Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder, more specifically, an anxiety disorder. OCD is manifested in a variety of forms, but is most commonly characterized b...
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So I thought it would be interesting and funny to share all of the crazy things and phases we've gone through with our OCD - this way we can laugh at it and not take everything so seriously.
I'll start with some of my personal favorites: Most of these I've gotten over just by sheer willpower to do so, some of them I'm still holding on to 1. Touching anything purple will give me cancer 2. Seeing a gay couple, breathing in the air around a gay person, saying or hearing the word 'lesbian' or 'gay' will automatically turn me into a raging lesbian if I don't clean my ears and eyes out. (I won't explain just how I went about doing that, just know that it was an extensive process) 3. I can catch AIDS from myself..although I don't even have it. 4. If I don't drink over a gallon of water a day, my skin will dry out and break out and just become altogether disgusting - overnight, mind you. 5. I have to do EVERYTHING EXACTLY the same EVERY day at the EXACT SAME time, to the minute. 5 minutes off will send me into anxiety like nothing else - and yes, this here would be my allotted time slot for computer usage. 6. Before I fall asleep, whether I'm taking a nap or actually going to bed, I have to check the house for intruders because god knows these days you can get raped in your sleep, not be aware of it at all (as the rapist would do his business and leave without a trace) and then contract AIDS immediately. 7. Drinking more than 2 cans of diet soda a day WILL give me cancer..scientifically proven, didn't you know? Anyway, those are some of mine, feel free to share yours I think it's fun Posted on 06/27/08, 11:06 am |
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Mine are haunting thoughts...dont believe in god...bad things about my parents/husband 
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Mine make even less sense. If I don't get my coffee out of the microwave before the cycle ends, I will die of cancer. If I don't hear XXX song on the radio in the next three songs, I will die of cancer. If I eat that my butt will balloon up by five pounds and most likely, I will die of cancer. If the next car I see is black, I will (do you want to guess?) ...die of cancer. Or someone I love will die before I do. If I don't flip the creek off when I run by it, the demon at the bottom will get out and possess me. (I'm getting a grip on that one.) I MUST take reading material into the bathroom with me even if it's only for a sec. (OK, you could have done without learning that.) Good news is that I'm getting a pretty good handle on all of those. Life could be worse.
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I had the AIDS ocd too.
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I have Pure O, just scary, obsessive thoughts about hurting people. I now know they are just thoughts and nothing more. =)
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I've had a lot of bizarre ones in the past. I guess one that might be considered funny is I noticed a lot of tar spots on a street in Santa Barbara and obsessed for a day how they all got there--I mean I just had to figure it out.
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Wolverine... that's funny. I had a similar one when one night I lay awake in my bed until like 3am trying to figure out how my town's Main Street could be improved. Like I had to come up with something. So weird.
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I don't believe things like that very much ... but ... I do get a bit paranoid about salmonella poisoning when I cook chicken or eggs, I am afraid of my husband dying, I am afraid of my own thoughts (afraid that I am terrible for thinking terrible things), afraid that someday I will be unfaithful to my husband and ruin our beautiful relationship (which I am sooo happy in) ...
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Oh and I often feel like I'm somehow jinxing myself or someone I love if I don't say something I think, like to drive say, or "goodnight, sweet dreams, god bless you, i love you" (yes the entire thing) ... and I get anxious if I don't say things.
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if someone with ANY sort of smell on their breath breathes by me, i have to blow the "bad air" out of my mouth and nose and rub my lips and nose really hard. and if someone touches me and i didn't "allow" it (ie; they move closer to me, i didn't allow it; i move closer to them, i did allow it,) then i have to scrape wherever they touched me with my fingernails. that one's gotten A LOT better.
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I make a list out everyday of at least 75 things to do, eveything has to be in place ALL the time, I even get up during the night to check and see if everything is still in place(like who is gonna move it , everybody is sleeping), I have to go a certain way when I go to Wal-Mart , and I do not go in the grocery end, I make a menu out every week and make my grocery list according to the isles at Wal-Mart, if I forget to write something on my list, which means I have to change my routine, it is very hard for me, somtimes I just don't get it at all. These are just a few things. I am a whole let better than I used to be !!
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