[thelionkinglives]

I scored a 75 on OCD on my sanity test and a 21 on my OCD quiz so I figured I better start getting to know something about this...

I never would have even considered this....I'm not extremely neat....in fact I'm extremely disorganized

[Maven]

I'm a compulsive washer, but I can't pick up stuff I drop, so the house gets messy. I have so many things I want to list and organize, and I've got some that way, but I'm overwhelmed with the number of things I want to get organized, so I'm also very disorganized. In fact, I need lists to keep track of my lists, LOL!

Nevertheless, I'm obsessive-compulsive. Go figure!

[pegasus]

Would be good for you to write down a list of your OCD and how it effects you and what triggers it.

Also remember that some of the best Doctors have OCD!

Hugs

[thelionkinglives]

Originally Posted by Maven

I'm a compulsive washer, but I can't pick up stuff I drop, so the house gets messy. I have so many things I want to list and organize, and I've got some that way, but I'm overwhelmed with the number of things I want to get organized, so I'm also very disorganized. In fact, I need lists to keep track of my lists, LOL!

Nevertheless, I'm obsessive-compulsive. Go figure!

Maven, I can relate to the list thing. I must say though I must be the most eccentric OCD ever!! Growing up, I keep list of every players statistics in pro-baseball & football. I would track all 7 rounds of the NFL draft & be able to recall some obscure facts. i try to keep list now but very much need to keep lists to keep track of my lists. However, when it comes to things that people usually keep notes of, I don't even attempt to. For example. I'm a math major. Most of the other math majors I've had classes with keep endless notebooks of problems, formulas, theorems, etc.
Once I solve a problem I toss all that stuff

[thelionkinglives]

Originally Posted by pegasus

Would be good for you to write down a list of your OCD and how it effects you and what triggers it.

Also remember that some of the best Doctors have OCD!

Hugs

It's strange how a person's strengths can also be their weakness. For instance my stubborness has allowed me to go against the grain many times for the better, but it's that same stubborness that just won't let me let go of something that clearly isn't working.

O.k. I'm going to make my list right here, o.k.
I obsess typically about an activity or a cause that catches my fancy. seemingly sometime coming completely out of the blue.

When I am in a video game phase. I can play a game for 21 hours straight maticulously getting it set up a specific way, like franchise mode on a madden football game. Then realize a move I missed 3 season's ago & completely start over.

In past math classes we can get on a topic with a designed laid out assignment. However, I can get distracted from the designed assignment by obsessing about finding my own way to apply what we are learning to my life or to a topic of interest that isn't the assignment....so I put in the time with the topic, learn how to apply it but get soo caught up in my "special" project I won't get credit for that I put minimal effort into the actual assignment because it's taken too much time away from what I've consumed myself with.

I obsess about over analyzing nearly everything which can really be a mess when YOU become what your analyzing

[Maven]

I love organizing products...plastic containers, especially ones with little cubby sections for stuff like writing implements, paper clips, buttons, craft items, or whatever else you might want to put in them; tabs to organize papers into categories (and sub-categories); bags and carry-alls with pockets and secret places for your stuff; things to sort other things; colored sticky things to mark what goes where; labels; and all kinds of other things. I've never been in an organization supply store, but I'd probably NEVER want to leave!!!