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Mar 13, 2008, 02:13 PM
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Ok, so this is kind of funny to me.
I rarely write about my ocd as it's usually the least of my problems. Sure I obsess and sure I have little rituals that I must do, but they're usually pretty manageable these days. Well, I've noticed I've developed a new one. When I come here (to PC) and visit my usual sections, I must go into every active thread to make it appear as read. Not a big deal, right? Wrong! I hadn't been here in a few days and now I've spent all morning making sure nothing appears as bold (unread) in any of my rooms. Further complicating the matter is that while I'm on the site I have to go back to places I've already been if they get a new post or response to re-mark those as read. When I leave, nothing in my sections can be unread and today that took hours. What's funny is that I kept thinking, wow, I need to get work done. But I can't stop myself. Nothing can be bold! Nothing! lol. Not sure what to do in this case. I've never been obsessed with treatment before. Cyran0
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#2
Mar 13, 2008, 02:21 PM
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interesting.........not sure what to make of it
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Mar 13, 2008, 02:44 PM
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Eh, nothing really to make of it. To me it's just that familiar, all powerful need to do something. To make something a certain way so I don't think or wonder about it. It's the same feeling that requires me to turn the doorknob on the house a certain way to demonstrate that yup, I locked it. It's the same urge I get to go into my sent mail folder to be sure an email went out to the person I intended it to (even if it was sent by hitting reply).
I'm just goofy and neurotic. Cyran0
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Mar 13, 2008, 02:46 PM
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I count the clicks of my turn signal when im at a stoplight....each click is a 1000 dollars and when I turn the amount I collected I can purchase anything I want.....
ok thats weird too |
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#5
Mar 13, 2008, 02:48 PM
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lol. I like that one.
Cyran0
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Mar 13, 2008, 06:51 PM
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At least you can see the funny side!
 I used to do something sort of similar on another site - there were certain posters' names I always had to have purple (meaning I'd read their profiles), so I could find them...it didn't matter that most of them were already on my friends list, so they were easy to find anyway!  I don't do it any more...I think I might have stopped after coming back from a months' holiday and realising that it looked fine when everything was blue and I could still find people.Not sure if that's any help, but I hope you find something that works!  Speaking of rituals, I don't have ocd but I seem to have developed a ritual since coming to halls - every night just before I go to bed, I have to check that the bathroom light's off, my door's locked, my phone's off, my laptop's turned off, my alarm's set and my door's locked...always in that order, and I have to check the door twice or I won't be able to get to sleep.  I also have to put everything in my cupboards in the right place, but that's mainly so I can tell if things have gone missing.
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Mar 13, 2008, 10:17 PM
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You do know that in your "My Profile" you can "Mark All Read"? I don't like unread posts either but when they get too many and make me anxious or I'm just not in the mood, I mark everything read and "start over". Much easier to get away :-)
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#8
Mar 13, 2008, 10:29 PM
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oh my is that a Nick Rhodes avatar?
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Mar 14, 2008, 12:19 AM
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hey it cant be all that bad if its an obsession with PC right?
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Mar 14, 2008, 04:44 AM
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</font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font>
Brian37 said: oh my is that a Nick Rhodes avatar? </div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> It is indeed! 
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#11
Mar 14, 2008, 02:36 PM
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Thanks for the response Rio. I know all people have some rituals so I'm always a little fuzzy on what makes it ocd. I guess it doesn't matter much, so long as we mange it and it doesn't ruin our life.
Cyran0
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#12
Mar 15, 2008, 11:39 AM
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Cyrano,
That's a little amusing you've developed a PC OCD. I guess mine is that I read the topics in the same order. If something interupts and I have to click off, I don't feel 'right.' Yes I think we all have our own little neurotic rituals. If I had a camera following me during the day, it'd be embarrassing to see my rituals broadcast on tv. My worst was when I lived in a second-floor walk-up and had to go up the stairs a certain way--and the stairs were outside where people could see me. I'd have to start over if it wasn't right. Go Nick Rhodes! Scott
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Mar 15, 2008, 11:45 AM
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If I had a dollar for every girl in junior high school who was hung up on Nick Rhodes............wow
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