yes im the same and i agree with you we seem to cope better in those sort of situations i know i do

I'm proud of myself for being able to handle stressful situations, however I still need some help with it. I'm making progress.

I don't know, it doesn't seem to matter how much I analyze what to do in every situation, I freeze when it actually happens.

Sometimes I'm good and sometimes I'm not. It just depends, I think.

I can remember being aware of things like exit routes on buses and planes. I have always had plans for emergencies. When we had a two story house, I had plans for escaping in case of fire.

i do that to!!

yes I am good at handling stressful situations. When my members of my family are going throough tough times it is me that they turn to. I help them deal with it. But lately it is all of them having tough times. My mom has been sick for the last year, my brother is having drinking issues and my kids are driving me crazy. So here lately I help them deal with it then I come home and lock myself in my bedroom and have a little pity party.

Well i suppose we are most prepared....see i often imagine the case in which if someone in the hosue suddenly comes done with the vommiting bug or the like....i would want to top myself or anything to avoid it.....but i think i would know exactly what to best do to handle the situation. but thats the same with alot of other things when i paranoi about them and what not...im calm if really distresing things happen...as i have already thought about it!

I totally agree and so would my mom. I do well in crisis. I would be awsome as an er doctor or nurse. My brother was in a horrible accident and had to have brain surgery. No one could bring them selves together to find out what happen or take care of the paper work find out what was going on or find out about the car or call the girlfriend at the time. I picked up the reins and did it all. With out an ounce of panic. I knew there was nothing I could do for my brother except hold the rest of the family together. In the end he did great and came home in a short time.

This is only one of the many crisis that I did this in. ANd I think its cause our brains work differently

yeh i think the ocd, is kind of a good personality to have to some extent! the main benefit i get from it is bein really consistant at the gym when i set my mind ot it and eating helthily! only thing is in my ast relationship i think it made me to para about stuff which i HATE such a burden on relationships