Anyone on here suffer with OCD?

savemoney

We are doomed Raven

Oh well as they say, there is always some one worse off than yourself

jetplane

raven83 wrote: »

Yeah i think it was silly things that have started it off. In the last few weeks it has got worse. All started a few weeks ago when i had a knock on the door from a debt collector which never had before, since then i have been really jumpy everytime i hear a noise or see someone i don't know hanging about near my house, so that rattled me a little and a found myself getting quite ocd, then about a week later i got a benefit review form from the benefit integrity centre and that really scared me as i thought maybe they was thinking i had done something wrong( even though it is probably standard review) and i started to question myself and since then the ocd has been really bad, it is stupid things that trigger it off. I feel like i got to keep checking stuff or do something a number of times or bad stuff will happen and the reason them 2 things happend was because i didn't do my checking grrrrrr i sound like such a twit but atm i just feeling like i need to see things rationally but i can't seem to.

Raven these are perfectly reasonable reasons for your OCD to worsen they are not silly things, so first of all don't beat yourself up about this. The benefits agency reviews often send people over the edge, an unexpected caller can be unerving and coming off or changing medication is usually a difficult time. Keep your GP informed.

jetplane

savemoney wrote: »

To be honest I have enough on my plate with being tired all time as I have trouble sleeping and been told it may be because a vain in my neck may be restricting air flow as I wake up with headaches all time

Oh is this not a very serious thing like an anyeurism / blocked artery type of thing :eek: sorry if I'm overreacting.

raven83

jetplane wrote: »

Raven these are perfectly reasonable reasons for your OCD to worsen they are not silly things, so first of all don't beat yourself up about this. The benefits agency reviews often send people over the edge, an unexpected caller can be unerving and coming off or changing medication is usually a difficult time. Keep your GP informed.

I know, it is just so frustrating. I just feel like i am worrying over something stupid but can't help feel anxious, and this triggers it all off.

savemoney

I dont know I can breathe just it could be vain, I nearly always wake up with a headache now and tried taking antibiotics in case it was sinuses. Yesterday I was really bad with headache I can breathe but I just dont seem to get enough air sometime like I am not far of gasping, I do have asthma but its not that. I was almost in tears yesterday I was so fed up of blooming headaches. I got one now but is not a real pain I can live with it. I dont know what it is doctor said name said I have to have some sleep tests at hospital.

jetplane wrote: »

Oh is this not a very serious thing like an anyeurism / blocked artery type of thing :eek: sorry if I'm overreacting.

jetplane

sleep aponea? yeh you will wake up with headaches but it's not a vein in your neck stopping blood flow it's your throat closing during the night which cuts off your breathing and your oxygen levels drop and then you wake up briefly and start breathing again over and over again although you are not aware of waking up. You never get a full nights sleep, wake up with dry throat and headaches and usually snore like a pig in a panic. It is often due to obesity but not exclusively as it can depend on the shape your nose / throat etc.

Pollycat

I've not been diagnosed but I think I probably have a mild form. I'm very much like rising from the ashes

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

I count ...... everything I do (from stirring a cup of coffee, to peeling veg) - as I have an fear of the number 13 - so .... everything has to be counted to make sure nothing is done 13 times.

Also ..... hanging out washing - I have a way of doing it - only have 2 colours of pegs, each item can only have one colour on and they must alternate around the whirly-gig and also in rows (colour 1, colour 2, colour 1, colour 2 on row one then colour 2, 1, 2, 1 on row 2 etc). (Although it does mean rehanging the whole lot if some is dry and I want to get more out!)
Things also have to be symetrical

I count steps as I walk.
I also like to avoid cracks in pavements and will go out of my way to walk on a strip of tarmac that is covering up a pavement repair, rather than walking normally.
I'd not noticed this until my OH, who'd dropped me off in town, said I was walking quite strangely and then I realised what I'd been doing.

Colour coordination is also very important to me.
I have plastic coathangers in a myriad of colours and wherever possible I put clothes onto the same colour/shade of hanger.
I've been known to take an ironed shirt out of the wardrobe and change the hanger because i'd found a better colour match for the shirt.

My wardrobe is organised colour wise, with long sleeved black tops, grey tops, dark blue tops etc finishing in the middle with white tops, then going the other way with short sleeved tops.

