redbaron
05-09-06, 03:38
I had never thought about OCD as such, always associated it with people who had to wash their hands or kept thinking about turning things off, the stereotypical stuff. I came to terms with the fact that I had some mental health issues to sort out some time ago but thought it was more down to classic depression, anxiety that kind of thing. It was only recently when I spoke to a friend of a friend who was doing an extensive post-grad study into OCD and he mentioned it might be worth getting checked out that it even entered my head. The doctor confirmed with things that I described that it was a realistic possibility.
I have had a few things which with the benefit of hindsight might seem a little obsessive, only they never seemed obsessive to me before, that was normality.
Organising certain key things: I have a lot of LPs, CDs tapes, DVDs and videos. They must be ordered properly, by which I mean seperated off into sections, put in chronological order and preferably height order if applicable and they must be all on the shelf sticking out the same amount, I cannot stand them being out of place. I don't like going to someone else's house where theirs are out of place, it's all I can do not to organise them for them.
I hate it when you have books of a theme that don't go together because of vastly varying heights.
And I hoard on themes too, I'll get into a particular thing and I'll want everything pertaining to it, everything, sometimes particular themes will pass but others keep going, there is no real enjoyment from the things they are just things and the quest to have everything associated is a never ending one. It makes me broke which makes me have serious debt problems which makes me depressed, and yet next pay check, there I am again.
I am now on med (Cipramil 20mg) which is supposed to be potentially good for depression or OCD, maybe this will help.
I wanted mainly to ask, in layman's terms if what I am experiencing is akin to what other people who have been diagnosed with OCD experience, if it is then I have some research to do I guess, if it isn't then perhaps I have even more. I know little about this condition that is clear and I do not wish to be hypochondriacal about things.
thanks for your time.
“There is a certain sort of man who ignores his own good qualities but is tormented by his bad ones, this is the man who writes about himself.”
-W. Somerset Maugham
I have had a few things which with the benefit of hindsight might seem a little obsessive, only they never seemed obsessive to me before, that was normality.
Organising certain key things: I have a lot of LPs, CDs tapes, DVDs and videos. They must be ordered properly, by which I mean seperated off into sections, put in chronological order and preferably height order if applicable and they must be all on the shelf sticking out the same amount, I cannot stand them being out of place. I don't like going to someone else's house where theirs are out of place, it's all I can do not to organise them for them.
I hate it when you have books of a theme that don't go together because of vastly varying heights.
And I hoard on themes too, I'll get into a particular thing and I'll want everything pertaining to it, everything, sometimes particular themes will pass but others keep going, there is no real enjoyment from the things they are just things and the quest to have everything associated is a never ending one. It makes me broke which makes me have serious debt problems which makes me depressed, and yet next pay check, there I am again.
I am now on med (Cipramil 20mg) which is supposed to be potentially good for depression or OCD, maybe this will help.
I wanted mainly to ask, in layman's terms if what I am experiencing is akin to what other people who have been diagnosed with OCD experience, if it is then I have some research to do I guess, if it isn't then perhaps I have even more. I know little about this condition that is clear and I do not wish to be hypochondriacal about things.
thanks for your time.
“There is a certain sort of man who ignores his own good qualities but is tormented by his bad ones, this is the man who writes about himself.”
-W. Somerset Maugham