Do you have OCD?

[S&WIowegan]

We all seem to associate OCD with neat and orderly. What about people who are compulsive disorder freaks? My wife simply can not close a door or a drawer inside the house completely. She's OK with closing outer doors but usually doesn't lock them.

When she cooks the kitchen looks as if it has been struck by a tornado. Here's the really weird part.....if I try to help out by putting things away or wiping up messes it enrages her.

What do you call that?

 

[36general]

We all seem to associate OCD with neat and orderly. What about people who are compulsive disorder freaks? My wife simply can not close a door or a drawer inside the house completely. She's OK with closing outer doors but usually doesn't lock them.

When she cooks the kitchen looks as if it has been struck by a tornado. Here's the really weird part.....if I try to help out by putting things away or wiping up messes it enrages her.

What do you call that?

A woman... No sense in trying to understand them

 

[PALADIN85020]

This is silly. But it did prompt me to go check my liquor cabinet to be sure I have enough backup bottles of Jim Beam, sweet vermouth and bitters in case I run out. I just bought a couple of bottles of Maraschino cherries as backups, so I know I'm all right there...

I noticed that I only have 3 bottles of Bailey's Irish Cream left, so I'd better stock up next time I go to Sam's Club. I'd hate to not have any for my morning cup of Joe!

John

 

[PALADIN85020]

We all seem to associate OCD with neat and orderly. What about people who are compulsive disorder freaks? My wife simply can not close a door or a drawer inside the house completely. She's OK with closing outer doors but usually doesn't lock them.

When she cooks the kitchen looks as if it has been struck by a tornado. Here's the really weird part.....if I try to help out by putting things away or wiping up messes it enrages her.

What do you call that?

In my house, I'd call that normal.

John

 

[AnthemBassMan]

I have the perfect gift for you! A picture of the Leaning Tower of Pisa hung crookedly on your wall so the tower stands vertical!
;~)
Stonecove

A girl I work with sent me that pic just to mess with me. She is also the one who will look at me from the folder rack and switch the folders around that I arranged. She knows that I'll go back and put them back in my order.

L8R,
Matt

 

[XD40inTX]

Please allow me a small but important correction. OCD is not an "anxiety disorder." I am OCD (according to my psychiatrist daughter) but it doesn't bother me a bit. I close drawers, put lids on jars, rotate my socks and underwear so they all get the same amount of wear, and line up my comb, brush, and razor in the drawer neatly. I've carried the same things in the same pockets for the past sixty years. None of that bothers me in the least.

It drives my wife crazy. She's the one who never has a clue where her cell phone, car keys, or hairbrush are.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

Please allow me a small but important correction. OCD is not an "anxiety disorder." I am OCD (according to my psychiatrist daughter) but it doesn't bother me a bit. I close drawers, put lids on jars, rotate my socks and underwear so they all get the same amount of wear, and line up my comb, brush, and razor in the drawer neatly. I've carried the same things in the same pockets for the past sixty years. None of that bothers me in the least.

It drives my wife crazy. She's the one who never has a clue where her cell phone, car keys, or hairbrush are.

This can be risky. What if all your underwear wears out at the same time, and it's inconvenient or even impossible to replace it just then? Much safer to wear out, say, half a dozen sets at a time, and replace them on a staggered basis. Labelling the lots with a letter code may aid in keeping the batches straight, although simple signs of wear should be sufficient. Anyway, your choice, but, as the Buddhists say, "Forewarned is four-armed."

 

[Salty RI]

Could you come over to my house and clean my yard? I do manage to close the door when I leave. I couldn't even tell you which sock I put on first. I just try to see that they match.

If they don't match, you have another pair just like em.

 

[Salty RI]

I know what you mean - each morning I sit on the bed and look at my shoes and socks trying to decide - should I do sock/sock, shoe/shoe or sock/shoe, sock/shoe and then there's the right/left thing.

And then I have a long, decision laden day ahead

I wouldn't worry about it unless you start doing shoe/sock, then you might have a problem.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

If they don't match, you have another pair just like em.

Not if you're careful to distinguish between the right-footed and left-footed socks.

 

[Salty RI]

Not if you're careful to distinguish between the right-footed and left-footed socks.

Oh I hate that, when you get them on the wrong foot, you keep walking in circles.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

OCD ?-sounds like an East European secret police agency !
IMHO we go overboard on all these syndromes, "disorders", neuroses, whatever. Is practicing firearms safety OCD ? Checking a gun to ensure it's unloaded even though you KNOW it's unloaded because YOU unloaded it yourself only a little while ago ? And you haven't fired it in ages, or maybe NEVER? Walking around your car to look for body damage, check for leaks, check the tires ? Making sure all the lights and the TV are off ? Organizing your gun safe, or your tool box, your refrigerator ? Your dresser ? Setting the table in a certain fashion ? As something of an "Old Soldier", I check my gig line whether it's suit and tie or casual dress or even full casual. Check my shoes, see if they need a touch up or a full polishing. I bicycle to work, check my tires, make sure they're fully inflated, check the lights & generator to make sure they're working properly, etc.
OCD ? I use another term-I call them SOP !

 

[wildenout]

When it comes to my guns and knives, yes...I am COD (alphabetical order) haha

 

[BoltThrower13]

I do, absolutely. Not the "flip the light switch 42 times" OCD, but perfectionism. I was taking tape off a book and ripped the cover, and it caused me to freak out. I knew it was irrational and didn't matter (book was used anyway) but at that moment it drove me crazy.

 

[raver]

I count things. I like groups of three. Nine is best. It doesn't seem to affect much, other than I actually count the seconds between myself and the car in front of me, and I get 6 cookies at a go.

 

[old bear]

Putting on my shoes or socks, I must put on the left one first... otherwise, they just don't feel right.

MG]

NCTEXAN, Stop at once ya got it backwards. The RIGHT sock goes on first, then Left sock, followed by LEFT shoe, finally the right shoe goes on last.

 

[loutent]

A small section of my safe (of course I sold all of these a while back )

And you call yourselves OCD - hah!

 

[greenmachine]

I'm sure glad we finally got that straightened out, can we just move on now? Besides, it really doesn't matter at all, as long as both socks go on first, then the shoes. Both socks first, then the pants, then and only then the shoes. Jeez, why do you guys have to complicate everything so much?

 

[reddogge]

I'm not but do like the pictures on the wall to be level and the rugs to line up with the floor boards.

But my friend we visited in FL for two nights in March has it really bad. Some examples of just two nights and days:

While we waited outside the gargage he just sat in the car touching all the knobs several times before moving the car to let us in.

He stood in front of a mirror for 20 minutes doing nothing while we were late for a function.

He made us sit in a sweltering car with the doors open while he meticulously wiped down 4 beach chairs and coolers before stowing in the back and turning on the car. We had to beg to have the A/C turned on.

After sitting outside the garage having before dinner drinks he put the table and chairs back in the garage with all chairs aligned perfectly in a row equally spaced.

His wife says he spends all day in the yard doing yard work and forgets to come in for lunch and dinner. He has a small yard and DOESN'T cut the grass so what can he be doing?

When going to dinner he shuts the car off, sits and turns off and touches every knob and control in the car several times and then deploys the club. On getting out he runs his fingers under each window to make sure they are closed.

He rotates his socks and underwear in the drawers (I guess I do some of that too).

So what do you guys think?

 

[NCTexan]

So what do you guys think?

I think "Separated at Birth" or "Two Brothers from Different Mothers".