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- wakeupsticky, on 04/06/2009, -2/+38I have it, and few things irritate me more than hearing people say "OMG I'M SO OCD!" when they really have no clue what they are taking about.
- datagod, on 04/06/2009, -2/+33There is a reason you can only digg once....
- Hortinstein, on 04/06/2009, -1/+26man I'm still a little weird with OCD, but nothing compared to when I was younger (8-9ish) and would flip all my lights 3 times, than go around unplug and replug all the outlets in my room, making sure to run my hands over them to MAKE SURE nothing was plugged in, than count all the stuffed animals in my room.
My parents cured me by making fun of me. Now I just drown my obsessions with Gin. Thanks Mom. - seltaeb4, on 04/06/2009, -4/+27Having Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a real pain.
Having Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a real pain. - WVUDoss, on 04/06/2009, -0/+20Anyone else not able to go up/down a flight of stairs without counting them?
I can tell you the number of stairs for any flight that I frequent, including public...and nothing makes me madder than an odd number of stairs. - drunknmunky1, on 04/06/2009, -0/+18If I'm bothered because Tinypic ***** SUCKS does that mean that I have OCD?
- ryan83189, on 04/05/2009, -0/+17We only enter perfect squares on this microwave, thank you very much.
- ghettojafar, on 04/06/2009, -1/+18I refer to it as "CDO" so the letters are in alphabetical order
- inactive, on 04/06/2009, -2/+15OMG
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A sideways pyramid. - StickWST, on 04/05/2009, -0/+12My girlfriend has a major OCD symptom, where she will never eat the last bite of her food in fear that she will throw up. She's never even thrown up from doing that in the past, just like the articles says. At first I figured that it must be eating disorder related, but it seems to fit OCD much better.
- Panya9, on 04/04/2009, -3/+13Thank you.
- Hortinstein, on 04/06/2009, -0/+9well im obsessive about not clicking through multiple pages for an article...thank you to the publisher of this content for not irritating me
- VictoriaMaria, on 04/06/2009, -0/+9I have never heard that said, hope it doesn't pick up in the manner that "ur retarded" and "that's so gay" has...
Of course they don't have any idea. I laughed at OCD symptoms, thought it funny my friend carried hand sanitizer around. But of course that was before I washed my hands so much that they were bleeding and I could barely move my fingers due to the pain.
[I'm on meds now, and getting better, if anyone's curious]. - themusicalduck, on 04/06/2009, -0/+9I'm quite surprised by how many people commenting on this story have OCD (although people who suffer are probably compelled to comment anyway since it relates to them)
I also suffer from OCD. I wash my hands about 30 times a day amongst checking and other things, though it is no where near as bad as it was a few years ago where it completely took over my life.
Once I was able to reduce some of my obsessions enough, I was able to leave home and go to college. One of the best things to reduce further my problems was by having to look after them myself and not having family who were willing to help cater for my obsessions. I also associated a lot of obsessions with my home, so by moving out I was able to start on a clean slate as it were and try not to develop new ones. - darknecross, on 04/06/2009, -6/+15OCD Test:
http://i42.tinypic.com/28smp9l.jpg
See if you get bothered. - JakeSN, on 04/06/2009, -0/+8Yep I definitely do that, as well as always keeping the TV volume at at even number or multiples of five. No 27s or 34s etc.
- Smalldude76, on 04/06/2009, -0/+7OCD is different for everybody. For some it's worse, some not so much. It's pretty fun if you grow to notice and can laugh at it.
In relation to the toilet paper article on Digg last week, I'll change people's toilet paper so it faces the right way. People will see a poster put up and ask if I did it simply because it was parallel to something else or an edge. I keep a pen in my right pocket at all times and a kleenex or two in my left. I also only use the corners or middle of a kleenex - never a straight edge. After drinking a can of something I crush it so that I know it's been drank and that there's nothing left in it. If I don't (and I've tested this) I keep going back for that last drop every couple minutes despite already knowing it's empty. I wash my hands about 30-40 times a day (thankfully I don't have any of that set number stuff). - Sil369, on 04/06/2009, -2/+9. . . . . . . . . . . . . OMG
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . OMG - AndrewDB, on 04/06/2009, -2/+9I have OCD when it comes to certain things on my PC ( I can't stand having more than four icons on the desktop at once.. or more than 4 windows open at once ) and in real life, but other things like the messiness of my desk.. I could care less.
