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Anyone else here suffer from OCD?

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Dari

Lifer
Ten years after graduating and I'm still having nightmares about courses in undergrad where I rarely went to class. These were real analysis, complex analysis, and a literature class on religion. I keep having dreams of missing homeworks and forgetting exams. Ironically, I got an A in all these courses but I'm tempted to retake them at a local college to see what I may have missed. I also have a bunch of newpapers and magazines going back several months I keep around in my home office until I've read every single article in them. I also keep getting rid of house-cleaners because I find imperfections in their work. My wife is a worse cleaner so I do all that myself. Speaking of work, I like to read everything, which slows me down but leads to better results.

All of this is very exhausting, more mentally than physically.
 
I suffer because my wife sometimes is. It's not a 100% of the time, but she gets bad on occasion. She has those same dreams frequently...just fired our house cleaner because of imperfections...Complains when she has to do housework, but constantly chooses to do housework even when there isn't anything I can see that NEEDs to be done. (but I am a dude...I don't see what she sees)
 
I love when people say "I'm so OCD because I need to keep my room clean " That is not OCD disorder. A true disorder is when it starts to negatively affect every part of your life. .

As for me I'm a clean freak. Things have got to be in order. Does that make me OCD? Nope.
 
Mai72 said:
I love when people say "I'm so OCD because I need to keep my room clean " That is not OCD disorder. A true disorder is when it starts to negatively affect every part of your life. .

As for me I'm a clean freak. Things have got to be in order. Does that make me OCD? Nope.
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Thank you for understanding hyperbole and colloquialism.
 
No. I keep my mind in my body. Since it's mine and I control it, it does what I say. Not the other way around.
 
I'm like that. I have to have stuff I care about "just so" or it drives me nuts. I'll spend a week trying to fix the tiniest squeak or rattle in my car.
 
Mai72 said:
I love when people say "I'm so OCD because I need to keep my room clean " That is not OCD disorder. A true disorder is when it starts to negatively affect every part of your life. .

As for me I'm a clean freak. Things have got to be in order. Does that make me OCD? Nope.
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Mai72 said:
I love when people say "I'm so OCD because I need to keep my room clean " That is not OCD disorder. A true disorder is when it starts to negatively affect every part of your life. .

As for me I'm a clean freak. Things have got to be in order. Does that make me OCD? Nope.
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This bothers me too having known some people that battled with the actual disorder.

I had some worrying issues when I was a kid, but nothing that would probably get a diagnosis.
 
Dari said:
Ten years after graduating and I'm still having nightmares about courses in undergrad where I rarely went to class. These were real analysis, complex analysis, and a literature class on religion. I keep having dreams of missing homeworks and forgetting exams. Ironically, I got an A in all these courses but I'm tempted to retake them at a local college to see what I may have missed.

Obsession involves missing classes or knowledge? Desire to retake is compulsion?

I also have a bunch of newpapers and magazines going back several months I keep around in my home office until I've read every single article in them.

Obsession is missing knowledge? Compulsion is reading?

I also keep getting rid of house-cleaners because I find imperfections in their work. My wife is a worse cleaner so I do all that myself. Speaking of work, I like to read everything, which slows me down but leads to better results.

Obsession is dirty areas? Compulsion is making sure it's read?

All of this is very exhausting, more mentally than physically.
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Not a psychiatrist or psychologist, but from the above, I see control-freak perfectionist more than OCD. Maybe a touch of hoarding?


Let me give an example of more extreme OCD : I touched my camera which I touched after touching USB cables that commonly have PVC coatings which contain lead. I experience severe anxiety about hands contaminated my lead. If I don't wash my hands, I may breathe or swallow the lead inadvertently, which will make me stupid. Until I wash my hands, I am not happy and the thought can bother me for hours.
 
Imp said:
Not a psychiatrist or psychologist, but from the above, I see control-freak perfectionist more than OCD. Maybe a touch of hoarding?


Let me give an example of more extreme OCD : I touched my camera which I touched after touching USB cables that commonly have PVC coatings which contain lead. I experience severe anxiety about hands contaminated my lead. If I don't wash my hands, I may breathe or swallow the lead inadvertently, which will make me stupid. Until I wash my hands, I am not happy and the thought can bother me for hours.
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I don't hoard the newspapers. They go into the trash once I'm done. I just have a compulsion to finish it, 100% or else I feel I'm missing something. Also, as for the class, I feel I missed something, perhaps that's what the dreams are about. They happen often enough that I feel inclined to actually take the course again, even though that'll do nothing for me. Also, yes, I have my own idiosyncratic rituals and it involves the number 3. Some things have to be done that many times. And odd compulsion but it feels like a tradition at this point.
 
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