Is there any correlation between OCD & staring?!


Question: Like, I suffer OCD. Many people say that people with OCD stare a lot. Like staring off into space or staring @ people.

I know I stare @ people without even realizing it. Either that, or I find that I'm unknowingly staring @ the ceiling, trying to figure out a way to block a certain unwanted, intrusive thought that's in my head. When I was going to school, my college professor would dock participation points, which was 30% of our grade because they're under the impression that I just DON'T PAY ATTENTION. My mind wanders, & I just find myself zoned out. When the professor calls on me to correct the answer to a question, "I'm like, huh?", & I', so zoned out that I forget where I am, having a mental war with my OCD unwanted thoughts.

I study people to see how many steps they take when walking or something like that. Or I might observe them & pay close attention to what they touch. If they touch the garbage can, I better run for my life because I'd freak out if they touch ME after.


Answers: Like, I suffer OCD. Many people say that people with OCD stare a lot. Like staring off into space or staring @ people.

I know I stare @ people without even realizing it. Either that, or I find that I'm unknowingly staring @ the ceiling, trying to figure out a way to block a certain unwanted, intrusive thought that's in my head. When I was going to school, my college professor would dock participation points, which was 30% of our grade because they're under the impression that I just DON'T PAY ATTENTION. My mind wanders, & I just find myself zoned out. When the professor calls on me to correct the answer to a question, "I'm like, huh?", & I', so zoned out that I forget where I am, having a mental war with my OCD unwanted thoughts.

I study people to see how many steps they take when walking or something like that. Or I might observe them & pay close attention to what they touch. If they touch the garbage can, I better run for my life because I'd freak out if they touch ME after.

This happens to me alot too. Kids in my class are always tapping me and going like 'Wake up and stop staring at the window!' except I'm not really fighting with myself. Just my mind is so filled with thoughts I'm just kinda "sorting" them. It's really hard to explain. And a lot of people in my class get kind of weirded out be me because by accident I stare at them without realizing it too. Like the kid will kick me under the table and say something like, 'Stop looking at me already!'
One thing I always do is when I open the cap to a container (Like the cap on a carton of juice) I always put the cap face down with the inside facing the table and before I put the cap back on I /must/ blow on it before tightening it. I always feel like the table is so dirty or something. Also if I'm like holding a paper with only 2 fingers of my right hand or whatever, I have to hold it with all my fingers. Or sometimes I have to touch all of the corners of an object. I also really like counting things too. Like I counted how many bites this girl was taking from her sandwich at lunch yesterday, then I counted the sips she was taking from her CapriSun. I was also counting the number of times she said the word 'me'. Sometimes I count the weirdest things.
But OCD is treatable you know.

Well, you sort of answered your own question, if you're focused on battling your anxieties all the time, chances are you will be paying less attention to the world around you and might appear to be staring into space.

im not like a doctor with this stuff, but i can share my personal experience because i suffer from OCD too. i stare off into space a lot. ill be in the middle of a conversation with someone, and stop talking all of a sudden because im trying to block out some obnoxious thought, and when im doing so, i stare into space completely. and of course i notice peoples actions, it contributes to my OCD. so yeah, i would say they were related.

I had OCD about 5 years ago, while i was blocking a thought out i used to concentrate so completely that my eyes were completely fixed until it disappeared.





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