Do you have OCD?!


Question: i mean like the serious kind...not just like "omygosh, thats not clean enough!!" cause those are usually people trying to be annoying...and its not real.
i have it. i developed it really young, then it went away temporarily, or at least i didnt have the symptoms anymore for a while...but i never told anyone, so i just thought it was me being weird that i had to do everything an even number of times, and id constantly get weird feelings where id HAVE to make a certain movement, or something like that ALL the time...then it came back...and ive had it ever since..
do you ever feel so frustrated with it you just want to scream and make it stop sooo badly?
i do. a lot. sometimes it bothers and frustrates me to tears...and i just want to give up. but of course, OCD wont let you do that.....
also, im jsut really bored, and figured id find out what other people feel like with REAL OCD


Answers: i mean like the serious kind...not just like "omygosh, thats not clean enough!!" cause those are usually people trying to be annoying...and its not real.
i have it. i developed it really young, then it went away temporarily, or at least i didnt have the symptoms anymore for a while...but i never told anyone, so i just thought it was me being weird that i had to do everything an even number of times, and id constantly get weird feelings where id HAVE to make a certain movement, or something like that ALL the time...then it came back...and ive had it ever since..
do you ever feel so frustrated with it you just want to scream and make it stop sooo badly?
i do. a lot. sometimes it bothers and frustrates me to tears...and i just want to give up. but of course, OCD wont let you do that.....
also, im jsut really bored, and figured id find out what other people feel like with REAL OCD

i have OCD and i know percisely how you feel.
there's a treatment for it, but its not a major disorder.
just sort of pestering.

whenever i touch something with one hand, i have the most uncomfortable urge to touch it with my other hand.

i told my mom and she doesnt give it much care.
??
im never really taken seriously.


but when i was really young, like todler years, i would raw all over the furniture, because i would accidentally stain a table[for example] with a marker, and then just stare at it, and hope in my thoughts, that the line would be more cemetrical.


it doesnt really go and come back..
you just learn to control it for a while...maybe??

very much so.

every time i wash my hands. I dont feel like i washed them all the way, so i just have to wash them over, and over until i feel like their washed right.

Yeah.. But another type..

i had it when i was younger but i dont do any of my ritual any more. now adays i do some compuslive things like i cant take the first thing off the shelf(no big deal). but i pray to god i dont have a relapse

My brother has it...he feels uneven all the time, if he didn't blink right in one eye he has to blink 5 more times on the other eye. If he touches his elbow against the wall he has to touch his other elbow and the same wall. He always has to even himself out.

no i dont but my favorite teacher in the world had ocd...it was serious. she couldnt have her food touch....she couldnt go past something without doing it again....and the ocd made her crazy about collecting things...its called hording...i think...where u cant really stop bringing things into the house and piling everything up...u no...and she died in june...it was really sad.

Yes I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder AS WELL AS Asperger's Syndrome Disorder - almost like a double case of OCD since they are so similar.

Yes they do frustrate me. My ASD and OCD combined have caused me severe depression known as Unipolar Disorder. I take therapy to help me deal with this crap and I will be spending 3 weeks in the hospital to try and overcome them as best I can. It really does suck having them.

I can so understand what you are saying. I have OCD in the sense that I have uncontrollable thoughts, things that no other person should ever think about. Things that are quite scary at times. My therapist was working with me every week until I moved. I can also understand where the even numbers thing comes in. I have to have everything symmetrical or I will lose it, I cant function. I just can't. You aren't alone. There are tons of people with OCD of some sort.

I believe I have it to some extent..
I'm forever going back to check if I closed the sink tap all the way..or that I "really" locked the door.
I also go around checking all the light switches all the time because I have a fear that if they're not completely all the way down that it will cause a fire..

I so understand your tears and frustration....I'm so tired of doing it..but so afraid to stop..

have you seen a movie called the "Matchstick Man" pretty good OCD case. also do you see a doctor for it? i was just wondering.

yes. I bless myself constantly and crack my shoulder, now I have arthritis in my arm and hand but I can't stop. My older brother has it really BAD. He washes his hands like 100 times a day, if he drops a piece of clothing on the floor he picks it up like it has maggots on it. He's got it horribley. He cleans the toilet before he uses it.

yeah. i think my parents don't believe me. it drives me crazy. i never used to talk about it. but. i didn't think anyone else had it as bad. if i'm doing my makeup or something and i don't think i did a good enough job, i just quit. if i can't do something perfect i don't want to even finish it. if i hit a light switch or turn a door knob, but don't like how i did it, i'll do it as many times as i have to. if there's something on my mind, and i want to say it and i don't. i'll say it a few minutes later just so i don't feel funny. it's so weird. i'm not like diagnosed. but, i know i have it. the weird thing is.. i either am a total perfectionist. or. i see a mess. but. arrange it so i like the way it is but it's still messy. yeah. i'm weird.

