yeah im the same way.. ill start to clean and then ill be cleaning the whole house even tho the house it clean... ill start to think of bad shit that could happen if i dont do something right off and yeah it drives me nuts sometimes.

I obsess about trying to find a job. But then i just tell myself "youre just gonna quit anyway so why bother?" I also obsess over getting rid of my current husband because he drives me crazy over stupid shit like snoring, farting in his sleep and his being 75 pounds overweight.I obsess daily that "the grass is always greener on the other side" and i could do much better.(but my husband does treat me very well, i just obsess with his flaws!

Yeah, I can get on some mean cleaning binges too. I try to stop. Once in a while I can get a handle on it which is better than never I guess.

Sounds like obsessive worrying ilovefavr.

lol ilovefavr.... iv left guys because i was obsessed over pissing off my guy i was with... and little things they would do would drive me nuts... and i tryed to stop thinking about what got to me.. but i just obsessed with making myself to think about it more and more..

i am a picker..not my nose lol skin. if there is a dry patch or hang nail or black head...even freckles if theyre slightly raised i pick till it bleeds...gross i know

I've had OCD since I was a kid, its taken different forms, when I was a kid it was counting and religous angonizing and now I obsess about death. So much so my husband almost lost his job because I was so convinced he was going to get killed on the way to work I wouldn't let him leave the house. I wouldn't let him out of my sight. Poor guy was so patient with me.

and i used to believe thaere was invisible string attached to my fingers that had to be cut by the fingers of the other hand whenever i touched something

I "List" When my ocd acts up I make lists of everything things to do how to do them planning weeks and months in advance. it is one of my signs that I'm going manic.

I'm definitely a checker, and a rechecker, and check again. It drives me insane. I have other OCD traits too, but I don't even know really what they are until someone says something. I like my groceries put in a certain order on the check out belt. I get real aggravated when the shopper in front of me has her strewn all over it and has left me no room to put mine. I stack all mine and take up as little room as possible. My daughter just cracks up. She'll be trying to help me put things on there, and I'll be rearranging it.

Hasn't crossed over into my housekeeping yet though. I wish it would.

#10 I never even associated my grocery habits with OCD, but you just described my h and I at the store...do you have to have everything just so in the buggy and bags too?? I do. i want cold with cold...box with box..can with can and called the store to complain when baggers got it wrong so many times..everyone knows let me bag it myself lol

yes i have ocd also.. all kinds of stupids things..

I have to take the battery cover off remote controls and click them open and shut, plus count the sides of rectangular or square shapes. Such fun!!

I have but I don't really think of it as a seperate disorder. I've always had it, it just got worse along with the Bipolar.

I obsess about 'doing things' when I start something I can spend hours at a time doing it and I can do the same thing everyday for days. For example if I start playing on my DS. I'll play the same game for a few days sometimes all morning or all evening.
I can obsess over making lists and organising things. For example I've recently been looking at all my Mum's cook books because I'm starting to cook meals. But now I'm on the laptop finding out how many calories are in each ingredients, adding them all up and working out how much the meal will be and dividing it by 3 to find out my portion.
As you can see my OCD effects my eating disorder too.
I also have a problem when making decisions...there has to be certainties, so rather than choosing I roll dice. That way, the dice decide and it's final. I don't have to think about it.

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i am a handwasher and a checker. i am also one that has to put the groceries on the belt a certain way and then put them away a certain way. i HAVE to vacuum everyday, and in exactly the same way, precision. i wash my dishes and arrange them in the drain pan a certain way. even when i do other peoples dishes. and have to vacuum and do the dishes at the same time if i am home. then i have to do them immediately. have to smoke the tallest cig in the pack keep my cig case arranged in the same way.....on and on and on, but mostly a handwasher.