- cricketsymphony, on 04/06/2009, -1/+7you don't understand obsessive compulsive disorder
- VictoriaMaria, on 04/06/2009, -0/+6Not true. Her symptoms may well be OCD. What you describe might be someone else's OCD symptoms though. OCD causes anxiety over a certain things - fear of germs, of leaving the lights on, that something will happen - and you do something to make the anxiety go away. Wash your hands, check to see if the light's off 4 times, or not eat that last bite of food.
- KilGil27, on 04/06/2009, -0/+6I try my hardest to end on the same foot I started on...
- cricketsymphony, on 04/06/2009, -2/+8amen
- theysayjump, on 04/06/2009, -0/+6No problem.
- shanmac, on 04/06/2009, -0/+5I'm glad that this article portrays OCD as a serious illness. It seems so much that Hollywood has portrayed this as a 'cool' illness. I can assure you that it is not cool and can be debilitating.
- Xymox, on 04/06/2009, -0/+5I guess we all must have it since 1) we read Digg all the time and 2) we actually look at the stoy comments.
- inactive, on 04/06/2009, -0/+5Tinypic deletes the photo when a certain amount of people have viewed it.
- lestyoubejudged, on 04/06/2009, -0/+5I have a boderline OCD/ICD (Impule Control Disorder) called Trichotillomania.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichotillomania
I hide it pretty well. My daughter has inherited the organization form. We joke around that we want ***** that read:
"I love my OCD" - toxicityj, on 04/06/2009, -0/+4OCD is pretty much a nightmare. I don't have the typical symptoms of checking, continually washing your hands, etc.
My OCD is entirely thought-based. I obseissively think about something. It's not like normal worrying where someone worries about something then can dismiss it. I literally can't dismiss something. I become terrified of something and I can't stop thinking about that. And my compulsion is to try to disprove my fear by irrationalizing it, but with OCD that's literally impossible. Because as soon as you disprove it, you think of a bunch of new thoughts that debunk your debunking. it's intense and when I first started to show symptoms I would sit there for hours obsessing about something and no one would notice it because on the outside you can't tell what's going on.
I know it kind of sounds like just regular old worrying, but anyone whose suffered from ocd like that will tell you it's like fifty times as bad.
http://www.ocdla.com/obsessionalOCD.html - Fixhotep, on 04/06/2009, -0/+4People often get OCPD and OPD mixed up with OCD. They are very different. I'd bet that most of the people on the webs that claim they have OCD actually have OCPD or OPD, or nothing at all. I laugh at all these people who say "I have a little OCD." It's insulting really, as OCD is much more serious and dangerous than OCPD or OPD.
Most of the crap listed in this thread is OCPD or OPD, not OCD. - derektherock42, on 04/06/2009, -0/+4There is no remedy for OCD. Not therapy, exercise, dieting, or meds. A disorder doesn't need to be a disease for meds to help, though. Meds do help with disorders like OCD, depression, bipolar disorder, and others. They don't cure them, and if you stop taking them, you're back where you started. But what they do do is make them easier to live with and easier to manage.
- emt1451, on 04/06/2009, -0/+4AndrewDB is flat out wrong. I don't know any way to put that more clearly.
- Snyz, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3Maybe not OCD, but I obsess over things needing to set at right angles or it bothers the hell out of me. Dust and fingerprints are also my enemy when it comes to electronics, it sucks now that everything seems to be glossy these days.
- ZenMojo, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3Up until elementary school I used to have to touch everything with both hands and up through elementary school I used to avoid stepping on cracks and would wash my hands until they bled. They would later call it "perfectionism."
I eventually learned to stop giving a crap, which made my roommates in college think I was a slob for leaving my socks on the floor and my clothes in a pile in the corner of the room. I still have trouble with the whole moderation thing. - brad3378, on 04/06/2009, -1/+4OGC
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A circle jerk pyramid. - jerryn, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3I think I have it.. If I'm troubleshooting code or hardware problem... I can't stop thinking about it until I am done solving the problem. My brain multitasks.. but man the issue is on on top of the stack and I can't get it out of my mind. When I design something from the ground up and I'm inventing something new.. same thing. It's great for a job but sucks in the personal life area. If something is on my mind, *****... sometimes I can't drop a subject. I'm lucky that my wife really loves me man! I just don't want to drive my kids crazy with it.
- theysayjump, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3Tsk tsk tsk, someone didn't RTFA.
