What are you obsessive compulsive about?- Page 2

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:00pm

It's like CAMP. I love it!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:01pm

It's okay. I used to have pretty bad OCD but I took Paxil to 'cure' that and some other issues. It actually helped a lot. I used to be so germ-phobic, I couldn't flick a lightswitch without going to wash my hands.

[Liam]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:06pm

i wosh my hands alot.i dont like germs and get grosed out by touching something or looking at smething i think is gross.i wash my hands befor and after i eat and use the bathroom i carry aroud purell and use it after feeling gross.dose that count?

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:07pm

Heroin.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:08pm

I read somewhere where purell was the worst thing for you.

I, on the other hand, know that teh skin on my hands is in good condition and I know that the reason we have skin is to protect ourselves from germs.

I also read somewhere where a dogs mouth is cleaner than your hands - even after you washed them.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:11pm

Ugh, I'm such a grammar nazi. I actually corrected my editor's grammar today when she was writing.

I also compulsively apply cherry Chapstick and almost always have it on me. If I don't any on me when I need it, I get really nervous and all my thoughts are focused on where my Chapstick is and when I can next get to it.

I'm not obsessive about washing my hands, but I am strict. I've worked with children for too long to not understand the importance of it.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:17pm

Oh- I forgot, I am also extremely compulsive with having a watch. Last week my watch was itching and I took it off for the night. The next morning I forgot to put it back on and all day I kept looking at my arm. *I must have looked mightly stupid* I realized that day how many times I actually check the time.
I was freaking out all day. My watch is a part of my body.

[Liam]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:18pm

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:18pm

"If I don't any on me when I need it,"

CALLING THE GRAMMAR NAZI!



Love to the ORANGE!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:18pm

My watch ran out of batteries 3 days ago and I haven't had a chance to buy a new battery or replacement, yet I've still put it on every time I've gone out because I feel naked without it. It's been 5:40pm since Sunday!

Geez, SweetQ, you really bring out the OCDs in me that I never realized I had!

Updated On: 9/21/05 at 09:18 PM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:22pm

It would be easier and take less time to list the things I'm NOT OC about:

a. Ummm . . .
b. Uhhhh . . .

Oh, nevermind.

[Liam]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:23pm

i also HATE HATE HATE cotten balls and QTIPS and will not let them near me

ewww

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:25pm

Ah, BSoBW2 you caught me! I added the beginning of the sentence at the end, so I guess I missed a word. I usually would be obsessive enough to go back and edit my first post, but since you've copied it, I guess I can let it slide this time.

But it kills me.

I'm okay with not wearing a watch all the time, but I have to be able to find out what time it is. I usually check my cell phone, but on planes I go crazy if I forgot to wear a watch.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:31pm

Type_A_Tiff - we all have more OCD things we do that we don't realize. If I knew all the OCD things I did, I wouldn't be able to concentrate on anything else. My life is OCD...lol

Oh- and Liam brings up a good point with the cotton balls and Q-tips. My therapist at my old school *That already goes to show my crazyness* could not even go near cotton balls. He would quiver like someone scratching finger nails on a chalkboard.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:35pm

My dad can't touch cotton balls. He really freaks out when you tear them apart; he can't do it himself when he needs to, he makes someone else do it for him and leaves the room.

[Liam]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:37pm

your dad is a smart man it is GROSS!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:39pm

eponine, it may be easier to flush using a kleenex rather than your foot?

for me it's toilet paper......I am obsessive about having enough toilet paper......for what, only God knows, but should there ever be a shortage, I'll make a fortune!

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:42pm

Oh- here I am again! Talking about toilet paper. I have to have my toilet paper with the paper rolling out from the front (you guys know what I mean?)

If I am in someone else's house or any public bathroom and it's on the wrong way, I will change it. I feel soo embaressed when I do it but I guess I am just anal.

Updated On: 9/21/05 at 09:42 PM

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:43pm

Oh no, Elphaba, I'm also a foot-flusher. I don't want my face to even hower over a toilet bowl (which partially explains why I don't drink very often)...on the flip side, I also can't exhale over food or when I'm drinking from a cup, no matter what the proximity is between my nose and the food. The thought of some random micro-booger flakes drifting in makes me ill.

I'm a toilet paper freak as well. It's the first thing I check when I go into a bathroom stall. (Second thing is that no one left their 'yellow friend-lettes' on the toilet seat.)

I should stop reading this thread before I over-analyze all my quirks.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:44pm

Tiff is NOT obsessive nor compulsive about responding to PM's.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:45pm

...oops.

But I do have a compulsion of having everyone like me, so I'll send 20 your way to compensate!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:46pm

Rath - that just made me chuckle. No one can ever say that you sit idly by . . .

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:47pm

DG, if I've sent someone a PM, I obsessively check until I get a response!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:49pm

But wouldn't you rather the conversation just sort of end before it lulls into polite responses that neither party is interested in anymore? I like to leave on top!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:50pm

On top, eh?