During a random convo I was having with a friend's mom today, she was telling me about his little brother and his issue with brain trauma and consequent compulsive behavior. I'm sitting here listening to her and alarm bells are going off left and right.

Mom...Dad...just how far DID y'all drop me on my head when I was a child?

10/19/2009 9:38:25 PM

or how often. maybe they used the floor as your trampoline

10/19/2009 9:39:10 PM

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10/19/2009 9:40:45 PM

Hmmm...lots of things starting to make sense here.

10/19/2009 9:42:00 PM

your compulsive shitting is caused by your diet, not head trauma.

10/19/2009 10:22:37 PM

Haha

10/19/2009 10:24:14 PM

i suffer from IMPULSIVE behavior

10/19/2009 10:26:11 PM

Damn...twoozles...so I had to read up on that a bit. Impulsive behavior stemming from overboard emotional reaction seems much more like hitting the nail on the head for me.

10/19/2009 10:42:56 PM

do you suffer from short term memory loss?

10/19/2009 11:23:21 PM

yes.
I count constantly.

ONE Two THREE Four FIVE
SIX Seven Eight Nine
TEN Eleven Twelve
THIRTEEN Fourteen
FIFTEEN

and now the reverse.
FIFTEEN Fourteen THIRTEEN Twelve ELEVEN
TEN Nine EIGHT Seven
SIX Five FOUR
THREE Two
ONE

And that's just the start of it.

10/19/2009 11:27:49 PM

volume must be a multiple of three

alarm is set for 2 snoozes

i have to step on each foot equal times when walking in a hallway

i can't order something at a restaurant if someone else has already ordered it

10/19/2009 11:40:13 PM

My attache case in Resident Evil 4 was always immaculate. Every time I picked up something it had to go in the correct area: Ammo, health, grenades.

10/19/2009 11:44:18 PM

Once i start drinking i can't stop.

10/20/2009 1:00:28 AM

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"alarm is set for 2 snoozes"

That's a smart idea. I've never thought to do that before.



Biting/Peeling my lip. ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

Popping my thumbs and wrists

Hitting refresh when I change tabs.

10/20/2009 1:06:56 AM

When I set an alarm, it has to *feel* like the right time, based on the minutes. Normally this fluctuates, but it can never be a multiple of five. Ever. That's just wrong.

10/20/2009 1:23:54 AM

i check my alarm a minimum of 3 times before i go to bed (the number of times is dependent on how many feel right)

i also set 3 different alarms (one on a different device) around five minutes apart from each other

whenever i go out to eat, i have an unshakable desire to clean up the table before we leave

when pumping gas, the total price HAS to end on a multiple of 5. i've even given strangers free gas to make this happen

if i download music, i have to download the entire album. i either get the actual CD or download a FLAC+CUE that was perfectly ripped - no MP3 whatsoever.

my music has to remain immaculately tagged at all times

if at all possible, things must be symmetrical... or at least perpendicular.

...wow, i'm a fucking freak.

i guess all of those aren't really compulsions, per se, but idiosyncrasies.

10/20/2009 1:52:50 AM

^ thats not obsessive, evan. that's just, like you say, idiosyncratic behavior. it's certainly nothing to worry about.

true Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a chemical imbalance and is not (normally) due to brain trauma.

some antidepressants have been shown in clinical trials to reduce symptoms of OCD.

ZXAPPEAL, you should consult with your physician or a psychiatrist. you have issues.





[Edited on October 20, 2009 at 2:54 AM. Reason : ]

10/20/2009 2:51:41 AM

this thread wasn't about OCD just compulsive behavior, which is

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"an irresistible persistent impulse to perform an act (as excessive hand washing); also : the act itself"

10/20/2009 3:00:13 AM

"an irresistable compulsive impulse to perform an act"

sounds like symptoms of OCD to me....

10/20/2009 3:07:02 AM

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10/20/2009 3:12:19 AM

that's the definition for compulsion.

i bite my lip constantly because i persistently have the irresistible impulse to do so. I'm not OCD, I, like most people, just have compulsions to deal with. The reason why it sounds like a symptom is the same reason that

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"a quantity that has magnitude and direction and that is commonly represented by a directed line segment whose length represents the magnitude and whose orientation in space represents the direction; broadly : an element of a vector space b : a course or compass direction especially of an airplane"

doesn't. because vector isn't in OCD

10/20/2009 3:13:44 AM

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"volume must be a multiple of three"

FIVE, SON. FIVE.

I feel weird getting out of bed if the last number on the clock isn't a 0 or 5.

And the most OCD thing I do is while driving, I pay waaaaaay too much attention to the dashes on the road, or perhaps driveways on the sides, clicking my teeth as they reach me.
OH GOD I'M A FREAK.

10/20/2009 9:49:54 AM

there's a certain amount of time i have to rock in my rocking chair before going to bed, regardless of how tired i am. i'm not really sure what that amount is, i just know when i'm done.

10/20/2009 9:54:46 AM

i would like to say no...

but then i think about cleaning

i have to do it in the exact same order, in the exact same manner every single time...

if i don't...or if someone else tries to help me...i can shake the feeling that it's all wrong...and it makes me extremely uncomfortable...sometimes to the point that i can't sleep


when i worked at the bar i would sometimes clean the entire building with the aid of someone else...then go back and reclean the entire building again...my way...after they had left

10/20/2009 9:58:23 AM

Go to google and type in "ASD". It's a beautiful thing

10/20/2009 1:12:19 PM

Yes, I suffer from compulsive behavior. A lot.

10/20/2009 1:16:38 PM

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"Go to google and type in "ASD". It's a beautiful thing "

Anchorage School District
Atrial Septal Defect
Advanced System Designs
Advanced Systems Development

would have been easier had you just typed out what it stands for. you don't get to autism til like 9th down the list.

10/20/2009 1:24:22 PM

my bad yo

10/20/2009 1:25:46 PM

I too have this disorder.

10/20/2009 1:33:32 PM

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"When I set an alarm, it has to *feel* like the right time, based on the minutes. Normally this fluctuates, but it can never be a multiple of five. Ever. That's just wrong"

YES. my alarm setting changes daily and it ranges from 5:47 to 6:12, and its just a feeling, Ive been known to set the alarm and then later set it one minute forward or backward because it felt right.

[Edited on October 20, 2009 at 1:53 PM. Reason : rweerew]

10/20/2009 1:52:35 PM