- RedSaber, on 04/06/2009, -1/+3My gf has OCD. It can be a pain in the arse, but it can also be treated and she learned how to live with it She only had A's at school, she received insane sponsorships and stuff like that. It has also so good "side effects" let's say.
Wanna know the funny part? She's a psychologist.
A lot of people currently studying psychology at the Ph.D. level have OCD... but that's another story. - inactive, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2What the ***** right after i clicked the link i started doing something OCD.
- ripple123, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2i blame blizzard entertainment. damn you diablo 2. click click click click click click CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK. hmm. now ive written that, its got more truth to it than id like.
- Wosat, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2I've read a few articles that contain reports of people treating their OCD with psilocybin. Has anyone heard of anything regarding this treatment? Does anyone have any first-hand experience with this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive-compulsive_ ... - omgbanana, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2OCD isn't about what pleases you. It's about preventing what you fear.
- Azriel7, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2I had OCD bad when I was a kid, I used to constantly check the light switch to make sure its off (even though I could see its off), I would stay at the light switch for at least a good ten to fifteen minutes. I also had a thing about checking doors to make sure they lock. I grew out of most of it, but I still have a bad habit of checking my car door to make sure its locked.
- WoollyMittens, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Whenever I catch myself getting into compulsive habits, I start doing the exact opposite for a while. Maybe that is compulsive too though...
- toxicityj, on 04/07/2009, -0/+2finding the ultimate truth pretty much sums up my ocd perfectly. I've never had any harm obsessions, but I definitley went through a sexual obsession phase for a few months. Awful stuff. The trick is to not pursue the truth. Obsessive and reoccuring thoughts are going to happen, but do your best to stop it at one thought for that moment then don't try to disprove the thought. Like if you think "oh i'm going to hurt someone" leave it at that. Don't try to disprove it by saying "no I'm not! I don't even..blha blah". all thats going to do is give you temporary relief and additional doubt. I've gone 2 days of applying that to my obsessions and the results are amazing.
/I'mNotaRealDoctor,IJustPlayOneOnDigg - Soofi, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2I understand what you are going through, and the problem with OCD is that most people who have the symptoms know that what they are doing is irrational and stupid, but they feel compelled to carry on anyway.
I think the crux of the matter is not based on how smart or rational you are, but rather on conditioning and routine. Human nature is wired for some form of ritual and standard routine - this is can be satisfied by religion, such as the motions in the daily prayers (salat) in Islam for example, or the ablution and cleansing with water that precedes it. I think that without some existing purposeful ritual in our lives, we are susceptible to developing obsessive compulsions with other behaviors, often irrational.
I do not know the cures, but my best guess would be to shock yourself out of it. Change your daily routines, try new things and experiences in life, and while your mind adjusts to new surroundings and events, you are in a good position to prime your brain not to obsess over your compulsions.
I am not suggesting anything here, but at around the age of 20, the house I had lived and grew up in for the previous 20 years was involved in a fire incident and pretty much everything inside became toast.
All the attachments we had to the things we had hoarded over a lifetime were now black ashes.. it was quite a surreal experience. But I was grateful that nobody in our family was hurt - the material losses can be replaced in time. The shock of the event, moving to a new place the same night, adjusting to a new daily routine, everything added up, it was quite a transformation, and in the process I was freed of some obsessive thoughts.
What I came away with, was the understanding that sometimes when you have it really good in life, you might start taking things for granted and perhaps complain more, or find ways to complicate things unnecessarily. We can find ourselves in repetitive routines and get too cosy in those obsessions. Change your day to day routines, even if it means joining the gym, cycling and swimming etc and chances are you will be in a better position to deal with your OCD thoughts. - drvikram008, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Being a Doctor i would like to throw light on 7 basic causes of OCD http://wacky5.com/7-causes-of-obsessive-compulsive ...
Obsessive Compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disorder belonging to the anxiety group of disorders and is characterized by obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions are repeated, recurrent thoughts and ideas that are intrusive and inappropriate. Compulsions are repeated acts that are performed by the patients in response to an obsession or according to rigid laid down rules.
Its treatment is also discusses at above link - inactive, on 04/06/2009, -1/+3....
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.... - secrity, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2I suppose that is you post nothing of any substance. This is an example of one of Licurgo's posts:
"im Christian and at the same time im a incestuous homosexual
pothead, and is absolutely not contradictory"
It makes even LESS sense when taken into context with the post that he was replying to. - omenmedia, on 04/06/2009, -3/+5But you can digg and undigg and digg and undigg and digg and undigg as much as you like.
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