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Originally Posted by YMIHere
OCD is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. You ever watch the show "Monk?" He was OCD at it's extreme. I don't suffer with it, but I have a friend who does and she's the one who told me about the show because she found it amusing.
I remember my friend telling me about how when she was a child it would take her forever to go to bed because if she didn't get her foot on the step JUST RIGHT, she'd have to start all over again. She was in therapy and she told me it was an achievement to mix sheets and towels in the laundry? Or maybe it was towels and clothes? Anyway she was folding towels and she told me it was her homework to NOT refold them. Fold them and let them be good enough. These are the people who have to check that the door is locked THREE times. That sort of thing.
My Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder is this: If I can't do something perfectly, I won't do it at all. When I try to lose weight, if I'm not dieting and going to the gym then I'm eating pizza and McDonalds every day. It's one or the other extreme. A friend of mine said she doesn't know how I can call myself a perfectionist b/c she's seen the shambles that is my house. Housekeeping is a nightmare for me. I told her that often, if I know I'm not going to be able to do ALL of it, I won't do ANY of it. When I was in college, I made Dean's and Presidents lists b/c if I couldn't get an A, I dropped it. Didn't want it at all. There's a bit about it on here: Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder Symptoms | Psych Central
No diagnosis for this but I feel certain I qualify under the following:
Shows perfectionism that interferes with task completion (e.g., is unable to complete a project because his or her own overly strict standards are not met)
Is overconscientious, scrupulous, and inflexible about matters of morality, ethics, or values (not accounted for by cultural or religious identification)
Is unable to discard worn-out or worthless objects even when they have no sentimental value
Is reluctant to delegate tasks or to work with others unless they submit to exactly his or her way of doing things
Shows significant rigidity and stubbornness |
Thanks, YMIHere. I did a bit more reading about it and brought it up to my T yesterday. She evaluated/assessed (whatev's) me and concluded that I don't have it to the extent of it being a "disorder"; it's more a "style" that I have adopted of a way of doing things.
I know I'm stubborn as a mule, though (my entire family is - there's
no escaping that DNA) and I hate to delegate tasks. I am a perfectionist at tasks both at work and at home but I
DO complete them. I have been known on more than one or two occasions to think I've cornered the market on "righteous indignation" but, as I grow older and realize how much of a mess that I am, I've
way toned down the soap-boxing (glass houses and all that).
I'm not a hoarder nor am I miserly (another one of the diagnostic criteria). Miserliness would have come in handy as I am now neck-deep in debt.
I like to copy recipes off the internet in to a running Word document (keeps getting bigger as I add more recipes to it). Now, I
HATE to cook so WTF? but that's a topic for another time... Anyway, when I copy and paste them, the font differs from recipe to recipe and the formatting is all screwy and that gives me the absolute nervous fidgets so I have to make everything uniform. I've probably lost days of my life off of doing this stupid kind of shite. But, what can I tell you? It drives me bat$hit if I don't do it.