Ocd

[Liquidshokk]

This thread is funny, looks like we all have some minor OCDs, but obvioulsy nothing that interrupts with our daily lives like some people!

 

I do things in 4s; check the front / car handles

Stereo in car / at home etc has to be on even numbers

Items can't touch on the dinner table and should be in alignment

The toilet roll has to be on the right way round

I get cross about toothpaste tubes not being squeezed at the bottom

 

and so on!

 

It is quite an eye opener. You agree that they are disorders then and not just a fashionable thing to claim to have as my dear football friend Turkish would have you believe? (Come to think of it I haven't heard anyone ever boast about having minor or major traits of OCD)

 

It's funny that such a weird and freakish set of behaviours is just accepted and discussed openly these days... I mean touching things twice till it feels right?!? mental stuff!!

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

I can't listen to the Radio/CD/iPod in my car if the 'number' of volume is an odd number...freak show!

[sadoldgit]

I don't suffer with it myself but did through my ex wife. She also has a Narcissitic Personality Disorder on top of that which made the whole thing a living nightmare. SHe no longer has to wash her hands hundreds of times a day, but is still a complete control freak.

[Liquidshokk]

I don't suffer with it myself but did through my ex wife. She also has a Narcissitic Personality Disorder on top of that which made the whole thing a living nightmare. SHe no longer has to wash her hands hundreds of times a day, but is still a complete control freak.

 

Sounds like you did well to get out of that one....

[Truesaint]

I used to suffer quite bad with it for a few years. Was even put on tablets to help me, which worked. I also went to speak to some people about it. Basically the long and short of it is that we all do it, just to differing degrees. Some of us it takes over our lives. I had really trouble with washing my hands and germs etc. Im much better now and have learned to live with it. Its just one of those things though that if you do them, just remember it dosent make you a nutter or unusual. As this thread proves we all do them to differing degress. Its no worse than i suppose players rituals before a game its the same sort of thing.

Mind you cant believe ive just tried to put a sensible answer on here.

[Turkish]

It is quite an eye opener. You agree that they are disorders then and not just a fashionable thing to claim to have as my dear football friend Turkish would have you believe? (Come to think of it I haven't heard anyone ever boast about having minor or major traits of OCD)

 

It's funny that such a weird and freakish set of behaviours is just accepted and discussed openly these days... I mean touching things twice till it feels right?!? mental stuff!!

 

Of course Patrick agrees, he is mental himself! You've got to admit some people enjoy being ill/mad. It is almost like bragging and a competition that they have got more wrong with them than other people. Like all these conditions there are about 2% genuine cases and 98% people over analysing their behaviour to convince themselves, maybe even hoping they have it.

[sadoldgit]

Sounds like you did well to get out of that one....

 

Big time! Many years on and she is still giving me grief through being difficult with my contact with the kids. Her way or no way.

 

David Beckham has OCD too. Just thought I would throw that in!

[Liquidshokk]

Of course Patrick agrees, he is mental himself! You've got to admit some people enjoy being ill/mad. It is almost like bragging and a competition that they have got more wrong with them than other people. Like all these conditions there are about 2% genuine cases and 98% people over analysing their behaviour to convince themselves, maybe even hoping they have it.

 

Sorry mate, but I just can't see why anyone would do that... I suppose the mongiest of people may be extreme hypercondriacs and play on any symptoms they have to get sympathy but i dont think bragging comes into it.

 

I admit that if I find something wrong with me I do tend to think the worst and will scour the internet trying to find out what it is but I wouldnt shout from the rooftop if I had cancer, aids, or any mental illness to get attention. Thats just weird. I started this thread purely to share experiences of this disorder (cos that is what it is, its not habits in majority of cases) not to show off. To me the two dont go hand in hand.

[Turkish]

Sorry mate, but I just can't see why anyone would do that... I suppose the mongiest of people may be extreme hypercondriacs and play on any symptoms they have to get sympathy but i dont think bragging comes into it.

