Nraaaagh! Must... do.... it!

[Psychotic]

Are there any little things that you simply must do? Sort of like an OCD tendency?

Sometimes I have to check and double check if my front door or car doors are locked, especially if I am going out for the day. I'd love to know how my brain works on this. "Well, I know I locked it 2 seconds ago, but what if it somehow became unlocked in that time? Better lock it again just to be sure!"

I am also really bad with cracking my knuckles. I can do each finger in two different ways and then I have to wait a little while for them to "reset". Once I get the idea in my head to do so, I smurfing have to do each and every one. It feels so awful not to. Normally I just go ahead and do so, but it's a bit more difficult if I am driving or playing a game!

So that's my craziness documented (as if every post I make at this website isn't somehow a manifesto of lunacy) but what about yours?

[Quindiana Jones]

I have exactly the same thing with my fingers, and thanks Paul because I just had to right then after reading your post.

[Psychotic]

Just sharin' the love.

I've had to do it twice since making this thread, once when I posted it and once when I saw your reply, so we're even! Second time my fingers hadn't really "reset" though and it hurt.

[Quindiana Jones]

Oh God, it happened again!

[Shorty]

Stuff with symmetry, and it really drives me insane. If I brush by something and it hits my right leg, I have to go by it again so my left leg will hit it as well. Same thing for if I have an itch or something on one side of my body, like my arm, I will suddenly get or need to scratch an itch on the opposite side in the same place. If I'm sliding a drawer in and I don't feel it went evenly into the space on both sides, I'll reopen it and close it again until I feel like it does. Sometimes I do things with light switches being turned off and on a certain number of times, but my room now has a fading switch so that isn't a problem so much anymore!

Typing this out makes me feel cray.

[Loony BoB]

When reading newspapers, I have to tear off the bumpy bits that are left on the sides from the printer they're printed from. I hate having bumps on my fingertips when I read the paper, it annoys me to no end. Beyond that, I'm not really sure... although many people seem to think I'm a lot more OCD than I actually am.

Also, in before CDO.

[Faris]

I have exactly the same thing with my fingers, and thanks Paul because I just had to right then after reading your post.

Yeah-huh same here

I have to check everything two or three times. The stove, the taps, the lights, if the doors are locked... I think that's just me going a bit stir crazy though.

[Sephex]

I have to murder people who cut me off in traffic.

[Jinx]

Not really. But when it gets in my mind that something needs to be done (dishes, laundry, etc) I can't wait. It has to be done NOW. Or else I will keep visualizing it over and over in my head.

[Slothy]

Stuff with symmetry, and it really drives me insane. If I brush by something and it hits my right leg, I have to go by it again so my left leg will hit it as well. Same thing for if I have an itch or something on one side of my body, like my arm, I will suddenly get or need to scratch an itch on the opposite side in the same place. If I'm sliding a drawer in and I don't feel it went evenly into the space on both sides, I'll reopen it and close it again until I feel like it does. Sometimes I do things with light switches being turned off and on a certain number of times, but my room now has a fading switch so that isn't a problem so much anymore!

Typing this out makes me feel cray.

If you are then we both are because we seem to have extremely similar OCD tendencies.

[Freya]

I have to pop my back. I just twist and it goes crack crack crack. I have to do it at least a few times a day. IT's not so much OCD as more of I get uncomfortable. Most people have ot have someone like stand on them or hug them or something but mine just POP when i twist.

[Shorty]

I wish I could pop my back on my own. It would save me so much discomfort.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

When I stretch and pull my arms behind my back and can usually get a couple of my ribs to crack along my sternum.

If I'm holding someone's hand, my fingers have to interlace with theirs a certain way. If it doesn't, if feels really weird, and drives me crazy.

Ever since I left the parking brake down on my car, and it rolled down a hill, I double/triple/quadruple check to make sure my car's parking brake is up, and that I left it in gear. It can be several hours after I parked, and I can see my car from my window........I still go check.

[Rantz]

Another slave to knuckle cracking here. Trying to do it less though as not everybody likes having to listen to that stuff.

I fidget with my hair too much. I keep imagining it to be dishevelled or sticking out in weird ways when it's usually not.

[Skyblade]

Stuff with symmetry, and it really drives me insane. If I brush by something and it hits my right leg, I have to go by it again so my left leg will hit it as well. Same thing for if I have an itch or something on one side of my body, like my arm, I will suddenly get or need to scratch an itch on the opposite side in the same place. If I'm sliding a drawer in and I don't feel it went evenly into the space on both sides, I'll reopen it and close it again until I feel like it does. Sometimes I do things with light switches being turned off and on a certain number of times, but my room now has a fading switch so that isn't a problem so much anymore!

Typing this out makes me feel cray.

If you are then we both are because we seem to have extremely similar OCD tendencies.

Yep, same here, the symmetry thing gets to me really easily.

On games, if I'm going through a codex or something similar, I always have to press the L and R buttons an equal amount of times (usually resulting in me reading the whole thing, then flipping back to the beginning instead of just closing it). Just because symmetry.