Obsessive compulsive behaviour

[nordin dk 0]

You sound very normal to me Aaron, except your obsession with becoming president. That is not healthy!

[Duke_of_Ray 0]

I have an obbsession with becomig a mod! What is normal? Does anybody on this forum normal?

[Duke_of_Ray 0]

Anybody wathc the new show on USA called Monk? I really like it, that sort of the way I was when I had OCD.

[nordin dk 0]

How can Obsessive Compulsive Disorder just go away?

[Duke_of_Ray 0]

By realizing that it is pointless, and that you do not need to do all "that" stuff. I guess we all have our onw little "quirks", and maybe OCD to some exten, but in most people they are small and not very noticible. I do rembering washing my hnads at a stor and a guy staring at me....back in my OCD days.

[nordin dk 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Duke_of_Ray @ Aug. 02 2002,20:99)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I have an obbsession with becomig a mod! <span id='postcolor'>

That's quite normal, as can be observed.

What did you do to get rid of your compulsions? Did you change something in your daily-life? Did you express your worries? It's okay if you don't want to share, I'm just curious.

[Duke_of_Ray 0]

Expressed my worries to my mon, and it really helped, I still have some of them smoetimes, but I can get through them a lot easier now.

[GFX707 0]

I am pretty sure I have OCD. Sometimes I do something like throw something in the bin, and I have a bad thought about something, then from that I get the impression that the bad thought is going to happen, and I cannot feel comfortable until I take the thing out of the bin and throw it back in again and again until I don't have a bad thought. I also have this thing with doing things 4 times like someone else said. Recently I began to realise what this was and how stupid it is and I have cut down on doing it, the only time it really gets bad is when I am tired or nervous about something, usually just before I go to bed I stand there turning the light on and off until I feel comfortable. It sounds bit gay coming onto a computer game forum and talking about this but hey, I gotta admit it to myself I guess. It's just something to do with being slightly neurotic I suppose. There are little things too that annoy me like the spray nozzle on a can of deodorant not facing the front and CDs not being the right way round in their cases, but the odd thing is that I am a complete slob :o

Actually while I was typing this I stopped to delete something and ended up doing it 4 or 5 times It becomes an automatic response. The hard part is telling yourself that nothing bad is going to happen if you stop doing it, though

The funny thing is just how stupid it seems, but you get stuck thinking that it is the most serious thing in the world

[Warin 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (nordin dk @ Aug. 02 2002,21:44)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">How can Obsessive Compulsive Disorder just go away?<span id='postcolor'>

You cant. Through conditioning though, you can wean yourself from the most glaring obsessive/compusive traits. But it doesnt just 'go away' And if it does, you werent OCD, just really neurotic and strange

[Paratrooper 0]

The only cure is someone shouting "Get a hold of yourself man!" while slapping you about the face

[Duke_of_Ray 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I am pretty sure I have OCD. Sometimes I do something like throw something in the bin, and I have a bad thought about something, then from that I get the impression that the bad thought is going to happen, and I cannot feel comfortable until I take the thing out of the bin and throw it back in again and again until I don't have a bad thought. I also have this thing with doing things 4 times like someone else said. Recently I began to realise what this was and how stupid it is and I have cut down on doing it, the only time it really gets bad is when I am tired or nervous about something, usually just before I go to bed I stand there turning the light on and off until I feel comfortable. It sounds bit gay coming onto a computer game forum and talking about this but hey, I gotta admit it to myself I guess. It's just something to do with being slightly neurotic I suppose. There are little things too that annoy me like the spray nozzle on a can of deodorant not facing the front and CDs not being the right way round in their cases, but the odd thing is that I am a complete slob :o

Actually while I was typing this I stopped to delete something and ended up doing it 4 or 5 times It becomes an automatic response. The hard part is telling yourself that nothing bad is going to happen if you stop doing it, though

The funny thing is just how stupid it seems, but you get stuck thinking that it is the most serious thing in the world <span id='postcolor'>

I know what you are talking about. I use to do that, but I am much much better now. Just stop doing it and it might help ya.

[Mora2 0]

GFX707; i am actually doing the same things as you and it happens when i´m thinking about ppl that are not "winners" so when i do the thing i have to always think about ppl that have success in life...

But i know it´s gonna be temporal and i´ll stop doing it.

[GFX707 0]

Yup, I get it with people too, like if it's someone who got hurt or had a disease or something then I have to keep doing things over and over until it's someone who hasn't, but the problem is once you've thought of them once you can't stop them from popping back up again into your head

[Duke_of_Ray 0]

I still have OCD to some degree, just not like it was. Is there any place to look for stories about OCD on the net? i ahte to luagh, but since I had it pretty bad I can now luagh at myself.   It is sad to see people with server cases of OCD, and I hope they cna get over them, and I hate to admit it, but they make me luagh.

