What kind of things do OCD people obsess over?

Question

what is the weirdest you've come upon?

Answer 1

i have ocd and am currently on meds...my ocd is food...yes, food!!! im obsessed with it and that has also made me a terrible binge eater(9000 calories a day)

AND MY OTHER OCD IS everything being even...like i have to chew 22 times...not 23 or 21...it has 2 b an even amount of times...if i grab something with 1 hand i do it with the other...i have to have 2 ice cubes, not 1 or 3...if i hurt my right arm, i purposely hurt my left arm... MY OCD WITH THINGS BEING EVEN IS SOOO BAD THAT ONCE I BROKE A TOES ON MY LEFT FOOT AT A POOL, AND PURPOSELY BROKE MY RIGHT ONE CUZ I COULDT STAND IT BEING UNEVEN......i might be worse weith the food thing though...idk

Answer 2

my mum has OCD

she locked her self in her room she was afraid germs were going to get her she cleaned obbsesivly she also couldnt write anything as it took her at least 2 hours to write one sentence as all her letters HAD to be the same size

hope it helps

Answer 3

I have OCD (worse when I was young and stressed about my new school)... For me it was praying.  I would pray for about 4 hours/night and say only 4 prayers but if I screwed up, I had to start ALL OVER!  It literally drove me to depression :(

Answer 4

Hi there,

my wife used to suffer OCD alot, now just occasionally.

Her obsessions were: list making, anything and everything from a shopping list to a decorating list. She would write out a list, then do it again, and again. Sometimes this would go on for days and could be a little scary.

The other thing was pegs - you know coloured washing line pegs - she would make sure all the pegs of one colour were together on the washing line - course I mixed em up and drove her mad.

For my wife it was a way of releasing anxiety......

Answer 5

hands washing

Answer 6

you sound like you want to hear about the freak show that is OCD.......you think this is a joke? its not.

I had OCD at uni and I used to wash my hands about 50 times a day until they were red raw and beeding.....I couldnt touch certain things I thought were not clean, or I was convinced I would get ill. It didnt help that I lived with a right scummy person at the time who never washed his hands...I used to stay up arranging things until they were perfect, when I should have been in bed sleeping, and make myself late for lectures....but it just didnt feel right until I had done it, somehow things seemd a little bit better and manageable once I had done these things.....I am religious but I used to find myself praying about 35 times a day and having to get it perfect, so I would start again and again and again....when ppl at uni found out they ripped the p**s and thought I was such a freak show.....I dont care now though and I can see why, i must have been fu**king weird to live with!!

thankfully, that has stopped now as I am no longer under such stress but somedays I still worry too much about germs....made my hands a little dry and sore recently from washing, but got it under control now.

Also, when doing my dissertation I was 2 days late handing it in because I thought I had to get each sentence perfect before I could move on the next one.....luckily the uni asked me why they were late and I told them, got a doctors note and they took that into account and I still passed, despite being late.

Answer 7

i used to be ocd with carma. i would constantly talk to god inside my head telling him i was going to be good and every time i messed up on something i would fear how i would have to pay for it

it's funny though, because i'm athiest now and alot happier and freer!!

Answer 8

wow laura i had exactly the same problem :O

i kind of go through different phases of ocd...

when i was younger (about 7 or 8 i think) i would have these strange complusions to do certain things (like to lay things by my bed in a certain manner, or to do something like check behind the end of my bed 100 times...if i did it wrong i had to start over again). I used to think that if I didn;t do these things then something bad would happen.

It actually started to take over my life, i felt so alone and I didn't know what was wrong with me, until I told my mum.

Then it sort of went away, I took control of most of it.

Then about 2 years ago I got this weird obsession- it surfaced after I had visited a site on the internet that told me I was going to h**l. I had to say  a prayer after basically every thought I had, otherwise I thought I would be making a deal with the devil :|

weird, huh!

I would also have the strongest urge to go to confession after doing something I thought was a deadly sin (which turned out to be nothing of the sort at all, though I was convinced it was). I just went crazy, and I did the weirdest things and had the weirdest compulsions and ideas.

Then eventually, that faded away as well.

I sitll have weird ocd moments, but hardly much anymore and it doesn't take over my life :)

if you think you have it, i would tell someone it makes you feel much better!

I haven't been officially diagnosed with ocd, and hardly anyone knows about me having it, but I;m pretty convinced I have/had it.

Sorry about me waffling on....I haven't really talked about this to people much so it's all coming out i suppose :S

Oh yeah and  there was this thing where whenever I read something in a book that was a personal pronoun (like 'I' or 'you' or whatever) I would have to cover it up and then change it to 'she' or something that didn't involve me....that was pretty weird :S

Answer 9

i have OCD (at its worst a couple months ago) and the things i did regularly were needing to touch things, like shirts at the mall, with both hands to "make things even"

if i couldn't or i forgot, i'd feel totally stressed until i could go back. little things like that and other random ones too.

Answer 10

Everything or Anyting.   Everything is weird in it's own  way.  My neighbor cuts his grass all day long even in a drought when there is no grass to cut.  He cannnot stop he goes for hours.

Answer 11

A friend of mine had to exam her b*****s all the time because she thought that she had a lump, but had not been able to find it. Then she started to wash her hands all the time and check the stove and doors locks. Finally she started to feel a lump in her throat and went to see a doctor who referred her to mental health. A psychiatrist prescribed her some  pills and fortunately she recovered from this problem. It was like a combination of hypochondria and OCD.  This condition is related to a chemical imbalance in her brain.