the saga that is bree...lol

[sweetdreadlover]

i suffer from obsessive cumpulsive disorder. i do weird things such as i open a bag of mnms and the only color i can eat without freaking out is green. if i eat any other color i absolutely start to have a panic attack. i dont like odd numbers. everyhting has to be done in an even number including things like how many people are in the room with me. things hung on the wall cant be crooked or i go insane i swear....anyone else know anyone or they themselves who suffer from this same kind of disorder?

[AutumnsMoonChild]

I don't know if I have the disorder,but I am quite obsessive cumpulsive...If I had any potentially dangerous objects with me around anyone I love,I'd go totally paranoid that I was going to hurt them someday...I have to count things all the time,too and I have to always do usually unimportant things in order.

[stonerblond74]

I get ya. I'm the same way with the even numbers. I can only eat an even number of things. I have to do things in a certain order, even though I know I'm being ridiculous. I haven't lit a candle in my apartment in over 2 weeks, but I check several times a day to make sure they are all out. Like they might magically relight or something. I can't leave the pilot lights on in my oven, I have to disconnect the gas from the back, and reconnect every time I cook, for fear that the apartment will one day blow up. There are medications that are supposed to help, and I guess they do for some people, but none of them have helped me one bit.

[soulrebel51]

I'm rather obsessive-complusive too.. have been for as long as I can remember, now that I know what it is.

ahaha.. its pretty crazy, I've never told anyone this, but since I was atleast 3 or 4 I can never leave things alone, be it pens, notebooks, cd's, when i was younger it was mostly toy cars.. I know they dont, but I keep wondering like "what if they have feelings, they wouldnt want to be left alone"...
also whenever i do something or go somewhere that will require me to go back over what i just did/where i just went, i have to go back the exact same way i came, so i dont get [blank] knotted up.
i'm not yet sure what that blank is, dont think i want to find out.. but i just cant do it or i feel so bad afterwards and i have to go back or i'll never be able to sleep and i'll be living with a very very guilty conscience :eek: :(

[MattInVegas]

I've got it too lil Sis. Congrats again on the wedding.
Mine, I put to good use. I'm a bit "Monk"ish when it comes to my kitchen.
It's GOTTA be clean & orderly! When I bake, I clean as I go.
VERY relaxing to me.

[sea of grass]

I don't think I have a severe form of OCD, but I do have some OCD tendencies. I always have to check to make sure the oven is off before I leave, even if I haven't baked anything in days. I always have to check my alarm clock multiple times to make sure I set it for the right time, and other little weird things like that. I also do the candle checking thing even if I haven't lit a candle in days...

[honeyfugle]

i dont have OCD, but i do have some tendencies around this sort of thing...

i have to be doing something with my hands. all the time.
it's not because of smoking (i dont have a smoking habit) but i just have to have busy hands or i just can't concentrate on anything else.
i usually beat this by doodling and drawing (my school books have always been covered in my little drawings) but if i can't, i'm just twitching and.... not concentrating at all. i'm thinking "i have to do something i have to do something"....

oh and i lose things so often i check my area 3 or 4 times before leaving it. i still seem to lose things though so obv. it doesn't work... >_<