[Placebo 29]

Strangely enough I was just reading the TV guide and there's a docu about OCD on this week, features this woman who used to pull her hair out so she could eat the roots resulting in a bald patch.

[timmy 0]

i dont know if i have ocd, but i have really weird habbits and routines. Like when i go into my bedroom at night, i always turn the lights on, then off in the same order each time, and if i dont i feel wierd and cant sleep, and have to get up, and turn the all on and off in the right order.

Also, for example, if i walk into a room, and i turn, say, 90 degrees to the right, then do somthing, then turn another 90 degrees to the right and walk out of the room, i feel like im backwards or unbalanced or somthing. So whenever i turn a certian amount in one direction, i have to do the same in the other direction to feel normal.

The list goes on of weird habbits i have, i guess you could call it OCD

[Duke_of_Ray 0]

Will it come on television de Americano? What chanel will it be on? Is it british only?

[Duke_of_Ray 0]

I think 98% of people have some form of OCD, I still get worried if I fight with somebody that harm will fall up on them. It is completely normal to have these things, just as long as you do not wash your hands like I did.

[Placebo 29]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Duke_of_Ray @ Aug. 03 2002,06:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Will it come on television de Americano? What chanel will it be on? Is it british only?<span id='postcolor'>

BBC1 Wednesday 07/08/02, 2100-2200:GMT.

Don't PBS or some such thing carry the BBC?

Here's some BBC Science info, lots of stuff about OCD

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Test your self-control against the nation or understand what it's like when your obsessions get out of control.

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[nordin dk 0]

So she could eat the roots? Yuck!

Anyway, look what I found:

From "OCD Online"

What is O.C.D.?

by Steven Phillipson, Ph.D.

"bsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder, first and foremost. It is not a thought disorder. Although the thoughts associated with OCD are bizarre, they are not at all the focal point of the therapeutic objective. The essential features of OCD are recurrent obsessions (thoughts) that create an awareness of alarm or threat. (e.g., "I might get AIDS from the germs on that door knob;" "Since I had the thought of killing my baby, I might be capable of doing it;" "If I don't pick up that Band-Aid someone else might get sick from it, and I would hold myself culpable;" etc.). Persons typically engage in some avoidance or escape response in reaction to the obsessive threat (I typically refer to the obsessive threat as a "spike."). Obsessions take the form of either a perceived threat of physical harm to oneself or others or, in some cases, more of a metaphysical or spiritual threat to oneself, others, or perhaps a deity. I conceptualize the overall syndrome of OCD to consist of three primary branches. Within all three branches, in approximately 80% of all cases, persons performing these rituals are painfully aware that their behavior is unreasonable and irrational. However this insight provides no relief. Therefore attempting to help sufferers through reassurance has no long lasting positive effect...

Read the whole article

This looks like a good site.

Here is something for the younger ones (with - which I find slightly disturbing -  a Flash game about cleaning up your room? "How much can you clean, before it gets dirty again?" Is that gonna help???)

[BoonieRat 0]

I think everybody does the steping around stones lamposts thing!, checking locked doors three times,ect.I know I do!. I talk to my pets as well, but they do talk back. no shit!!.

I think most poeple with their feet on the ground do it. its superstition, and superstition is just awareness of other realitys. thats where doctors really fuck up on diagnosing scitzophrenia. they say its another personality housed in you. its not!. its just a doorway through which there are thousands of personalitys!. dont mean they're all yours. how many people HAV'NT experienced telepathy?. most people in a close relationship have. it the same kinda thing. scitzophrenia is awareness of other things. pure and simple.

and yes I've had the TV and radio talk to me! don't mean I'm frikin crazy!...

My only real problem is I dont like any of that kinda stuff. I shy away from it, but as long as you love life its not a problem. by life I mean *life*, not the shit that happens on nieghbors . people and life are pretty much divorced IMO ...

Were you serious about schitzophrenia running in the family?. which side?.

[Duke_of_Ray 0]

I tried toplay the room cleaning game, that could give you OCD!

[WKK Gimbal 0]

In that TV show I saw, they even showed the physical cause of OCD inside the brain. It's something with certain communiction lines not being able to report back, that they have received the message, so they get the message over and over and over. There's medicine to help against that effect.

[nordin dk 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (BoonieRat @ Aug. 03 2002,11:58)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Were you serious about schitzophrenia running in the family?. which side?.<span id='postcolor'>

I was serious.

I know of two cases on my mothers side, and one case on my fathers. On my mothers side: her male cousin and an aunt as well.

On my fathers side: his brother (my uncle). He's about as crazy as they get.

I got it made!