My food kitchen cabinets are organised in a particular order, I can tell instantly if anything has been moved.

If I put something down, say a plate or glass on a place mat, it has to be totally central.
My friend noticed this and kept moving my glass in the pub, she said I moved it back totally unaware of what I was doing.

I make lists, lots of lists. It gives me great satisfaction to cross 'done' things off.

Hey! Ho!

DUKE

I constantly check that cupboards, rooms, myself in the mirror .... are neat & tidy. Although I'm not as bad as I used to be. Also I have an obsessive personality which drives me insane, or maybe I am insane. I seem to waste so much time thinking useless thoughts.

Oh yeah I do the counting thing too. As a mature student some years ago I used to sit & count the windows in the room, this was pointless as if anyone had asked me how many there were I would still have no idea despite counting them for over a year.

I do lists too. When I go on holiday I have to write down all the clothes that I'm taking, all the clothes that I'll be wearing each day, as I can't wear green two days on the trot as people could think I have the same things on every day. I take photo's of me in my holiday clothes too :-/

Pollycat

Does anyone else take a paper or magazine from the middle of the pile, not off the top?

I also spend tatty bank notes before nice, crisp ones.
In a pub, I've taken a new £5 from my OH and given him an old one and put the newer one in my purse.

Not sure if this is OCD or just me.

hazyjo

Oh dear, I have quite a long list.

I have to get out of a bed the side I got in. I also do the pegs thing - when I used to hang mine outside, I had about 4 different colour pegs. Had to hang each item with matching pegs. And other things with colours - ate liquorice allsorts the other day and had to eat them in matching pairs. Same with jelly babies and anything else with colours. Also eat in twos - if say maltesers, have to have them in pairs. Don't mind putting one in, then the other, but have to know I've eaten them in sets of two. Will eat an odd one at the end, so not sure what that's all about lol.

Like even steps on matching floor surfaces. Hate walking up platform at Liverpool Street as they have these dark strips all the way up across the floor tiles. Have to get even steps on the grey bit, then even steps on the beige bit. Very awkward. Same with yellow lines - if I cross a road and have to step on yellow lines, I have to step on them on the other side with the other foot. If there aren't any, or there's a single line instead of one, I'll manage to step on the first set with both feet. I hate drains/manhole covers of any sort, even the small ones. If I absolutely have to step on them, it'll be with even footsteps.

Use the same style mug and spoon for my tea - and have to give it a really good stir in both directions. Have to rinse my spoon under the hot tap at work, then put it on drainer a certain way.

Lots of tapping too. That's got worse lately (probably as stressed). When I open a door, or touch something like the escalator handrail, I tap. And sometimes you just instinctively know how many more you need. If I miss a last tap, like on the loo door at work, I've been known to go back to tap it that last time as I feel incredibly 'unbalanced' if I don't.

My wardrobe's hung in colour order. The left hand side is work stuff and goes in colour, then casual stuff on the right, again in colour. Skirts are hung together, then dresses (obviously all in colour order). If the hangers have a shop name on, that has to be on the front once the item is hung. And when they hangers are on the rail in wardrobe, they all face the same way, hooked over the rail. I couldn't hook one from the reverse side.

Also like the volume on my radio (on mobile phone) to be on an even number.

I have to go through the same barrier at my work - there's a choice of 4 to get to the lifts. I hate it if someone else is using it and I have to use another. Freaks me out and think it's gonna end up being a day from hell.

There are about 30 metal bollard type things outside my work where you can walk between. The ones at the left hand side have steps between them (probably about half of them). I have to use the ones with a flat surface between them. Very awkward when with others who go up the nearest (the steps ones) and I can't avoid them without making myself look ridiculous.

Have always lived at a house where the door number is divisible by 3, or has a number in it that's divisible by 3 (like 19). Not sure if it would actually put me off a house, but maybe subconsciously it would, seeing as I've owned 6 properties over the years...

I like kisses in even numbers too. Okay with friends saying hello, but has to be 2 when in a relationship.

There are probably a thousand other things. It's just every day to me... I deal with it. And nobody would ever really know either, it's things I can hide.

Oh dear, this list is terrible (and barely the start of it!) lol. I'll get me coat...

Jx
PS As above, things have to line up such as putting a glass/mug on a coaster. Has to be central, or cover a pattern, or sit within a pattern... I line stuff up all the time.