 

I admit that if I find something wrong with me I do tend to think the worst and will scour the internet trying to find out what it is but I wouldnt shout from the rooftop if I had cancer, aids, or any mental illness to get attention. Thats just weird. I started this thread purely to share experiences of this disorder (cos that is what it is, its not habits in majority of cases) not to show off. To me the two dont go hand in hand.

 

Cancer and aids are a bit different, but i have know a few people during time that claim to have absolutely everything that is in the news at the time! Stress, depression, OCD, Swine Flu, the list goes on. I am afraid i dont have much sympathy when it comes to people whinging about these suposed conditions. My biggest bug bear are people that claim to have stress and depression. Again like i said about about 2% of cases are genuine but stress and depression are quite simply in a lot of cases self pity and weakness of character to deal with life. We all have things we can get stressed or depressed about but some get on with it and others sit on their arse with a woe is me attitude.

[Liquidshokk]

Cancer and aids are a bit different, but i have know a few people during time that claim to have absolutely everything that is in the news at the time! Stress, depression, OCD, Swine Flu, the list goes on. I am afraid i dont have much sympathy when it comes to people whinging about these suposed conditions. My biggest bug bear are people that claim to have stress and depression. Again like i said about about 2% of cases are genuine but stress and depression are quite simply in a lot of cases self pity and weakness of character to deal with life. We all have things we can get stressed or depressed about but some get on with it and others sit on their arse with a woe is me attitude.

 

Well that we agree on. I used to work with someone who got signed off for 6 weeks because of stress (Dont think it was because of me) which is absoultely absurd. When I spoke to her before she was signed off she was absoultely fine and no more stressed than i was!! These people dont need signing off they need sending off to somewhere where people ARE actually sufferring!

 

By the way, I hope you dont think people are "whingeing" on here about having certain OCD's? If anything its one of those ones that bother you so much when you are going through it but is ultimately something you can laugh about and share as its quite extraordinary.

Edited 21 December, 2010 by Liquidshokk

[Turkish]

Well that we agree on. I used to work with someone who got signed off for 6 weeks because of stress (Dont think it was because of me) which is absoultely absurd. When I spoke to her before she was signed off she was absoultely fine and no more stressed than i was!! These people dont need signing off they need sending off to somewhere where people ARE actually sufferring!

 

And as for those that claim to have depression FFS, this drives me loopy. My incumbents aunt thinks she has got it, she hasn't, what she does do though when anything remotely bad or out of the ordinary happens, by this i mean her being told off at work for a mistake she has made or something simple like this that most of us deal with everyday, she then sits around moping aboutfor days on end telling everyone that will listen how life has dealt her such a bad hand and she cant face going out. Young people have no excuse, how the f*ck can an 18 year old suffer from depression? Yet alot of them seem to suffer from everything that is going. It makes you wonder how these people would cope if they had been born in Serbia and seen their whole family killed in from of them. That is the problem with a lot of people in this country, no minerals.

[SparkySaint]

I can't watch tv programs with the red button icon on screen. Thats it

[saint_in_munich]

And as for those that claim to have depression FFS, this drives me loopy. My incumbents aunt thinks she has got it, she hasn't, what she does do though when anything remotely bad or out of the ordinary happens, by this i mean her being told off at work for a mistake she has made or something simple like this that most of us deal with everyday, she then sits around moping aboutfor days on end telling everyone that will listen how life has dealt her such a bad hand and she cant face going out. Young people have no excuse, how the f*ck can an 18 year old suffer from depression? Yet alot of them seem to suffer from everything that is going. It makes you wonder how these people would cope if they had been born in Serbia and seen their whole family killed in from of them. That is the problem with a lot of people in this country, no minerals.

 

That drives me mad !! Depression, phvk off, give yaself a damn good shake and take a wander through the childrens hospital and then feel sorry for yourself.

