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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/2/2011 5:45:26 PM   
Kalista07


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Status: offline 		As I was reading this I was beginning to feel like I had really made a great deal of progress.........

but it occurs to me I wonder if I've actually just really become lazy and gotten okay with that.

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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/2/2011 5:58:32 PM   
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I am by no means a great speller, or use proper grammar a lot of the time, but it kinda drives me crazy when people use the wrong words.... such as, their/there, where/wear, use/used, to/too you get the idea.

There's more but I have to go fold my panties

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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/2/2011 7:27:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		When I tap my fingers, they all eventually have to get tapped in an equal amount and equal pressure.



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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/2/2011 8:37:52 PM   
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When I tap my fingers, they all eventually have to get tapped in an equal amount and equal pressure.




OMG! Me too!

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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/2/2011 8:54:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		Every night before I go to sleep I have to check that I have my ipod, my work badge, and my debit cards in my purse. I check my alarm three times to make sure it is going to go off and I go outside and check and make sure that my car is locked. If I do not do this then I cannot sleep.

Every night before I leave work I walk around the lab three times making sure all instruments are off and all of the gases are turned off.

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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/2/2011 9:27:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, I bite my nails although I have gotten that down to only biting 2 nails.

I can only use pens that I can actually write with (harder than it sounds at times).

I am a compulsive hand washer, after i handle anything like meat or fish, etc, after i go to the bathroom, before I eat.

I fold my dollar bills in half, then in half again and they are in order by denomination with the smallest on the outside.

I have to go on the internet first thing in the morning and see what i missed while i was sleeping.

I have to fold my socks to keep 1 left with 1 right (since socks always get "pointy" on one or the other side).

My magazines must be in alphabetical order (then by issue date) on the bookshelf, books arranged by subject, then alphabetical.

I must have my Saturday & Sunday newspapers and I clip articles and save the Home/Real Estate/Business sections. Each section has a box that it is stored in. My clipped articles are filed (by subject).

Drawers and doors on cabinets must be shut tight.

Toilet paper must roll the correct way (from the top/front, not from underneath).

I hate spelling errors so if there is a word i am not sure of i have to check the spelling.

I must always either back in or pull forward thru 2 parking spots so that my vehicle faces out (I feel its much safer when I leave to pull forward rather than back up into someone). I hate angle parking and avoid it as much as possible. Because of needing to pull thru 2 spots, I park a million miles from everyone else & walk further to the store, etc.

Edited for spelling

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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/3/2011 2:02:02 AM   
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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/3/2011 6:13:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		One of the things that happened to me when I started to travel was all the quirky things like those on this list just melted away.  I no longer could be fussy about x, y, and z because ... guess what... There's no toilet seat - and you're lucky if there's a toilet.  Let's not talk about soap and water to wash with.  And I hate those anti bacterial things - make my skin dry.  Blech.  So I let it go.  In Korea, it's come back somewhat but I still find myself saying meh.  I don't care. 

I used to be the bra and panties match girl.  If they didn't, I just didn't wear panties.  (Problem solved!  Everything matches skin color!)  Now?  I don't have the luxury of buying underthings except once a year (I don't like to buy bras without trying them on).  I've become deadly dull in that arena.  If it fits, I buy it.  I usually buy a dozen or so every year when I go home.  Then I toss out a few, and I have enough.  Until next year.   *sigh*  The one (count them... one.) store in this whole country that has bras for women larger than a b cup, they don't have my size.  They usually have about a dozen bras total.  Yeah.  uh...  No. 

I'm still fussy about my coffee.  And my pens.  And um.... Oh I prefer Korean chopsticks, so when I go home I take mine with me and then use them.  The people at the Chinese restaurant usually get a kick out of it.  :)  (In case you're wondering, the Chinese ones are made of wood and they are square at the end.  They tend to be much thicker than the Korean ones.  The Korean ones are more dainty and fit my tiny little hands better.)

I always have designated "messy" areas in my world, and the rest?  Not so much.  I do like symmetry, but I'm not so fussy anymore.

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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/3/2011 6:40:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		It used to be that I would make my bed just as soon as I got out of it each morning.
Yes, even if it meant changing the linens. I have sort of gotten over that, but
given the choice, I still don't like to lie on a bed unless all the rumples are straightened out.

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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/3/2011 7:05:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have more than I have time to mention.

My big ones are: my hair HAS to be out of my eyes before I can eat. If I don't have a ponytail holder or hair clip with me, I will actually go without eating because of it.

And lists. I make lists. I have lists everywhere. I have whiteboards on my living room walls to make lists on

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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/3/2011 8:03:02 AM   
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Tj444 your avatar is so cute!

