Anyone with OCD or know someone with OCD, please share your experience

shdw01 · Feb 3, 2011

My wife admits she has OCD. She spends an entire minute after leaving her car checking the locks, and then windows, and locks again, and lights, and windows and locks.

When she opens the fridge, she pushes it close and then pushes it again 2 or 3 times to ensure it is closed

when she sets her alarm at night she stares at it for a minute, asks me to check it....stares another minute and then puts it down.

anyways, my question is how was your experiences and opinions on the subject. She refuses to take any medication for it even though she admits it is an issue.

Is there a viewpoint that made those medicated actually WANT to get medicated. And does the medication actually help?

harrington · Feb 3, 2011

I do....Been on meds for 6 years. Saved my life.

shdw01 · Feb 3, 2011

harrington said:
I do....Been on meds for 6 years. Saved my life.

What made u want meds? Did u know u were ocd or did u get diagnosed and then go on meds?

Guessing regardless of what u know, if u don't want meds u will not take any

harrington · Feb 3, 2011

I had depression issues and the medicine they have me on is also highly effective against OCD.

Fishhead · Feb 3, 2011

All my life, and look at it as a positive in many respects.

ANOTHERDAY · Feb 3, 2011

Fishhead said:
All my life, and look at it as a positive in many respects.

2nd that

louisvillekid · Feb 3, 2011

got a friend that is ocd about damn near everything. dude is constantly wound up and just all over the place when u try to talk to him cause he is constantly thinking about something else, like u can see the wheels turning in his head.

shdw01 · Feb 3, 2011

Fishhead said:
All my life, and look at it as a positive in many respects.

why, how and is there any reason that you decided to get medicated?

seanm0520 · Feb 3, 2011

Your wife's case doesn't sound too severe. Sounds like quirks more than anything to me.

To me, it's a problem when literally you can't go on with your day because you couldn't do the "routine." shdw, if your wife CAN'T push the fridge 2-3 extra times will she immediately become anxious and in a bad mood? If she has to walk away, is it the only thing that stays on her mind and she can't feel like she can do anything else unless she goes back and assures its closed?

That's when a doctor needs to be involved.

shdw01 · Feb 3, 2011

sean, i'm not sure what happens if she doesn't do it.....it will bother her but i'm not sure if THAT is what would put her in a bad mood...hahaha....one more thing i just thought of....any cap on any bottle is so fricking tight i waste too much energy opening it up later.

but she does have severe anxiety....she worries and worries about everything....often ruining her day (but i think this is a different issue than toe ocd)

KingofNicotine · Feb 3, 2011

Fishhead said:
All my life, and look at it as a positive in many respects.

Sorry but I don't think you have OCD. People who truly have OCD say that it interferes with their life. You think checking the locks for 10 minutes is productive?

Being obsessed with work or something similar is not really OCD.

seanm0520 · Feb 3, 2011

shdw01 said:
sean, i'm not sure what happens if she doesn't do it.....it will bother her but i'm not sure if THAT is what would put her in a bad mood...hahaha....one more thing i just thought of....any cap on any bottle is so fricking tight i waste too much energy opening it up later.

but she does have severe anxiety....she worries and worries about everything....often ruining her day (but i think this is a different issue than toe ocd)

Anxiety, I'm sure, is the leading cause for OCD.

10yearlurker · Feb 3, 2011

Played Baseball in college and we had a pitcher that had big time OCD issues. Sometimes he would go through his shit right out on the mound. He had to touch his chest 4 times, then his head 4 times, then his chest 4 times, then his head and so on, and so on. There were many times our catcher would have to call time out and go out there and "break" the cycle.

When the other teams picked up on this they were brutal. They would count out loud for him and tell him it was only 3 and it would fuck him all up. He was a closer so he was out there quite a bit. When he got back to the hotel he would take about 10 showers. I felt bad for him, but I won't lie there were times I about pissed my pants when he would start his flailing.

I'll give him this, he was recognized as the pitcher of the year for the conference his Sr. year. His fastball was only 90ish, but he had a FREAKY "slurve" with a quirky 3/4 delivery that seemed unhittable at times.

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