#obsessive compulsive behaviour

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Me: I hate having OCD!

Other People: Can't you just.... not do the things OCD tells you to do?

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Does anyone else with OCD get one of those moments where you feel like you’re compelled to do something, but aren’t sure what you feel compelled to do, or why you’re compelled to do it?

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What People Think OCD Is: Simply repeating an action, like tapping on the floor. Maybe washing our hands to make sure they’re clean

What OCD Actually Is: It’s actually pretty scary. Your mind basically tells you that if you don’t do a certain action, then something bad is going to happen. You think that doing the action will calm you down, but what it actually does is make you associate the action with that scary thought, making you wanting to perform the action every time you think about it.

Heck, OCD can also make you lose sleep and become completely fearful. Intrusive thoughts take over your mind that are very difficult to get rid of. Certain OCD actions can make you late for things, and take up a heck of a lot of your time, and sometimes, even if you do said action, you’re not completely satisfied, and you have to do it again

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OCD Advice

If you ever feel compelled to do something an even number of times, tell yourself to do it again after midnight. Why? Because by then, you’ll have technically only have done it an odd number of times that day, which cannot be changed, and that might help you feel less compelled

[spongebob-autisticquestions]

Me: Things are going okay, maybe I won't even be late this time!

OCD: Ha! We'll see about that!

[caoimhinkellehers]

what i mean by ‘obsessive-compulsive’ traits

i do not and have never claimed to have obsessive-compulsive disorder (and i certainly don’t throw around the “omg i’m so ocd about” blah blah). however, i recently realized that i do in fact live my life by certain ‘rules’:

i always have to clock in at work either on an :05 or :00 time -- there are quite a few times when i’ve gotten really really angry at myself (to the point of wanting to break/throw things) for having juuust missed it and clocking in at, say, 9:31

when i make certain changes (e.g., switch to a new phone carrier/plan; reformat my laptop; start a new transit card cycle) i try really hard to do it on the 1st of the month. otherwise, things feel off

i used to count my exclamation points when i was typing a lot of them, and they had to be one of the following: 5, 8, 10, 14, 16, 22...i don’t imagine i would put any more than that, but if i did the next number would be 34 (i’ve gotten better about this tho, or at least i’m trying to)

a similar thing but in reverse w/ characters remaining in tweets

the volume bar on my laptop or work computer always hAS to be an even number (same if i happen to be watching tv somewhere where i can control it) this is very important for some reason

if there’s like, a floating notification window (like in outlook) or a music player into mini mode, the placement has to be in the lower right corner and exactly equidistant to the side and bottom, such at the lower right corner of the object forms a square with the same corner of the available screen space

i tried to get rid of this one the last time they switched out my work computer and i had to redo my custom settings on outlook, but after like an hour i got so upset & uncomfortable at seeing “crooked” notifications that i ended up fixing it after all

i lovelovelove when things can be pushed flush against the screen (as opposed to going into the off-screen nothingness)

(lololol i don’t do this anymore thank god but) when i was very young i had to fold toilet paper along the perforated edge XD i’m sure there are many many people who do this (i’m not making fun!) but yeah

as i’d said, it’s not at the severity of ‘disorder’ because it doesn’t significantly impede my ability to function and live life. but honestly, it’s exhausting to live this way. but i don’t want to not do these things because they make me feel cleaner, more secure/stable, more ‘click’ (like when you plug in a phone jack), and more ‘right’ with the world.

[xen-life]

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Three in every hundred Australians (equal to 450, 000 people) will develop Obsessive Compulsive Disorder at some point in their lives. World Health Organisation reported that OCD became one of the top 20 causes of illness related disability for ages 15-44 years of age. Cases of OCD are most likely to be diagnosed during childhood and adolescence.

http://xenlife.com.au/10-things-ocs-do/

[showmethesneer]

literally just 2 days ago I was so proud of how full and thick my eyebrows were getting since I had gone over 2 months without pulling them out. 

I fucked up yesterday. 

I’m so mad cuz this was my beautiful eyebrow just 5 days ago: