OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

[Warhammer]

Nope. I have a basic sense of order, but I don't make an effort to make sure my books and picture frames are perfectly even.

Same here.

However, I have a friend who has OCD. It's not major OCD with doing routine rituals or with the OCD hindering his daily functions and life, but having things aligned and the way he wants it to be is his problem. Also, with his computer, he always waits for a page to load all the way. If I go to the YouTube home page, and instantly click a video without waiting for it to reload, he will close the entire browser and reopen it. If I am on any site that has a volume setting, if I change the website's volume setting instead of manually adjusting his computer speaker, he will freak out and close the browser, and reopen it. When he is in MY car, he always wants the A/C button to be in the middle of hot and cold, and he wants the air direction to be on the setting when it hits your face and feet.

Now, I know this is wrong, but when he does that crap in my car, I will fake like I am angry, and I will be like "If you touch my damn settings again, you can get the hell out of the car." Then he will moan because it is not his way. I am secretly pleased, and I think that by doing that, he will have to man up and get over his OCD. Also, when he, my other friend, and I are at his house either playing a game on the computer or YouTubing, I purposely get some pens out of his pen holder, and put them on random places on his desk, put the pens on the opposite ends then put them back in the pen holder, or I will take the tops off of the pens and just throw them somewhere on his desk.

 

[CorpusBlack]

**** Wikipedia.

 

[QueerMike]

I got diagnosed a couple of days ago. Herm.


It's been a screwed up couple of weeks beforehand, though, because the whole 'obsessive thought complex' thing (people who have O.C.D. know what I'm talking about) has been getting rampant, and really effing hard to deal with.

I didn't know whether to make a thread or not, but why not?

What kind of drugs do you get? Are there any other benefits? What are the symptoms?

 

[Superhobo]

*slaps forehead*

I have 'Pure O' OCD, as well as some physical stuff - I have to lock the doors every half an hour or so, or check and make sure they're locked, after ten; I'll periodically pull out my graphic novels and books from their shelves to make sure they're not foxing or ear-marked, put them back, pull them back out, put them back again, pull them out - and on and on.

Pure O is pretty distressing, actually -

"The objective in this classification involves the escape or avoidance (through excessive mental behavior) of noxious and unwanted thoughts. In its most generic form, persons might have upsetting words or phrases repeated in their head, not unlike what most experience when an unpleasant song is played over and over in our mind without our active choice in it being there. Persons with the Pure-O classification also can experience what seems to them to be threatening ideation involving the potential that they might do harm to others or that merely the idea of having the threatening thought suggests something evil or depraved about their identity, capability, or self worth. This classification periodically also involves persons who engage in a tremendous amount of problem solving (also referred to as ruminating), as a ritual. Endless attempts to answer questions related to one's own sexual orientation or even something as simplistic as the name of one's third grade teacher might occupy endless hours of problem solving. "

- but I get on.

Right now, I take Paxil and Lorazopam, periodically.

Benefits?

 

[QueerMike]

*slaps forehead*



Right now, I take Paxil and Lorazopam, periodically.

Benefits?

Don't forget to organize your books first.

 

[Superhobo]

Don't forget to organize your books first.

Ahahaha, get shot.

















What, were you expecting a smiley? Want your mother to kiss you goodbye?

 

[DorkyFresh]

that sux dude, sorry to hear...




...if it makes you feel any better, i think i have ADHDOCD. Attention Deficit High Definition Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

 

[Nathan Petrelli]

i have ocd too, but it doesnt really bother me in the end, just makes me pay attention to detail

 

[Superhobo]

that sux dude, sorry to hear...




...if it makes you feel any better, i think i have ADHDOCD. Attention Deficit High Definition Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

How do you have ADD and OCD, though? That's just sounds challenging.

 

[DorkyFresh]

i was just joking, but it could happen right? i dunno...


...seriously though, good luck with your condition.

 

[Superhobo]

Thanks, I guess.

 

[Ice-man]

I have a food ocd. I cant use metal silverware, i have to use plastic, if im useing plastic i have to blow on it to clean off dust. i do the same with straws and cups.. if im useing colored utensils i cant use red colored spoons when eating cereal.

i have to have things clean or organized, never both than it just seems like everything out of place again.

i have a new spitting ocd, i spit repeatidly till it feels right. =/

i have a few more but thats all im listing.

 

[Monster]

I started this thread.

Why was it taken off of me?

 

[LexCorp]

Oh I see

who made this thread?

 

[Monster]

Superhobo.

 

[LexCorp]

I have a great sense of order with no need to fall into the OCD stereotype.

Poor OCD people

 

[CorpusBlack]

I have a great sense of order with no need to fall into the OCD stereotype.