[Jonnyboy]

And as for those that claim to have depression FFS, this drives me loopy. My incumbents aunt thinks she has got it, she hasn't, what she does do though when anything remotely bad or out of the ordinary happens, by this i mean her being told off at work for a mistake she has made or something simple like this that most of us deal with everyday, she then sits around moping aboutfor days on end telling everyone that will listen how life has dealt her such a bad hand and she cant face going out. Young people have no excuse, how the f*ck can an 18 year old suffer from depression? Yet alot of them seem to suffer from everything that is going. It makes you wonder how these people would cope if they had been born in Serbia and seen their whole family killed in from of them. That is the problem with a lot of people in this country, no minerals.

 

Where did you do your medical degree again?

[Turkish]

Where did you do your medical degree again?

 

University of Life.

[Jonnyboy]

University of Life.

 

funny, everyone Ive ever met has been there.

[pap]

As a kid, I went mental when I found out about, and was terrified by, germs. The idea of something small and potentially deadly freaked me out. If I touched something, I had to touch it again to "put the germs back on". As a consequence, I probably ended up collecting more germs than I would have done normally.

 

Now, I'm a bit obsessive about numbers that are powers of two (which I like) the number 37 (which I do not).

[Turkish]

funny, everyone Ive ever met has been there.

 

very few graduate with a first though.

[scotty]

very few graduate with a first though.

 

they couldnt afford the loan repayments.

[lettuce]

I'm another that has to have the car stereo volume on an even number and also the climate control temperature setting (although 2 final odd digits like 17.5 is a compromise as they add together to create an even number.. 16.5 or 17.0 are complete no-no's)

 

Also, the cigarette symbol on the lighter in the car always has to be lined up straight... the missus always leaves it wonky on purpose when she's been using the sat-nav because she knows it winds me up

[scotty]

I'm another that has to have the car stereo volume on an even number and also the climate control temperature setting (although 2 final odd digits like 17.5 is a compromise as they add together to create an even number.. 16.5 or 17.0 are complete no-no's)

 

Also, the cigarette symbol on the lighter in the car always has to be lined up straight... the missus always leaves it wonky on purpose when she's been using the sat-nav because she knows it winds me up

 

I think thats actually grounds for divorce nowadays?

[lettuce]

I think thats actually grounds for divorce nowadays?

 

The "toilet roll orientation" is another one that we disagree on... I insist on the end of the roll hanging from the side closest to the lav, she insists on it hanging from the side closest to the wall... honestly, sometimes I wonder why I married her (other than for the scintilating conversation about toilet rolls and car cigarette lighters)

 

Of course, I'm correct because that's how toilet rolls are placed in hotels when they fold the corners into a point

[bridge too far]

The "toilet roll orientation" is another one that we disagree on... I insist on the end of the roll hanging from the side closest to the lav, she insists on it hanging from the side closest to the wall... honestly, sometimes I wonder why I married her (other than for the scintilating conversation about toilet rolls and car cigarette lighters)

 

Of course, I'm correct because that's how toilet rolls are placed in hotels when they fold the corners into a point

 

Your wife is, of course, correct as far as the toilet roll situation is concerned. There's a simple logic to her (and my) reasoning. Tug too hard on the TR if the end is at the front and it can unravel faster than you can shake a stick at. If the end is by the wall, there is less chance of this happening.

 

This is based on my experience of what happens when you have puppies / small children in your house.

[Jonnyboy]

very few graduate with a first though.

 

not bad, though ive got a masters

[Turkish]

not bad, though ive got a masters

 

thats why, you are one of them that whatever you've done there is always some c*nt that will brag they've done it bigger and better.

[Saint In Exile]

I have the toilet roll one. Amusingly, so does Mr TF although we disagree on which way the toilet roll should hang on the hook. So it's constant swapping in our house.

 

Am I married to you??? That's exactly the same in my house!!

[Miffy]

When I was younger I avoided stepping on the cracks between paving slabs, I also had a wierd thing going, where I would visualise lines on the ground between fixed objects, like lamposts, post boxes and drain covers, then I would avoid treading on these imaginary lines. It got quite complicated at times.

