Anybody suffer from OCD or neurotic about order and correctness?

Anderson said:
Fwiw, there are two disorders, OCD and OCPD, with very similar labels, and although "OCD" has become shorthand, it's actually OCPD (Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder) that most people are referencing. I'll give you the short version:

OCD - obsessions and compulsions (see above). Examples: washing your hands 20 times even though they are clean, checking your door or window locks for hours, even though you "know" they are locked; counting to yourself over and over; cleaning obsessively out of fear of contamination; hoarding (like on the TV show).

OCPD - perfectionism, excessively detail oriented, excessive need for order and organization, "anal" personality, overly structured and rule-oriented, driven to always be "productive," hard time relaxing and going with the flow, etc.

When people say "I'm OCD," they usually mean the latter, not the former. It's confusing, because we've got two different disorders with "obsessive compulsive" in the title.
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This post seems pretty obsessively fact laden.
 
Z A C K said:
Now that I think about it, I kind of do have an OCD action that I do. Every night right before I go to bed, I HAVE to look at my stove and make sure every knob is turned to off, then as I walk out of my kitchen towards my bedroom I have to look at my door and make sure the latch lock thing is up. If I leave my room any time after doing these checks I MUST do them again. Every night, even if I didn't cook that day at all.
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C. The obsessions or compulsions cause marked distress, are time consuming (take more than 1 hour a day), or significantly interfere with the person's normal routine, occupational (or academic) functioning, or usual social activities or relationships.
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Ok, so if it doesn't take over 1 hour then it doesn't count? That's some sh1t right there.
 
Z A C K said:
Ok, so if it doesn't take over 1 hour then it doesn't count? That's some sh1t right there.
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lol, yeah, if you're only doing it once, that's not OCD. Someone with OCD would check over and over and over -- 20 times, 30 times, maybe for hours on end, never really being sure the door is locked or the oven is off. "Mania de doubte," it was called once, I think -- crazed with doubt/uncertainty.
 
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Anderson said:
lol, yeah, if you're only doing it once, that's not OCD. Someone with OCD would check over and over and over -- 20 times, 30 times, maybe for hours on end, never really being sure the door is locked or the oven is off. "Mania de doubte," it was called once, I think -- crazed with doubt/uncertainty.
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Well I do it every night. And it takes about 15 seconds. If you add that up that's 1.5 hours a year. I'm wasting my life away! :crazy:
 
Z A C K said:
Well I do it every night. And it takes about 15 seconds. If you add that up that's 1.5 hours a year. I'm wasting my life away! :crazy:
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It has to be maladaptive and cause you some sort of harm in your life. I'm not saying that it isn't problematic for you, i'm just saying that in order for someone who suffers from OCD to be diagnosed with the disorder they must meet the quoted criteria.
 
I always hold my car keys in one of my hands when closing my car door. I have never locked my keys in my car.


What bothers me a lot is whenever I see someone that in my view improperly handles a CD or DVD or any other disk media by putting their fingertips on the surface. WTF are you doing smudging up your media you'll have to clean it or the damn music will skip sonofabitch do think that is a damn drink coaster ahhhhh!!!!!????? This is followed by a flashback of the last time I was in the rental store and rented a game disk that looked like soda had been spilled on it by some careless a******.

Somewhat related to this, I have a high regard for the design of Mini-Discs since they're tiny CDs protected within a plastic case. I never understood why Music CDs couldn't be done like that instead of having a vulnerable surface so easily exposed to damage and scratching and FingerSmudges.


Also, in the bathroom the flap that hangs down from the toilet paper roll must never face the wall. I will stop and flip the roll around to be set the proper way.
 
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morfeeis said:
It has to be maladaptive and cause you some sort of harm in your life. I'm not saying that it isn't problematic for you, i'm just saying that in order for someone who suffers from OCD to be diagnosed with the disorder they must meet the quoted criteria.
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So just drop the "D". It's there but not to the level of life affecting Disorder.
 
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