Disclaimer: I have never been dx-ed with OCD, and at this time I doubt that I could have anything worse than a sub-clinical form of it (though PC's OCD quiz disagrees. Haha)

During late elementary school and junior high (time I referred to earlier), however, I think I may have had full blown OCD. I had a pretty big contamination problem. I washed my hands until they bled (at least 30x/day) ...my pediatrician's response? "You know that those things aren't so dirty. Just wash your hands less often." Yeah. She really knew how to take care of mental health issues.

I didn't mean to imply that simply strictly following rules is OCD-related. The obsessions behind the behavior is what made it pathological. I felt so much guilt over helping a kid with his homework that I had to confess. I certainly hadn't broken any real rules; giving someone a clue on the answer to question 7 is much different from actually cheating. However, I was so religiously concerned with not doing anything "bad" that I couldn't rest until I "confessed" that I had.

So, I'd say that concerns with rules can be related to OCD, but are not necessarily so. If you do go over to the OCD forum, it will be interesting to see how many others have rule obsessions. I'm sure the 3 of us aren't alone. I also feel like the bp forum is home. Admittedly I feel awkward starting new threads in other forums. And the people in the borderline forum don't like me enough to answer my questions.

And wow, Hankster! That's an impressive log. I just put food in my body, haha. But I'm not diabetic (yet..) If I feel like I've really overeaten or undereaten at the end of the day, then I'll guesstimate calories because I'm curious. But I could never keep such a detailed diary.