Thread: Am I OCD?
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Old Jun 30, 2009, 12:49 AM
clj2 clj2 is offline
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I am a 17 year old male, have anxiety/panic attacks and depression. I need to go to a psychiatrist soon I think. Over the past few years, I have developed these just weird things. I have become obsessed with several things...one in particular, a message board that I don't even want to participate in, but I have no rest until I have and I hate doing it and want to stop, but can't. I check things periodically online daily that I don't want to, but can't stand or be comfortable until I do. I feel obligated. Most of the things I do I don't want to but I just can't help it, I don't feel right if I don't. If I'm out in public, I almost freak if I can't check certain things at times (this is rare). The chair in my room has to be at a certain angle or I freak. I cant stand odd numbers but like certain ones (for example I am obsessed with the 92.5, 97.5, and 102.5 frequencies on my radio and keep thinking about it over and over in my head and how it looks). My DVD's and video tapes have to be organized, labeled, and put in a certain fashion. I can have a bunch of papers on my desk, which is OK, but they have to be straight and not all crooked. My sheets on my bed can't be longer on one side than the other or I can't go to sleep. I will listen to a song for 2 hours straight and not stop. I'll get watching a TV show and no matter how badly I want to quit watching it I keep doing it, out of habit. I can't stand routine changes or I go crazy. I have to shower, shave, and wash my hair before I will go anywhere.
Are these classic signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder??? I have also started going crazy and wash my hands tons of times a day. I have to stop in the grocery store even to do it and my hands are starting to get raw.

thank you
Thanks for this!
ADHD1956