 

I think I am cured now, but do still occasionally find myself avoiding cracks in the pavement.

[Turkish]

You're right about some of it, but depression is very real and can hit anyone. The fact that many claim it easily or use it as an excuse only makes it harder for those really suffering.

 

It's true you wouldn't mind evidence of it in really difficult scenarios, as you say in Serbia, starving in Africa and so on. But in those cases you have far more immediate problems to deal with. Same way a bad back from sitting in the office all day wouldn't be quite the same as starving to death with no food. But how far can you take the comparisons? For 99% of cases, there is something worse. Lose a leg, well someone lost two. Should we feel no sympathy, can they not get down? Lose a loved one, well many people have their whole families murdered.

 

It's terrible these things happen around the world, it does put things in perspective but at the end of the day we can only truly focus on our own lives. The fact that millions have had tougher lives than me doesn't make mine any easier. It makes me sad for them, sympathetic, but my circumstances remain the same.

 

As i say like everyone of these so called conditions, there are genuine cases where it is indeed a mental problem. Far too many people though use bad things happening to them as an exucse to wallow in self pity then claim it's stress or depression. I've known dozens of people who claim to have depresion and i can only honestly say i have ever met one person who i consider genuine.(Although i am sure the PC crowd will say i am not qualified to judge this) All the others were just delicate, self indulgent little flowers unable to cope with knock backs, problems or anything out of their comfort zone that life threw at them. They concentrate on what they haven't got rather than what they have.

 

The bottom line is that EVERYONE has something they could get depressed about. Accidents happen, things go wrong, people lose jobs, relationships end, family & friends die. It's happened to me it probably happened to everyone on this board at some point and it's life. But is the answer sitting on your arse not leaving the house being self indulgent with a woe is me attitude, dwelling on how unlucky and terrible your life is or cracking on with life and doing something about it? The modern society has created a culture in this country where people are firstly allowed to behave like this because the country has gone soft and also where people are not responsible for their actions because of all these modern coniditons mean they can blame their behaviour on an illness or conditon which in reality they dont actually have.

Edited 23 December, 2010 by Turkish

[Turkish]

interestingly just seen something about OCD on the telly. An "expert" on it says only 3% of people suffer from it at some point in their lives. Reading this forum you'd think what she means is that 3% of people dont suffer from it. Confirms my view that what most people have are simply habits and not some mental illness

[Jonnyboy]

interestingly just seen something about OCD on the telly. An "expert" on it says only 3% of people suffer from it at some point in their lives. Reading this forum you'd think what she means is that 3% of people dont suffer from it. Confirms my view that what most people have are simply habits and not some mental illness

 

Do you have an OCD about OCDs?

[Turkish]

Obviously. It's an illness with symptoms we can all relate to at a minor level. Same way we all get down, at least the sentient non-dune like people, but that doesn't necessarily equate to depression.

 

It doesn't therefore follow that OCD and depression don't exist or that they are any less severe.

 

I am sure they do exist and for some people i am sure it makes their life very difficult. However, take depression for example, it is a fact that if you sit around doing nothing it makes you miserable, lazy and feel like doing nothing. Mope around on your arse all day thinking about how sh*t your life is, analysing everything that has gone wrong will make you believe it. Another "condition" which was in the news about 5 years ago which everyone claimed to have was SAD, what a load of bol*ocks that was!!! Funnily enough we dont hear much about it anymore. M.E, or "yuppie flu" as it was nicknamed, another condition which weak willed people used as an excuse not to work FFS, I know of 3 people who claimed to have it about five years ago, f*ck all wrong with them, just used to sit around the house all day moaning about how knackered they felt, what do they ******** expect, get out there and do something! We dont hear much about that anymore either. A lot of these so called coniditions are made up with every lazy, miserable or wierd c*nt jumps on the bandwagon as an excuse to justify their behaviour.

[Turkish]

Do you have an OCD about OCDs?

 

Yep and it's giving me depression.

[Jonnyboy]

Yep and it's giving me depression.

 

I can tell ;-)