Aspergers and Obsessive Compulsive

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How many of you on this message board would say that you consider yourself to be at least mildly obsessive compulsive?

I've got OCD (the mental illness); it's known as a common co-morbid condition to AS/AD, like bipolar.

There's the personality disorder too, but that ain't me.

It all adds to the fun.

I don't know which is the "worst" one to have (OCD versus AS/AD); they both suck.

I'm OCD all the way. Unfortunately.

I fit the criteria for Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD), not really OCD.

http://www.biologicalunhappiness.com/DSM-OCPD.htm

i have gone through obsessive compulsive cycles over certain things in the past ever since I was a kid.
But right now, not so much....

I used to think I had OCD because it's been mentioned to my face about me having it and I saw it in my records but then my mother tells me I was never diagnosed with it and I don't have it but she keeps mentioning it and says that's why I'm obsessed with Benny & Joon and Spokane and why I have obsessive compulsive thinking. But I have gone thru OCD phases my whole life like the time when I was 10, I had to wash my hands all the time because I felt dirty and my skin started to crack so my mother had to buy me some lotion, I have had to sit in the same seat everytime when I was a little girl, I hated getting dirty when I was a preteen and I hated sweating. I had to have everything neat and perfect so I cleaned cleaned cleaned all the time and then I learned to be not so dramatic about a few things being out of place when I was 17. I am no longer a perfectionist in my house being neat. God I am so confused I wish my mother would make up her mind. Either I have it or I don't. Next time she mentions that label one more time I will ask her "Wait a minute, you have told me I don't have it and then you turn around and say I do. This is confusing. Make up your mind. Why have you said I have it if I really dont?"

I do!

I was formally diagnosed with OCD in December 1996. I have been taking Prozac for it since then and took Risperdal as well from 1996 until late 2004.

Hm, after reading up on OCD I think it's highly possible I have it.

I'm not sure that I have OCD, but I often have impulses to keep things lined up and occasionally to tap the walls while I walk, among other things.

I haven't been diagnoised wid OCD but i might have it as i do quit a lot of counting such as arrangin furniture, counting da number of steps n seeing tings in angles n fractions.

Ive been diagnosed with OCD and aspergers

Yeah I've got it. It is usually a mild bother, sometimes quite funny, but every now and again it will drive me f**king crazy.

I have OCD, and I'm currently undergoing treatment for it. I don't find it enormously annoying, but it really, really annoys my wife, and so I'm trying to deal with it.

Just FYI, in OCD you feel as if something bad will happen if you don't do the compulsion [that alleviates the anxiety]. You can also have pure obsessions (pure "O"), which cause discomfort but there's nothing you can do that alleviates the anxiety other than avoidance (if avoidance is pertinent to the obsession).

I was diagnosed with OCD in the early/mid 90's, before they were really doing AS diagnosis (at least around here). I definitely have it, and have some aspects of that OCPD too (only heard about OCPD after joining this site).

My OCD symptoms are related to stress. The more freaked out I am, the more I need to do them to relieve stress. Thankfully most of the time they're not bad, and I don't think people notice them. I do go back through doors from time to time, and try to seem casual while doing it so maybe it looks like there's a plausible reason I'm doing it.

I tried a few months ago to see what would happen if I quit doing them. To see if they really don't help anything. But unfortunately, I had a ton of horrible things happen at work right after quiting them, which doesn't help my logical brain convince my emotional brain that it's just nonsense...