Poor OCD people

I like my OCD. I wouldn't know how to function w/out it.

 

[LexCorp]

I like my OCD. I wouldn't know how to function w/out it.

Oh dear the irony.

 

[CorpusBlack]

Oh dear the irony.

 

[Knightsaber Priss]

I don't have OCD as clinically defined but there was a time when I had to watch certain shows at certain times, kind of like Rain Man and the People's Court. Of course with the advent of the internet and movie sharing websites I am not bothered so much by missing a show because I know somebody somewhere has uploaded it onto the web.

Of course OCD is a more manageable thing than being Bipolar/Manic Depressant. I have a sister who's like that. When I used to live with my parents many moons ago she had been undiagnosed and taking no medication. I can tell you it wasn't fun living with someone who was sweet one moment then a raging demon the next for silly reasons like her silverware didn't match up.

 

[DarkAllknighter]

I have to disagree, OCD in its more extreme forms, can be much more traumatic, than most other things. this is for one simple reason, your know you are doing it, but can not stop. With other mental issues, i believe that they are their "true" perception of things. Imagine having the urge to kill a child, whilst having all the guilt and horror that goes with it, and you have an idea of what an ocd sufferer can go through.

 

[FreeRadical]

I have 'Pure O' OCD, as well as some physical stuff - I have to lock the doors every half an hour or so, or check and make sure they're locked, after ten; I'll periodically pull out my graphic novels and books from their shelves to make sure they're not foxing or ear-marked, put them back, pull them back out, put them back again, pull them out - and on and on.

Pure O is pretty distressing, actually -

"The objective in this classification involves the escape or avoidance (through excessive mental behavior) of noxious and unwanted thoughts. In its most generic form, persons might have upsetting words or phrases repeated in their head, not unlike what most experience when an unpleasant song is played over and over in our mind without our active choice in it being there. Persons with the Pure-O classification also can experience what seems to them to be threatening ideation involving the potential that they might do harm to others or that merely the idea of having the threatening thought suggests something evil or depraved about their identity, capability, or self worth. This classification periodically also involves persons who engage in a tremendous amount of problem solving (also referred to as ruminating), as a ritual. Endless attempts to answer questions related to one's own sexual orientation or even something as simplistic as the name of one's third grade teacher might occupy endless hours of problem solving. "

- but I get on.

I was diagnosed with O.C.D last year, Pure O. Started around 2005 after I graduated uni. Initially I was diagnosed with depression which faded, but the continuous thoughts were still there. I was ruminating some of the time, but the thoughts kept on switching themes.

Got depressed again last spring, and was referred to a clinical psychologist. I went to counselling once a week, learning about cognitive behavioural therapy, and given meds (paroxetine).

Within a month I felt better. I am more outgoing and relaxed than I used to be. Even though no one can fully recover from OCD, I still get some thoughts and rituals.

The most important thing I was told by my psychologist is that there hasn't been a reported incidence of a OCD sufferer acting on their thoughts.

 

[Logan's Runt]

I don't have OCD as clinically defined but there was a time when I had to watch certain shows at certain times, kind of like Rain Man and the People's Court. Of course with the advent of the internet and movie sharing websites I am not bothered so much by missing a show because I know somebody somewhere has uploaded it onto the web.

Of course OCD is a more manageable thing than being Bipolar/Manic Depressant. I have a sister who's like that. When I used to live with my parents many moons ago she had been undiagnosed and taking no medication. I can tell you it wasn't fun living with someone who was sweet one moment then a raging demon the next for silly reasons like her silverware didn't match up.

I have to disagree, OCD in its more extreme forms, can be much more traumatic, than most other things. this is for one simple reason, your know you are doing it, but can not stop. With other mental issues, i believe that they are their "true" perception of things. Imagine having the urge to kill a child, whilst having all the guilt and horror that goes with it, and you have an idea of what an ocd sufferer can go through.

Arguing about which mental health disorder is 'worse' is ignorant and devalues the suffering that everyone with a mental disorder goes through.

 

[DarkAllknighter]

no one is arguing about it, i was just pointing out that it isant "less" than other conditions. if you would like to properly read things, you mite not make these mistakes in the future.

 

[Logan's Runt]

no one is arguing about it, i was just pointing out that it isant "less" than other conditions. if you would like to properly read things, you mite not make these mistakes in the future.

If you would like to appear to not be an idiot, learn to spell.

You said that OCD in extreme forms can be "much more traumatic than most other things"- which, in the English language indicates a ranking and ordering of the subjects in question. Had you some semblance of intelligence, you would understand that. I understand however that this is asking too much of you.