Do you have OCD?

[nintendofan85]

OCD is really debilitating, I feel this question was asked so casually. o.o

My boyfriend's brother has really bad OCD and he can't do anything with his life. He's 31 years old and can't even go out in the world because of his severe germaphobe OCD. This is a guy who went from being at the top of his class and graduating from prestigious universities to become a lawyer (passed the Bar exam and all) to isolating himself all day in his room in his parent's house having these really insane cleansing rituals. He refuses to get help and becomes quite violent and physical when you try to intervene in his life to try to help.

I've been dating my boyfriend for years, we even plan to get married, and his brother still refuses to meet me. My boyfriend's parents are so depressed over this. It's really such a shame.

Wow... This is something that I find quite striking, considering I plan on going to law school myself...

 

[Fey]

He has mental illness, point blank. You can't reason with people who have mental illness.

This might be true in his case, but that?s a very generalized statement.

 

[Tessie]

This might be true in his case, but that’s a very generalized statement.

That's true, I thought of that after I posted the comment! Many times, it's difficult to reason with people with mental illness I mean.
Sorry!

 

[Jessy_Azran]

That's true, I thought of that after I posted the comment! Many times, it's difficult to reason with people with mental illness I mean.
Sorry!

Well I can understand you, the social media and television uses so many stereotypes, I guess you're innocent in this situation...

 

[Fey]

That's true, I thought of that after I posted the comment! Many times, it's difficult to reason with people with mental illness I mean.
Sorry!

It?s fine, no worries I honestly already thought that you probably didn?t mean to speak that broadly. I just pointed it out because many people unfortunately do think that?s true.

 

[Hat']

I think I may have a form of OCD or something?
Like one of the most noticeable thing I do is that I have to walk up my stairs in a very specific way. I have to climb up 3 steps, then 2, then 1 and then two until I'm all the way up here.
I have other little things like this such as setting my alarm. I have to push the button while closing my eyes and if I don't see the time I wake up at on the screen I have to start over, it can be quite annoying as most of the time I'm not in a comfortable position to do this, and since I have one chance out of two to see the time I'm waking up at, it can be quite long sometimes.
Other than that it's just some things that happen but aren't something that I do daily. If I don't do them I won't die (I used to think I would when I was younger), but my day won't be good.

 

[Jessy_Azran]

I think I may have a form of OCD or something?
Like one of the most noticeable thing I do is that I have to walk up my stairs in a very specific way. I have to climb up 3 steps, then 2, then 1 and then two until I'm all the way up here.
I have other little things like this such as setting my alarm. I have to push the button while closing my eyes and if I don't see the time I wake up at on the screen I have to start over, it can be quite annoying as most of the time I'm not in a comfortable position to do this, and since I have one chance out of two to see the time I'm waking up at, it can be quite long sometimes.
Other than that it's just some things that happen but aren't something that I do daily. If I don't do them I won't die (I used to think I would when I was younger), but my day won't be good.

I reckon I would walk up stairs in that order if it was an odd number. The only odd number I like is numbers ending in 0 or 5. It just makes sense if something like the stairs will be even numbers. But it won't kill me, but I prefer to read books with chapters ending in 0 or 5, for instance 15 or 20. And the pages end in the right number.

 

[Becca617]

I don't think I have it personally, but my dad has been diagnosed with it. He has a pretty severe case because it runs his life everyday and it probably takes up hours of his day. I am a germaphobe and it bothers me a ton but it doesn't run my life.

 

[Stalfos]

I can show a little bit of an OCD behaviour when it comes to numbers. Like, I try to stay away from prime numbers, they're trouble. lol If my girlfriend is watching the telly and has the volume set on a prime number, I will change it. It won't kill me not to but it just feels better to do it that way.

 

[Jessy_Azran]

I can show a little bit of an OCD behaviour when it comes to numbers. Like, I try to stay away from prime numbers, they're trouble. lol If my girlfriend is watching the telly and has the volume set on a prime number, I will change it. It won't kill me not to but it just feels better to do it that way.

Yep, I have that problem too! It's so annoying if it's not the right number!

 

[Blood Eclipse]

I really don't know. Possibly? I've never been diagnosed with it before, but medical knowledge expands every year, so maybe a better understanding of the high and lows of ocd symptoms would get me different results by now??? :0

 

[pinkbunny]

I've been told by a therapist in the past that I probably have mild OCD, but it never went further than that. I bite and pick at the skin around my fingers and ankle, I constantly scratch myself too hard, which really sucks.
I too, get intrusive thoughts and compulsively do things which are completely unnecessary.

 

[Sweetley]

I have never been diagnosed with it and I'm sure that I don't have it.

 

[Ghost Of Mascevanje]

I've never been diagnosed, but I think there's a good chance I might have it.

I don't think that I have "autism" or Asperger Syndrome though.

 

[Mezzanine]

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[Mars Adept]

Possibly. I also have a lot of other things.

 

[Dinosaurz]

I don’t have OCD but I do have to do a ritual each night kinda thing before I go to bed (super weird) and I have to do it right or else I start thinking “I will die and something bad will happen if I don’t do it right”.

 

[Mr_Persona]

Nope not at all. But my grandpa acts like he does because he loves cleaning his house a lot and he can get picky with his car. He always make sure everything is perfect, clean, and working. Which is a good habbit for him besides the over do cleaning part.

 

[Shawna]

I am unsure. I feel like having the actual disorder for me is unlikely, but I do have OCD behavior:

* I have to keep checking stuff multiple times to be sure. One thing in particular is the lock to the backyard. There have been times where I swear. I have locked it but I didn’t. I can remember one night a few months ago, my brother got really irritated because of it. (prolly an ADHD thing)

* I tend to ask for reassurance multiple times for a particular thing, which has been known to annoy people.

* I can get intrusive thoughts and anxiety about certain things and bad memories, even if they happened years ago. >_<

* Sometimes I feel like I have to do certain things in a certain way.

But then there’s also stuff I don’t…understand about OCD, so it’s hard to say “oh I probably have it”… I do relate to some of the symptoms, though.

I heard that people who are on the spectrum and have ADHD (which I fall into the former, and could possibly have the latter) tend to have OCD behavior without having the actual disorder. I feel like this could be my situation, but I’m not sure.

Even my dad notices I have OCD behavior. I cannot wait until I get my psychological/mental evaluation in the (hopefully near) future, it’s gonna be an interesting ride, I can say that much.

 

[VernalLapin]

Yes, and it was in fact the reason why I was gone from TBT for about a year and deleted so many of my posts, pinterest boards, files on my computer, destroyed or at least tried to destroy art I made…

It’s just something I was born with. I had an amazing childhood, no trauma so it wasn’t that. I started showing symptoms at age 5 iirc, when I washed my hands in kindergarten so much until they were red. I remember one time we were singing the national anthem and I leaned over into the sink to wash my hands. I got diagnosed shortly after.

I have two main types, contamination and moral. They’ve intertwined a lot.