Thread: BP with OCD?
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Old Sep 25, 2016, 04:48 PM
NoIdeaWhatToDo NoIdeaWhatToDo is offline
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I don't have diagnosed OCD, but I definitely need things to feel orderly. Placement of objects when I'm tidying or in control of a space is pretty precise. I can't stand when there's a square edge of some sort of surface, and an object that's near it isn't also either squared up to it or sitting at a perfect 45 degree angle. Things that are off center are totally distracting, and I will often 'fix' them if possible. I will change toilet paper rolls in other people's bathrooms so they're hanging 'correctly'.

I don't find those things to be at the level of OCD, necessarily. Sometimes it'll be an urge I can't override to correct things in my environment, but not at a particular cost to something else. I don't get panic attacks about it. I don't think something bad will happen if I don't do it; I just feel calmer if I do. There are a lot of things in my world that need to be just so in order for me to feel just right. I don't know if that's related to the BP, but I am a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), and a lot of this seems to me to stem from those traits.
Thanks for this!
mtnannie