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Have any of you got a OCD


I have one which is
I always have to go back and check I've locked the doors
even when I go to bed before I go to sleep
I have to come down stairs and check the front door :-)

what is your OCD

Where do I start lol :-D :-D :-D ;-)

at the beginning mersey hun xx

I know I have locked the doors I just have to check :-D :-D

Im abit like you with the locking of doors.....

Also I cannot stand if there is a drawer sticking out, not level.....

I used to be really bad for certain things

:-S

I straighten other peoples pictures Mesrey
but that could be because I did a interior design course

Yep. Checking the doors. I think it's just being security conscious isn't it?

Checking that the oven and gas hob are off but again, security and safety because OH has been known to leave keys in the door and a gas ring on.

I think genealogists have OCD :-D

I wish I had one to make sure my door keys leave the house with me.

I have spares with 2 neighbours, 3 daughters and my sister now......I am forever forgetting them :-S :-S

The amount of times I have trawled from house to house to get a spare so I can get in is growing almost monthly.......I might fix one to my bra every morning, just in case :-D :-D

Just like in that creepy movie, I have to have the towels aligned just perfectly. Wardrobe doors always to be closed when I go to bed...pictures on walls...Joy, you must have been sitting on your hands when yyou visited me cos I am told all my pictures are crooked. *scoffs...well it's an old house and the walls are crooked not the pictures!! :-D

Once - I have grown out of it - I had to peg out the washing with coloured plastic pegs in the correct rainbow order if I found I had a colour I'd missed in the peg-bag I would go back to the beginning and start again

Is this an OCD?......I have to be early to anywhere I go.....I set my alarm an hour before I need to........I have to leave the house spot on the time I have planned to......If I run late for even a minute, I go into stress mode....When I arrive at my destination....even if there is enough time.....I am so stressed out because things haven't gone to plan, that it takes me ages to get back to normal.

Elizabeth I showed some of my friends some photos of my garden
and they laughed that all my pegs where in order of colour
I had never even noticed I did this I think

maybe we all have some sort of OCD
I thought I was the only one
Susan wiv numbers
I also have to be early rather than been late
I think been late is s bad manners
At the London meet we were late and it did my nut in

BC **holds head in shame **
while you where in the kitchen I straightened them ;-) ;-)
I really felt comfortable in your home you made us so welcome
Baby Satan felt the same he wanted to come back the very next day
he enjoyed himself that much

Kitty Stray has to have a key here mind she loses everything
Island maybe your right next time my butler complains
I have to get out the car to check the doors
are locked I will just say its a health and safety issue lol ;-) ;-)

Oh heck I have a washing 'thing' as well. It has to be pegged out in a certain way, I don't put the coloured pegs in a particular order, but I can't have 2 pegs of the same colour next to each other :-S

I have to straighten things up, like coaster to put your cup on and also cushions etc and I have to have my curtains a certain way aswell......

Jules....

Elizabeth- I'm a bit like that with colour coordinating pegs to items on the line :-D :-D

..and I do the colours in a sequence! Definitely not 2 of the same colour together when other colours are involved.If I have (for example) a tea towel, white with blue stripes, I put 2 blue pegs in it, and so on :-D :-D SAD OR WHAT :-D :-D :-D

Perhaps all genealogists have a "peg thing"? :-S :-S :-S :-D :-D :-D

I thought my mother was the only person who colour co-ordinated the washing with the pegs! The pegs had to match the garment, or if there were no pegs to match the garment, the pegs had to match!

She re-pegged my washing many times, said it looked untidy :-S

You can probably guess, I don't care what pegs I use. :-D

Not sure if this is an OCD (my brother says I'm anal :-( ).... but I MUST have all the herbs & spices jars in alphabetical order.... because it's easier to find them.

My old chum suffers somewhat & from childhood too.

Several of the signs mentioned here are obvious. But, to those who have no knowledge of OCD, they think he is a bit weird - which is sad.

Loud speech is one of his many traits & he is a poor listener or conversationalist unless, of course, the chatter is on his favourite subjects - history & football. He has an excellent memory but poor person-to-person interaction.

And don't get me going about his table manners - like an untrained child.

But I'm getting used to his oddities having known him since 1989. He has no siblings & is now 51.

That's just being practical Lady Scozz :-) :-)

I don't colour coordinate pegs and washing but I do have a certain order that washing goes on the whirly line. It is one of the jobs OH and I can't share because he slings them on the line in any order. I also have small older pegs and newer larger ones. The small ones have to be used first to put socks and undies on the inner lines and the larger pegs on bigger things on the outside, so when the washing is taken in I have to do it in reverse, moving all the bigger items firsts, smalls last so the small pegs end up on top.drives me mad if he does it and the pegs are mixed. I say it is being practical but now I am not so sure.
I also straighten pictures, and we are always well on time or early.

The strange thing is I am not a particularly tidy person.

I am not a tidy person to but much more tidy then the butler
I wait till he is in bed and often reclaim the kitchen
his rubbish opps I mean treasure goes in the garage ;-) ;-)

You people are lucky that your 'OCD's' are minor in that they don't impact too badly on your lives. If you have something happen that will push your stress limits higher, they could escalate into more but at the mo they are idiosyncrasies.

My ocd is hoarding and that really impacts onto my life. People try to talk to me logically about why I do or don't need to hang on to something, but one side of my brain, the ocd side ignores the logic, and is the hardest to cope with.

Dermot, your friend sounds more like he is on the autistic spectrum and certainly those traits he has will impact on his life and the acceptance of others. His actions don't sound like obsessive compulsive disorders.

Lizx