Crazy things youve done because of OCD.

QUEEN_SJO · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:37 am Post subject:

THERE R SO MANY SCARY SITUATIONS WIT OCD. I REMEMBER WHN I WAS YOUNGER MY OCD COMPELLED MY 2 GRAB A KNIFE AND WALK UP 2 MY GRANDMOTHER WIT IT BCUZ THE THOT WULDNT LEAVE SO I NEEDED HER 2 STOP ME 4RM ACTUALLY DOIN IT AND ASSURE ME I WULDNT.
BUT WHO NOS WHT WULDVE HAPPENED IF SHE DDNT UNDERSTAND MY OCD OR NOTICE WHT I WAS DOIN
I ALSO REMEMBER MAKING MY MOM SAY "NO" A LOT AT RANDOM TIMES 2 REVERSE THINGS THT HAPPENED OR SUMTHNG SUM1 SAID. I HAD 2 SAY NO THN SHE HAD 2 SAY NO THEN I WULD DO THIS WEIRD HOLDING MY BREATH FOR A FEW SECS AND SAY OK.

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Thatsgranderful · Newbie User Joined: Apr 12, 2008 Posts: 11

IanMcElroy · Newbie User Joined: Apr 15, 2008 Posts: 1

hello everyone. I'm a highschool student with OCD and am also doing a seminar for my sociology class on it and was wondering if anyone who has OCD and has suffered with workplace compatability due to it would allow me an interview over a forum or msn. Of course nicknames and aliases for both yourself and your workplace are entirely acceptable and you need not divulge anything your not comfortable with. at the end of the interview you may decide what, if any, information I should exclude from submission. thanx for your time Smile

dottie · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:53 pm Post subject:

mre33 · Newbie User Joined: Apr 28, 2008 Posts: 3

anyone with an obsession about writing their name? i sometimes will sign my name all over everything until i feel i have perfectly signed it. Even then when i go to sign some legal document i will practice sign on a scratch paper to make sure i'm going to do it right on the document. Once i started doing it on the back of a test in elementary....teacher was a bit confused...side note i have caught myself doin mario thing as well.... bizarre way to entertain urself but it's really annoying when someone starts talkin to you and then you realize you just forgot to jump over about 10 poles so ur start looking behind you and jumping in super mario speed to catch up....

princess_haru · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 6:52 am Post subject:

Woah, I used to do the invisible thread thing all the time when I was little, and I never thought anyone else would do the same thing! Shocked

If I went out shopping with my family I always felt a lot happier if we took the same route home so that my thread didn't become tangled around something. It was more of an energy trail than a literal thread, even though I visualised it as a thread. If it became tangled I felt as if part of my energy was left behind, stuck in the places I'd been!

I also used to have recurring dreams about a spool of thread unravelling across a blank landscape. I'd be running after it, trying to keep it from tangling, but it always ended up in a knotted mess and I'd wake up feeling panicky. I was probably around 6 or 7 at the time.

The Mario thing... as soon as I read about it I felt a twang of recollection. I'm pretty sure I used to do that, too!

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luckygirlamyg23 · Newbie User Joined: May 05, 2008 Posts: 9

OMG the invisible thread!!! I thought I was the only one who ever did that!!!

Where I live, during the spring time, there are these bushes that grow yellow flowers, and everyone seems to have one. I started counting them...and kept counting for about a month. I think I got up to somewhere near 700, and that's only because I was so scared I had missed one, I'd re-count every single one.

Also, I created an imaginary friend once. After awhile even I got tired of having to maintain him, but I was scared that if I just "deleted" him, I'd somehow be "deleted" as well, so I imagined him taking a job in Milwaukee. Six or seven years later, to this day, I am aware of "Rocko" and his new job, new home, new wife, and two small children. Confused

starfruit212 · Newbie User Joined: May 06, 2008 Posts: 6

I thought that I was alone with the Mario style thing. With me I imagine a little cartoon guy riding a bicycle along the side walk or whatever is beside the road on my side of the car. He has to jump over any sort of obstacles that come in his path but he also has to flip while he is at the highest point of his jump.
This was at its worst when I was a little kid and used to watch my imaginary bike-guy for hours on end in car rides. I actually couldn't stop watching him, if I looked away I felt like I was being irresponsible. I also couldn't think of him jumping and him not doing the little flip in the air. I would try, but every single time he would flip.
I had no idea that other people did something like this. It certainly isn't something that you would ever come across in a list of OCD symptoms.

princess_haru · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject:

It's amazing how many of us have the invisible thread and Mario thing in common! Hmm... maybe these shared imaginings aren't imaginings at all, but some sort of sixth sense we share? Shocked

The invisible thread could be our way of visualising the energy we give off and leave behind us in a trail (which is always the way I've seen it really)! Not sure what the Mario thing could mean... anyone?

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luckygirlamyg23 · Newbie User Joined: May 05, 2008 Posts: 9

I used to do the "Mario" thing too, and my head hurts just thinking about it lol. He used to ride a motorcycle along the power lines, or he'd be running along the tops of the other cars and somersaulting from lane to lane. I'm still trying to figure that one out!

The invisible thread thing, I'm working on. But, if I ever get into trouble, at least I'll be able to tell the cops EXACTLY where I was! Very Happy