Thread: Is this OCD?
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Old Feb 24, 2014, 11:28 PM
canadian_orchid canadian_orchid is offline
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Sorry for the long post but here goes!!!

Here are some symptoms I've experienced for as long as I can remember.

If I touch one side of my body, I had to touch the other side to "make it even". Sometimes if I look at one end of a symmetrical object, I have to look at the other end of it to "make it even". Severity comes and goes. Sometimes it will drive me nuts until I "even things out". Other times I can hold it in and eventually forget about it.

Can't stop picking the dry/rough skin around my fingernails. Done variations of this since I was a child. Actually, any dry skin anywhere has to go. I have to pick things.

Second guessing myself/don't trust myself.
Lock the door...POSITIVE that I locked the door...did I lock the door? Go check the door again.
I have to read, read, and read my forum posts/emails/texts over multiple times before I can hit 'send'.
Things like that.

Extreme perfectionist. Things have to be JUST right. Nobody else does it right.

Grossed out by strange things, that squeaky feeling (like from soap). Also the slimy feeling from soap. I have to fold paper with my fingernail because the feeling of your finger running across paper is awful. These sensations make me want to gag.

Can't have sex without my hubby and I first having a shower and brushing teeth. Grossed out by sweat.

Wash my hands a lot. Sometimes my hands just 'feel' dirty.

Phobia: absolutely terrified of seeing anyone vomit or vomiting myself (not sure if this is relevant.)

Racking my brain and can't think of anything else right now.
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