What type(s) of OCD do you deal with?

Hello. I was wondering what type of OCD symptoms are common on the forum. Like, is it contamination, orderliness, checking/rechecking, hoarding, hair-pulling, skin-picking, obsession only, etc.

For me, I suffer from checking/rechecking, ordering, repeating words silently, perfectionism, and doing an act a certain number of times. Occasionally, I have gotten episodes of where I only worry about clean objects and everything has to be germ-free. Luckily, it was only a month for me.

I just wanted to know about other people's perceptive. Thanks.

Mine is orderliness, hair-pulling ughgh I can't stand it.

I have to have certain parking spots. Have to. Otherwise I won't cope with where I'm going to. I have it all preplanned in my head. It used to affect me big time at work. I'd have one of 3 spaces where I knew my car must be and if it meant that I had to be at work at 7am to get my car into that space, then I would do that. Yikes

And hell breaks loose if I'm at a mall and the parking on the level in the area I want isn't available ... I've been known to u-turn and drive straight back home.

I wasn't sure if these types of questions you are suppose to quote or not, but..

I get similar things with the parking thing. I have to sit at a particular spot at a table or else I get really angry. I don't know why, but I do.

Orderliness, Skin Picking, Hair pulling, set to check in an X amount of repetitive actions on Runescape or otherwise I won't even be bothered to do it halfway and give up.

Been dealing with one type or another for 35+ years
In the past I mainly dealt with Harm/Violent OCD but as I've gotten older I deal with these:

Contamination (food poisoning and chemicals)
Existential (those big life questions)
Pure O (Rumination/Guilt)
Checking (reading things over & over, locks, that I put my car in Park)
Symmetry

hair pulling, skin picking, shaking/moving legs, walking around my room frantically to outrun my obsessive thoughts, checking/rechecking, perfectionism.

obsessing over 'wins' and 'losses', yes, every time I lose an argument with someone, I will remember that for life.

(look at bolded) I didn't think of this one, but ya, I do this because of many reasons. Well, I think because of many reasons anyways.

I can't stop shaking/moving my legs, I cannot stop at all, but I'm not sure if it's related to my anxiety, OCD (or both) or something else. If I'm not shaking/moving legs, I'm probably doing something with my hands.

Same about everything you wrote.

I find it funny that I wasn't diagnosed with OCD, even though I do pick my skin regularly.

Actually I'm not convinced that excoriation disorder should really be placed under OCD. I've never really been obsessive or compulsive about anything, but picking at my own sores calms my anxiety like nothing else can.

i dont really have any of the "compulsive" part. i dont think. but i have very obsessive thoughts

i Had checking,(locks,doors) Intrusive thoughts,fear, blasphemy
now i'm 99 % OCD free

Perfectionism i.e. needing things to be "just so".

I am a human laser level. If there's a framed something on a wall 1/8" off-kilter, I will see it.

I compulsively rub two of my fingers together, too.

But I don't do the checking, rechecking thing nor do I wash my hands over and over. Nothing like that. Basically just what I've written (and they're enough of a PITA anyway).

Ever since I was a kid, I had to do things a certain number of times. I know now that what I experienced when I was unable to follow through was anxiety.
Also I am unable to touch things that are not mine. Like door handles, hand railings, etc. I will never forget the first time I touched a railing and the incredible anxiety I felt. This does not stem from a fear of germs though.

Since meeting others with OCD, I realized how different OCD can present itself in each person. It took a long time for me to get the diagnosis as I did not fear germs and I thrive in clutter. I learned at a very young age that what I did was "not normal" so I learned to hide it well. I am very open about it now and I feel less ashamed.

One thing interesting to me is that even within a family, even though several have OCD, it manifests itself differently for each. In my family, my father was a perfectionist to the degree that all of us feel he had OCD. My two sisters both have OCD, but each of them in different ways (although we all are perfectionists).

In my own case, my principal symptoms are symmetry, numbers (fascination with patterns, punctuality, not taking more than seven drinks at a water fountain, "lucky" numbers), clothing arrangement (shoes, color of pants and shirts and socks, etc.), and rechecking to make sure I've locked doors, turned off burners, etc.).

I find that very interesting.
We should have the experts study your family so they can learn more about OCD.
The more we talk about what it really is like, the more everyone can learn.
The public sees people with OCD as being like Monk (old USA TV show). I am far from Monk-like.yet I have OCD too

I have heard of the TV show Monk. To me, I feel like the public sees OCD like a character from the TV show Glee, which just ended this year I think. One of the teachers named Emma Pillsbury in Glee had OCD in the fear of germs and that they have to wash their hands with hand sanitizer a certain number of times and stuff like that.

I like to look up to Howie Mandel, who has ADHD and OCD. His is the germ-type too, but he has still been able to live a successful life.

Monk had it bad. The bottom-line was he was obsessively afraid of everything. That actually made him a good cop.

The good part of the show is that they show him having OCD at a young age. I always remembering knowing what I did was not normal. My guess is I heard, "why do you have to do that?" too many times?

I deal with checking/rechecking (that I have my keys, phone, wallet, that the door is locked, etc.), perpetual obsessive fear that I will do something that will send me to jail inadvertently, fear that people are judging me, fear that something terrible will happen (someone will die, get hurt, or have their life ruined) because of me. I have to trace a line on my forehead periodically. I pull out my hair and pick scabs, but not too severely. I used to have pretty bad contamination fear, when I first started dealing with this.

Fortunately, most of us are far from being "Monk-like." The greatest value I saw from the show, besides showing me other ways I might have OCD, was that it sorta took it out of the closet (to mix metaphors) and showed that even "strange" people like we are can make real contributions to society.

Skin picking, certain numbers, right vs. left, chewing in a certain pattern with my teeth

I am starting to think I fit in with this thread.

I hope you find the help you need from here on PC.

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I also fear that something terrible will happen to others because of me. I think that the mental health workers are using me for a study. I fear that I am not passing the study and all the other people with mental health diagnosis will be intentionally harmed because of me. I fear the mental health workers are basing how they treat others by what they think is wrong with me.