Ocd

[Manc]

I wouldn't class myself as suffering with OCD but I've always had tendencies, tendencies that have certainly been exacerbated by lockdown life. It's all very small time like hoovering just to feel more comfortable even though it doesn't really need doing. Everything having it's place in the fridge for reasons I can't fathom. Ensuring furniture is equidistant to one another. The title of this thread.

Anyone else a full time loser?

[randomlegend]

I have a minor thing about symmetry but not other than that. Girl definitely has tendencies (she used to do things as a kid like having to count all the street lamps every night before bed or she thought something bad would happen) but it's not full-blown OCD.

[Spikey M]

I had some compulsions as a teenager brought on by my mum having Cancer. I'd have to do things in a set way or I was semi-convinced my mum would die. I knew it was bullshit but I guess doing it made me feel like I had some control over the situation (even though I obviously didn't).

I don't have anything like that these days aside from checking the doors are locked an unnecessary amount of times before bed / going out.

[Baz]

No, I’m normal.

[Spikey M]

No, I’m normal.

Let's not push it.

[Reg]

I have a little OCD, used to have a lot. Cleaning habits have been exaggerated by Covid (despite knowing that surface transmission isn't a big scary possibility). I think the control thing mentioned by Spikey contributes to a lot of mine.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The only OCDishness that I have is that the volume always has to be on an even number.

[niko_cee]

I still tap the top of cans before opening them.

[Ian]

I still tap the top of cans before opening them.

I do this but I think it's habit from childhood rather than a compulsion.

That said one day during lockdown I absent-mindedly did it to a tin of beans before opening them which worried me a bit.

[Lofty]

The only OCDishness that I have is that the volume always has to be on an even number.

You mean a end in a 5 or a 0.

[Shindig]

If I'm getting a glass of water from the office kitchen, I have to nurse it on the way back to the desk. Having a mask on ruins that compulsion but now I just get more self-conscious I'm going to spill it or drop the glass entirely.

[Lewis]

Of all the things for you to be self-conscious about at work.

[Baz]

Why aye lads, Lynx has spilled his water again.

[igor_balis]

Wow so the person who thinks any of my anecdotes where something vaguely unexpected happens must be made up has autism, shocker.

[Lewis]

'i always line the milks up with the main logo facing away from me and have to pass them out clockwise and...'

[Panda Bear]

Do you have intrusive thoughts? You know, like getting vivid images of smashing your dog's head in with your foot every time you gingerly step over her?

If you don't make the furniture equidistant, do you experience intense mental anguish?

[Lofty]

I have bouts of recurring intrusive thoughts of suicide, but I recognise these are usually because I am stressed by underlying factors. The only way I would go through with it is suicide by burger.

[SincereTheRebel]

Cables.

They must be cable tied together and hidden if possible.