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KitEKats4Eva!;1503878 said:
Actually, I wondered if that would come up when I started this thread. I also have an element of genuine OCD. I have Bipolar Disorder and it's commonly understood that there is quite an element of OCD within that disorder.
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I've worked with a few people diagnosed with Bi-Polar Disorder and OCD. Most recently was with one who has to do everything perfectly. If not, she has panic attacks. I think she's gotten better about it, but still has trouble with that.

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

I must have everything in alphabetical order..anything that can be in that order, must be.
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Somehow I see you organizing your children: Adam, Barnabas, Cammile, Doug....
Actually now that I think about it...my step-dad used to do that! And all 4 of his kids start with the letter A!

Originally Posted by Zissou'sMom

Anyway, I absolutely cannot leave a microwave if someone has stopped it early and it says anything but the time.
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I'm with you there too!

Originally Posted by Graciecat

I have to touch every light switch three times before I go into a room and when I'm leaving the room.
I count every step I take...
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I do everything in even numbers, mostly 4, 8 or 20 times. And I've counted my steps for so long I catch myself doing it subconciously. I remember doing it for fun as a kid, along with the jumping over cracks (or I'd break my mother's back). I think that's where I picked up thoes lovely habits, though I don't do them all the time.
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I already posted one but i forgot to add that everynight I will lay in bed and if i cant remember if someone locked the doors or anything I get up and check mind u I do this numerous times...I make sure the pops not to tight so my mom can open it and well thats alot of runs downstairs....and i make sure the oven is off not as much as checking the back door i check that at least 10 times at night as well with the pop
i was reading some other posts and it dawned on me
it sux tho because I will check almost every time I lay down and i also check to make sure there are no dogs left out even tho i let them in and i check the back door a lot of times for midnight even if hes in
 
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This thread sounds like you're talking about me.
I have alot of the same habits I've read here, like the mircowave checking (honey leaves it with time on it and it drive me nuts!) I check umpteen numbers of times to make sure the cats are all inside and not out on the porches before I shut the doors, and then again after I shut them. I check the doors to make sure they are locked at LEAST 5 times or more before I go to bed, I have to clean the toilet if someone I don't know comes in and uses it (like one of DH's friends that I don't know very well). I don't like clutter, it drives me crazy.
I hate anyone folding my clothes/towels noone does it right but me. DH tried it once and I took them away and refolded them. I won't let anyone else wash my laundry either. I have to have the dishes in the dishwasher a certain way or I'll take them out and redo them. Dh says I have to have the bed made in a certain way or I'll reamake it. I buy at least one extra of everything because I don't ever want to run out, and when the first thing gets low, I will get more of it. I panic if the toilet paper gets low, same with the laundry detergent and dishwashing detergent. Right now I have 5 Cascades in the cabinet. I don't know why. At work, I'll order extras of things we hardly use just so we have them.
 
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alex makes our bed like a nazi. corners folded and everything. I cant handle socks not being rolled into balls. and i have a phobia of geese and chickens. There have been a few times where ive climbed up a tree while alex chases them away!

but i guess there aren't many things i need to have "just so"
 
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I actually have OCD too. It doesn't involve stuff like cleaning for me. I have to check to make sure the doors are locked and all the way closed, Charlies cage is locked, the bird rooms door is all the way closed lol, the stove is off, the light in the bathroom is off, stuff like that before I go to sleep. I usually end up doing that a couple times before I can get to sleep. Its annoying.
 
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wow, maybe this is all linked to being cat owners


I have discussed this with a good friend who works in this field, she says that "door / locks or any type of security " checking , unless associated with other OCD habits and/or excessive checking, is not necessarily classed as OCD, cos security & safety is a strong human instinct, especially within todays societies. She also says that this subject is just vast and it can be hard to treat as each person "reason" for the condition vary so vastly...............ummm anyway all very fascinating, theres tons of stuff about it......

mine.......think I only have the one

I like the loo-roll paper to hang at the front - and like another poster have to change ANY loo-roll I come across thats hanging from the back
 
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Basically most of those tests are just do you know if you have to talk to a doctor or not. My doctor/therapist said that if your obsessions or compulsions take up an hour or more of your day and interfere with with your day you probably have some level of OCD.
 
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oh i thought of a couple more i have.
i have really bad allergies, so i have to take a couple of medicines each day. for some reason i think that i will die if i take more then one a day (even though i know i wont) so before i take my medicine, i have ot sit there and go over my day to be POSITIVE that i havn't taken my medicine, even though i know i already havn't!!! it's a really annoying habit but i cant seem to stop...dont know if this is OCD related or not...
oh and every morning i MUST look out the window, even though i already know what i'm gonna see...
 
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I do make lists of errands to run as its 20 miles from home and I don't want to forget a task. (working on one for tomorrow)
The worst thing I did was I couldn't remember if the garage door shut after I backed the vehicle out. So I would be up to a mile away-I'd turn around and check (it was ALWAYS CLOSED!!!) Anyhow I changed my routine to backing out of garage, hit the closer button, put on seat belt while closing-these last two tasks took about the same time. I then look up -door closed and away I go!!
 
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