OCD

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okay, I've noticed that there are at least a few people here with OCD tendencies :D so I have a question: what happens if you don't do something that your OCD makes you do?

because for my friend, it causes a nervous breakdown, and for me there just is no "if I don't" :S like, I've never even let in the possibility that I can ignore my OCD.

I'm pretty sure that I have some sort of OCD tendencies. Although I have overcome a lot of it, there are still times when I have to check certain things, or it will continue to bug me until I do them. What I have been doing, is trying to block those things out of my mind, and tell myself that this stuff is senseless and time consuming...it has worked pretty well so far.

I've been put into situations before where Ive been working on something for instance and ive had to stop because i dont have a choice e.g. a power cut or something urgent happens, but even in those situations i still feel compelled to keep working and not stop what i was doing and i stop being able to think of anything and just feel "trapped" like im tense and cant breath even though i am breathing, ive had people literally drag me away before because i couldnt stop and that just made me crack.

It depends on the specific repeated action. I count all the time, even when watching TV. It always occurs in the background and it is impossible to stop it. Another OCD is washing hands repeatedly after handling things. Thankfully this is not as compulsive as some people so I guess I wash my hands around 30 times a day - a certain amount of logic and self control stops this getting out of hand .

I'm one of the most logical and most self-controlled of anyone I know, but I'm also probably the most OCD xD so I don't know what that means.

I have been diagnosed with severe OCD and I know that if I ignore a compulsion, a million thoughts will shoot into my head (not literally... ouch). It is not impossible to stop yourself doing a compulsion however it is extremely difficult.

for me I've never even thought about the possibility of not doing something that my OCD dictates to me. :S it's like, if I don't speak, I'll be silent. If I don't breath, I'll die. If I don't listen to my OCD.......... I don't know. I just do. there is no "do this or else" because there is no "else" to do.

my OCD tendencies are what led me to asperger's....

I don't get harsh OCD tendencies unless under extreme stress.... having an arguement over dishes and having a roommate take my hand and move it with the scrub-brush around on the plate (which made my hand touch wet old food) resulted in my washing every dish 3 times with a fresh paper towel each time... before placing it in the dishwasher (which is why i wasn't scrubbing it hard in the first place, our dishwasher worked wonderfully)

I do my daily repetitive stuff out of many different reasons.... seperating these reasons out has helped me tone down the ones that are harmful to daily life....

I have 3 bottles of liquid to drink lined up on my desk during all of my night classes.... I don't bother with this one, it helps keep me hydrated...

I wash my hands after touching icky stuff... i just do... I can tone this down to washing my hands after finishing alllll of the gardening, or alllll of the dishes.... but while cooking, everytime i switch between touching one type of food and the next, I wash my hands... i think it is sensory, but some is also not wanting to mix my chicken germ hands with the spoon for the corn...

I don't get "bad-thoughts" if i don't do them.... my hands just feel "icky" and i want to wash them... and I get dehydrated and look for my water and it's not there (this actually depresses me... i miss my water when it is gone)

I can handle my OCD tendencies not being meet although I will dwell on it for a while.

I have OCD (though I'm not a compulsive handwasher or neat freak), but my actions fall along the lines of going through certain rituals to calm myself down after a bout of anxiety. I put on makeup, even in the middle of the night if I can't sleep, because the ritual of doing so eases my tension. I also count things, straighten pictures, push in chairs that are pulled away from a table or otherwise askew, and sort things by coloration (all my clothes in my closet are arranged by color), ranging from the 'cool' spectrum to the colors on the 'warm' end of the spectrum, with black clothes/items at the end of the warm colors and white at the beginning of the cool ones. Weird, I know, but that's what pleases. There are many things like this that occur during a given day in my life, but I'd have a mile-long post if I listed them all.

I stop everything going on until it gets done. For example, I NEVER touch anything inside a bus, I either stand and lean against a pole, or sit and put my hands in my clothing. If I do touch something, then I won't touch that part of my body anywhere else unless I've washed it..

I have OCD, BIG TIME. Not so much in terms of actions but definitely OC thoughts.

To those of you who somewhat have it under control, are you on meds? I'm fighting against my compulsions without it at the moment and it's very hard.

I don't have it under control at all, but it usually makes me do good things :D even though there's a few ridiculous ones. :S

With mine, it's less a case of 'not doing' the thing, and more a case of merely 'putting it of'. I can stop myself doing it immediately, but it will not shift from my mind until I indulge it.

For example, at work I am doing an ongoing task of resetting the properties for about 1200 online folders. After I've done one, I go back in and look at it to make sure I did it right. This was taking up a lot of time, so I decided to just look at it before I close it and then move on without going back to check. So I did that... made SURE it was done, closed it, went on to the next one... did a few more... twitch twitch... tried to keep going... finally caved in and went back to check that older one again, just to be sure, even though I KNEW it was done. I know how silly little things like that are, but that's compulsions for you.

Little things like that, all the time, every day.

(I am better about my obsessional/routine tendencies since starting on a low dose of Cipralex, however. It's calmed me down a lot.)

It depends. Sometimes if it doesn't happen, for awhile I no longer do that and pick up something else. It usually goes back. Sometiems I freak out.