engrossed in putting everything in it's place.

Personally, i'd go bananas if I found myself doing that repeatedly.

[Waus]

See "Dirty Filthy Love." It was a decent movie about that.

I have a friend who has to do everything symmetrically. If he taps one thigh he has to tap the other, scratches one side has to scratch the other etc. It's hardly debilitating - in fact that might just qualify as a quirk instead.

[Chicka B]

My mom sorta has it, if anything is crooked or out of place she has to fix it or it'll drive her crazy. Or she'll make me fix it 'cause she's too lazy. And my friend washes her hands so much that they're very dry so she has to put lotion on them. Ummm, this is sorta embarrassing but when I was little and walked on a tiled floor I have to step in the square. I got over that though. :p

[Kid Presentable]

Paper and phones are always perpendicular to that which they rest upon at my Mum's house.

[enree erzweglle]

OCD makes you kickass at detective work.
link (http://www.achannel.ca/images/shows-victoria/monk_lrg.jpg)

[ma belle]

The symptoms are very real for those who experience them. So are the cures. Beliefs lie at the base of them and beliefs can be changed.

This isn't quackery. Its NLP or DHE or Hypnosis CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) or Gestalt Therapy or many other names, but its practiced worldwide everyday. a lot of better doctors' surgeries can even refer.

[Kid Presentable]

OCD makes you kickass at detective work.
Unless you're solving the mystery of the quickest way to do things.

[marsdaddy]

Unless you're solving the mystery of the quickest way to do things.He usually has it all wrapped up in less than 43 minutes.

[Kid Presentable]

He usually has it all wrapped up in less than 43 minutes.
He must have been studying while he worked at the airport.

[Kid Presentable]

Actually, I was just a regular detective, until there was an explosion, and my wife went missing. I have since developed a severe case of OCD. At first, my police department didn't want to use me, but then they realised with my OCD, I had an unusual talent for noticing details.
Dude, you could always fix the fuck out of a plane.

edit: Or did Monk drive taxis?

edit: yes, he did. Fucked that up.

[marsdaddy]

Dude, you could always fix the fuck out of a plane.

edit: Or did Monk drive taxis?

edit: yes, he did. Fucked that up.He could also make a hell of a meal with his brother, Stanley Tucci!

[Kid Presentable]

He could also make a hell of a meal with his brother, Stanley Tucci!
haha, yeah.

[enree erzweglle]

I have to lock up my work, so the examples of key turning are from experience. That, and the watch thing, which someone told me was a substitute behaviour for masturbating. Ever the wanker, me.When I was a teenager, I was the last to leave in the morning and a bunch of times, my dad would get home from work and my keys would be in the lock. :o So he bought a length of chain and attached it to my purse and attached the key to the chain because he figured that I probably wouldn't leave my purse hanging from the door and he was right.

[Yeti]

I was diagnosed as a kid. I have been better recently. It may be because my wife and I have moved alot over the last 2 years.

[ma belle]

is anyone obsessively compulsive about being obsessively compulsive though? i somehow doubt it

[Mrs_Princess]

I don't completely have it.. I can control it, but something's I do have to be done a certian way or I get freaked :(

[Yeti]

I don't completely have it.. I can control it, but something's I do have to be done a certian way or I get freaked :(

OCD is a form of tourettes syndrome. If you have it..... you will know.

[CrankItUp!]

My gf loves the 80's band OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark).

[like2_drink]

kind of