Obsessive compulsive disorder

[Deleted]

Are you some kind of nut case or what? Here is your chance to tell the world exactly what you are worried about.

[Deleted]

Well, yes, I AM a nut. But on in a obsessive compulsive way. More just your everyday plain crazy...

..although DID tick quite a few of the above...

[bixaorellana]

This was the first inkling I had that I'm so mentally healthy!

[Deleted]

The one yes I answered made sense to me and actually,made me fell rather practical and responsible (the windows one..).
The last one,"other",(explain...) opens up too many windows!!!!

[bixaorellana]

I wouldn't think that any of the first group would indicate ocd, , they're just practical things to ask oneself. And a little ocd can be a good thing. If you automatically unplug the iron every time you're through using it, or wash your hands when you come home, you are simply tcb.

[Deleted]

But the OCD people ask themselves the questions 50 times or go back and check.

[gertie]

Well, I thought the go back and check was more of a parttimers turning into Alzheimer's thing. ;D

[spindrift]

Last thing at night my obsession concerns my gas cooker. Are all the gas taps turned to the 'off' position? One night I was horrified to find that one was slightly turned on (and not lit) . I don't allow myself to check them more than twice. I have to force myself to leave the kitchen and not look back.

I must admit I sometimes wonder whether I've unplugged the iron and my hair straighteners.... and I won't touch door handles in public places, especially public toilet ones.

[gertie]

In my defense, I am not the only person in my house. It is less so now, but when the kids were younger various things made it necessary for me to develop a list and check it whenever leaving the house. I don't worry about most of them any longer as one of my daughters is grown, married, and out of the house...and the other is almost out of high school. They are fairly well trained by now. Mostly... They do say insanity is catching...you catch it from your kids!

As an example, I have in the past habitually driven by the house to make sure the front door was shut on leaving. Once I carefully set the lock to lock on closing and left the door ajar for my daughter to join us in a trip to the shops. On return, the door was standing wide open. I glanced at my daughter and asked had she shut the door. Her face went and I realized hmmmm no. She said she had just pulled it to as it didn't seem to want to shut. The lock setting made the thing actually a good bit harder to close, so I guess there was some justification, but I did inform her it might be good to let me know she hadn't been able to shut it before driving off. Ours is a pretty quiet neighborhood, so nothing was bothered, but it might well have been otherwise.

Turning off curling irons used to be a big thing in my house. Then my husband set up the computer controlled outlet for them. They are left on all the time, but one turns the power on to them via the computer as they are plugged into x-10 modules the computer control. He has written a control program such that they turn off after 15 minutes and must be turned back on to continue. My iron has an auto turn off feature, as well. If it is left standing, it will shut itself off after a couple of minutes. Something in it evidently senses motion.

Spinny, I know exactly what you mean about the gas taps, I've had that happen to me some long time ago, although in my case it was actually lit and so I burned up a pan. I thought it was off, the flame was so very low as it was just almost off. On the positive, I wasn't going to get gassed in that manner. On the bad side, had I not been home to smell the pot burning up it seems to me a fire could easily have started. And I have occasionally just taken a pot off and left the burner burning or taken a casserole out of the oven and left the oven on. Usually it is because I have dirty hands, my stove dial knobs are a pain to get clean, or my hands are full and I am trying to get everything on the table fast due to some evening activity or appointment. My girls have occasionally left a burner on just barely as well. The result is I usually check the thing right before sitting down to diner, before leaving the kitchen after cleanup, and on the way up to bed. DH helped me quite a bit with this one by installing a light that turns on whenever any of the burners or the oven is on, so now I need only glance.

Shouldn't that about public bathrooms go under "My Mother always told me" ? My mother trained me...and I my children as well, not to touch anything in a public bathroom if one can help it. One carries tissues in the purse and uses one to touch knobs and also if there is no toilet paper, some are placed on the toilet. Why, I can't say, as one never actually sits on it, either. And heaven forbid you touch the flush knob, you'd probably just die right there of some horrid disease. One uses one's foot for that, or at the least a fresh tissue or some tp. A towel or tp is used for the sink taps. The one thing ok to touch is the soap dispenser, provided it is of the type the soap comes out the part you touch, as that keeps it clean. Otherwise, use a tissue. After drying hands, the towel is used to open the door to exit as goodness knows most people don't wash their hands at all.

[Deleted]

That's because my mother taught me not to pee on my fingers.

[gertie]

O.o