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Garage Door....return several times a week to make sure I closed it.
Door locks check several times a night to assure they are all secure.
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This is hilarious! A lot of the behavior mentioned has me realizing that I do a lot of things repeatedly... not sure that qualifies as OCD, however; quirky? yeah... curious? sure... but OCD?
I realized in the past couple years, that I count, a lot! Mostly in seconds, like gauging how long I hold a stretch, or checking to see how my internal clock is calibrated to the timer in the microwave... but I will just count, for no apparent reason. I frequently find myself doing it, just because. Or making up things to "measure"... how long does it take for me to walk from here to there, in my tiny home? Can I feed the dog, refill her water bowl, get the half and half out of the 'fridge, all before the microwave finishes pre-warming my coffee cup for 53 seconds? Idiosynchromatic, certainly... still don't know if I'd call it OCD...
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This seems like the perfect thread to make this correction.
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Not quite OCD, bit it would depend on who is doing the diagnosis. It is teetering on the edge. Regarding "counting"... I did a lot of sleep studies (as a patient) at the Sleep Clinic at the University of BC. The main sleep clinic in the country - or it was 30+ years ago. The techs were always amazed when they talked with me in the morning. I could tell them to within 5 seconds how much sleep I had, scattered over 20+ wake/get ups during the night. Normally people are way way off judging how much sleep they get. They almost always think they get less than what they really got. I am (or was) very very close to the tick count. They asked me how. I told them I am constantly counting. Apparently even when I sleep as I rarely get my time signal off the correct/current one. I can (without checking a device) tell what time it is within 10 seconds. Alas, this "gift" (?) has been steadily diminishing over the last five years. Most days I am pretty close, but some days I am waaaay off. My lady friend's kids were fascinated, and were always asking me what time it is. Without doing anything (and I have no smartphone to look at) I would say what time it was. When they asked me how, I told them I have a counter in my head; it goes tick tick tick. That makes me think of that old (perhaps tasteless) joke that ends with: [Thick German accent] "We haf ways of making you talk".
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This thread is bringing out a lot of my special "traits."
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A few of the behaviors listed above are commonly agreed and recognized symptoms of OCD. Nothing extreme though.
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My specialty is carrying paper goods. I know the exact trigger. I went on a date when I was 17, and I was ambushed by cold symptoms (a major school formal dinner and dance). I was without any tissues in my pocket or easy to get Kleenex or paper towels. It made for a miserable date, miserable evening, and never-forgotten lesson - carry tissues. It has turned into a somewhat harmless obsession over the intervening 55 years. OTOH, if I spill something, I'm better prepared than the stereotypical Boy Scout |
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I wear ear plugs every night to sleep. Since my now grown adult children (30 and 27) were babies. Sleep was, and is, precious.
Please don’t tell anyone.
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My lips are sealed. I’m a plugger too. Silence is golden, golden….
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That's not OCD. That's AGF.
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I can never remember if I locked the front door. I sometimes check it three or four times before I can drive away.
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I did that with the tie the left shoe first thing. I had a strong feeling that if I didn't something bad will happen. It took deliberate - I will do the right first, darn it - and persistent efforts to get rid of that feeling. Now, 99.32% of the time I do my shoes randomly. Or whichever one is closest. Yes I know it is a very rare thing for anything to be truly random. Grinding a mirror for a telescope was the biggest help. When you are grinding a mirror you do NOT want to get into a pattern, pushing the grit covered tool. But humans love patterns, so it takes real effort to not do something. The purpose is to make hundreds and hundreds of motions from and to all directions. The aggregate result of all those "random" motions is ONE curve (a parabola).
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