for the longest time i could not split a pole, tree, anything that would part me from my daughter. i wouldnt allow her split the pole either. i would even ask her to go back around the pole! there were times where she would do what normal kids do and run around a tree for whatever reason and then i would ask her to run back around the same amount of times she had run around the tree. washing hands was a issue to for a while. my daughter was a good sport, and eventually i just stopped doing those weird ocd things. just gotta make an effort to stop and not think about it. dont let it settle in your head if you did not do it the correct number of times! thats when some weird sort of guilt kicks in and continously reminds you that you did wrong, and that you were supposed to count!

ocd has been known to take over people's lives. good luck.

yeah i have serious ocd and am recieving therapy for it. i get weird thoughts. like really strange thoughts. really horrible ones that i dont really want to discuss. sometimes i get pattern things where i have to tap something a certain amount of times. sometimes it would run into hundreds and when i walk away i'd look back and the thoughts wouldnt go away from my mind so i had to do it again and again.
also i cant wash dishes because once i touched a dirty cup and i scrubbed my hand for around a hour & a half straight, my hand was purple and the skin was peeling off, took weeks to heal

i hate it when people say "I suffer from OCD i love things being clean." because they dont suffer from ocd at all, it doesnt disrupt their lives like it does for real sufferers.

yeah I know what you mean, i am crazy OCD sometimes I get so bad sometimes that i am walking across the room just to straighten thigs out or make them even and i have to clean resturant table and organize everything, then i always have to wlk on the inside and run my fingers accross the wall (especially is it is a chain link fence) and i am obsessed with numbers that can have an exact middle (e.x. 3....middle is two) and the number four (which makes no sese with the first rule) i will get up and check to make sure i turned off al the lights 9 times every night (again with the number thing middle is 5) i shake my foot whenever there is music, no matter what its aweful and i end up with a headache when i try to fight it off... iknowhowyafeel

i developed it when i was so young. not that i knew it was OCD, when i was a real young kid stuff wasn't discussed like that, but these day's it seems to be the 'trend'

i was like 7 or 6 so hiding it didnt occur to me, not that i could anyway, i always felt dirty touching certain things and used to wash my hands in disinfectant so they got all sccabby and bled. i think my parents thought it was eczma at first. but it got obvious when i started scrubbing my clothes if an animal brushed past and i wouldn't play outside coz of 'germs'. i also was afraid of my soul being taken away, so everytime i left a room or turned something off or even switched the channel, i had to do 5 deep breaths and i got so panicky i would loose count and had to start again, i always got dizzy from that!
its gone away but has started coming back and i am having to touch things a few times, i've started using shampoo and body wash as soap. kinda sucks!
and i have cried so much out of frustration, when it was at its worse i wouldn't sleep as i got so nervous wether i was clean enough every few minuetes i was up washing again.

I have some Obsessive Complusive Disorder symptoms but nothing like what I have read just now. I tend to want to clean alot but that is not all the time. I don't think I suffer from it like some of you do. I do have some strange things I do from time to time but I don't have to take any medicines for it. I like to read and sometimes I tend to read compulsively.

Yes, I have OCD. I developed a very mild case of it when I was seven, when we got our wooden floor. I had to go across exactly 7 planks to get out of the room or something bad would happen to my family. When I was 8 it was 8 planks, until I was 10 and I was unable to continue (too many planks). So I developed other habits, mostly with numbers.

Now I can't have the volume on number 6, because that's the devil's number. It scares me, and I hate it. I;ve got loads of other things that I HAVE to do, but would take hours to list and explain all their details.

I have attempted to tell my mother that I have OCD twice, but on both occasions she told me not to be silly. I attempted to explain to her but then she got angry, so I dropped it.

I got into a massive fight with my old best friend because of something I did and she ended up sayign that I don't have OCD, that I can't tell, to go see a doctor, when a few months back she comforted me about my mother reacting like she did. We lost contact after that.

If I were to get treatment then I wouldn't take medication, because I'm really paranoid about that sort of thing, though I wouldn't mind seeing a counsellor, but I can't because then I'd have to raise the subject with my mum again.

I'll probably seek help eventually, but for now I'm going to have to live with it.

Unfortunately I also suffer from CSP, which is Compulsive Skin Picking, though my mother thinks it's just a bad habit.

Hi Jillax, You could make an appointment with a different doctor, one that might refer you to someone who can help you, like a psychologist or someone who understands OCD. Like Ms Frenchie, I too suffer from CSP which is regarded as one of the OC-spectrum disorders (OCSD). Pickadillos is a self-help, goal-setting group for sufferers who want to quit CSP, and there are several other Yahoo groups for OCD sufferers.





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