Yes, I just wish I had designed it, its so clever and silly and cute. It cracks me up every time I see it and makes me smile no matter my mood, hope it makes everyone else smile too.

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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/3/2011 8:36:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		I cannot begin work at my desk/workspace until everything there is in order, as I see it. When I work the front desk at the library, I straighten everything and put things away and get it exactly as I want it before I start. When I leave the desk, I have a process of doing everything I need to before I can leave. If someone hurries in to take my place, I feel mildly stressed because I need to do those things before I leave.

It's the same in my own office. Before I leave for the day, everything on my desk must be in a certain order before I feel comfortable leaving. I don't think I'm so obvious about it that most people even notice but, back in high school, my best friend used to tease me about doing that and having to "touch" everything in sight and make sure it was perfect before I'd leave my desk. It just bothers me not to........luci

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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/3/2011 1:07:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Books - in alphabetical order by author within categories.

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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/3/2011 3:16:05 PM   
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Books - in alphabetical order by author within categories.


Ha ha ha... I can't even imagine that! 


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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/3/2011 5:21:20 PM   
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Books - in alphabetical order by author within categories.

Rawtape, I'm a librarian. That isn't OCD. That's the ONLY way to do it
luci

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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/3/2011 7:21:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have an order with which I do tasks in the shower:

1.wash hair
2.put conditioner on hair
3.wash and shave upper body parts
4.wash and shave lower body parts
5, rinse conditioner out of hair

I do not deviate from the above, because if I did I might forget one...

There is nothing else I am particularly OCD about. I used to have more rituals, but I am fairly ritual-lite these days

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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/3/2011 7:26:56 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: rawtape

Books - in alphabetical order by author within categories.


Ha ha ha... I can't even imagine that! 



My brother's DVD collection (which covers 4 floor to ceiling bookshelves) has to be in alphabetical order. He knows if someone has went in and watched something and did not put it back... yet the rest of his house looks like a troll lives there


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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/3/2011 7:35:14 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Kalista07

As I was reading this I was beginning to feel like I had really made a great deal of progress.........

but it occurs to me I wonder if I've actually just really become lazy and gotten okay with that.

Kali



I am reading this and thinking "yeah, I am like that too"... in other words, in an ideal universe I load the dishwasher a certain way, I put my dishes away in a certain way, I am very particular about my home and cleaning.OCD runs in my family, so I would not be surprised if I have a touch of it myself.

At the same time, I have gotten lazy. I do not worry about it if it ain't perfect. The only OCD thing I have left is the shower thing, because I would feel very weird and anxious if I did not do it in the right order... which is OCDish. Other than that, I have gotten lax about much of the rest of it.


I decided to stop the perfectionism...lol


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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/3/2011 9:51:08 PM   
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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

quote:

ORIGINAL: sunshinemiss

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ORIGINAL: rawtape

Books - in alphabetical order by author within categories.


Ha ha ha... I can't even imagine that! 



My brother's DVD collection (which covers 4 floor to ceiling bookshelves) has to be in alphabetical order. He knows if someone has went in and watched something and did not put it back... yet the rest of his house looks like a troll lives there



My father has a big DVD collection that he has alphabetical... Sweets wanted to mess with him one day, so while my dad was at work, he went in and (I know this will bother Luci too) put in a "The Section".. In the Ts, there was a section of movies that started with the word The. The Astronaut's Wife was of course before The Game and stuff like that, but there was a "The Section", and it took him no time to realize it and fix it... lol

I am the same way with the cupboards and things. Sweets and I were taking the shelves out of ours so that I could put new contact paper on them, and while I was on the floor covering the shelves, he was taking them out... But leaving the doors open. It was really bothing me, but it was so sweet that he was helping me, that I turned my back to him, took a deep breath and tried not to notice.

My socks can NOT match... The only way that I will wear matching socks is if they are just white. And I only wear them when I know they will get really dirty. That way I can bleach them. But my colored socks can not match. I fold them together not matching.

I also fold my underwear. But if you had an ass as big as mine, and used single man tents for underwear, you would fold them up before putting them away too....

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RE: What "ocd" habits do you have? - 7/3/2011 10:01:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am anal about many things, but not OCDish, which to me is like ritualistic checking behaviors... I do not go there.

My brother has other areas he does checking....

My sister has several obsessions and compulsions. She worries about overfilling her tub, and even though she does not take baths anymore she will go home to check and make sure the tub was not left on (she flooded her house once and it screwed with her brain). When I say my family is OCD, I mean it... I am possibly the least OCD person in my family because I refuse to check things... I do not want to go down that road, I would rather burn my house down than become a checker.




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