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Old Apr 12, 2012, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by landskaperdan View Post
Ok... I can relate to this. It's like when I was getting dressed the other morning and dropped two socks out of my dresser. I picked them up and stood there holding them. they were identical, not one wore more than the other or anything. I could not choose between them because I was convinced that one was "right" and one was "wrong"! I thought, depending on which one i chose, would choose the course of my day! My poor wife must have thought I was crazy, stressing about which one to choose. It did lead to anxiety, and there is still a part of me that is convinced that choosing the "other" one would have changed things. I can totally see doing this with colors too. I do this with a lot of things.
This really stood out to me. I used to put things on the table at a restaurant in exacty the right spots. Sometimes I do feel better if I choose one thing over another- everything will be better. I wondered if it was OCD and I did ask my pdoc about counting tiles in public bathroom and she asked if I could leave before I'd finished and I said yes - she dropped the subject of OCD.

I've been this way for as long as I can remember.
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