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The 'pulling my hair out' thread got me thinking. Does anyone here suffer from OCD, whether it's diagnosed or not.
Midway through my short lived and crud 'relationship' with ex, i think i had a quick mental implosion. I started counting the strokes of letters and numbers in my head, if i could not occupy my mind with anything else.
Eg: the word 'HELLO' H has 3 strokes, E=4, L=2 etcetc. I add the five numbers together, then again for each letter so the total of HELLO is 12, then plus 5+4+3+2+1 then another for the whole thing because there are 5 letters.
Another eg: the numbers 1352978. 1=1 stroke 3=2 strokes 5=3 2=2 9=2 7=2 8=1. 1+2+3+2+2+2+1 = 13. Then like the first example add the 13 to 1+2+3+4+5+6+7 (because there are 7 numbers)
Ok it sound really bad, and extremely hard to explain, but it takes only a few seconds to calculate it all in my mind. Maybe i'm the female rainman lol. I sound like a freak. But this all popped up because i was trying to ignore the fact i was not getting treated nicely by the ex and i needed my brain to think of other things.
There's no other things, some days i'm messy, some clean etc, but i'm not obsessive with it.
What kind of weirdness ocd do you guys have?
Midway through my short lived and crud 'relationship' with ex, i think i had a quick mental implosion. I started counting the strokes of letters and numbers in my head, if i could not occupy my mind with anything else.
Eg: the word 'HELLO' H has 3 strokes, E=4, L=2 etcetc. I add the five numbers together, then again for each letter so the total of HELLO is 12, then plus 5+4+3+2+1 then another for the whole thing because there are 5 letters.
Another eg: the numbers 1352978. 1=1 stroke 3=2 strokes 5=3 2=2 9=2 7=2 8=1. 1+2+3+2+2+2+1 = 13. Then like the first example add the 13 to 1+2+3+4+5+6+7 (because there are 7 numbers)
Ok it sound really bad, and extremely hard to explain, but it takes only a few seconds to calculate it all in my mind. Maybe i'm the female rainman lol. I sound like a freak. But this all popped up because i was trying to ignore the fact i was not getting treated nicely by the ex and i needed my brain to think of other things.
There's no other things, some days i'm messy, some clean etc, but i'm not obsessive with it.
What kind of weirdness ocd do you guys have?