Is OCD a white thing?

[michant2]

I'm ocd. I wash my hands at least 20 times a day, they can get dirty but I have to keep stopping to wash them. I have to dry them with paper towels if I don't have paper towels I have to have a folded towel that hasn't been used. If neither are available I keep 2 bottles of hand sanitizer in my purse and one in my truck.

I keep tons of paper towels at home and at least 3 rolls in my desk. My parents said it's been like that since I was young but they couldn't break my obsession.

You aren't OCD. You may not even have mysophobia or germaphobia. Just because you do those things doesn't make you OCD. You may just like to make sure your hands are clean and your areas are clean. Phobias are not a type of OCD. They are both anxiety disorders with specific diagnoses.

I'm, a firefighter and work with a Mexican dude that is OCD.Dude has to have every item in his toiletry bag(toothpaste,handkerchiefs,shampoo,conditioner,deodorant etc) placed in certain spots on his nightstand.He gets to work early just to place his stuff and make his bed.When you look at his stuff,everything is at right angles.Once,I borrowed some of his toothpaste and he wanted to make sure that HE put it back.

Now this cat, he might be OCD. I would need more information, but he has a ritual that doesn't seem to have any apparently rational explaination. But, it may just be a ritual. Does it affect his professional life, does it affect his relationships and social interactions, does he exhibit distress or intense anxiety if his ritual is disturbed, etc.

 

[michant2]

That hand washing - germaphobia thing is probably the most common type of OCD.

Had one of those dudes at work one time. He pissed me off one week, so the next Monday I waited till he left and took all the hand santizer and paper towels off his desk and watched him just freak out the next day.

Mysophobia is not a type of OCD. Hand washing is one of the may different compulsions exhibited by people with OCD, they do it because they have to. Hand washing for mysophobics is because they don't want their hands to be dirty or they are afraid of contamination.

 

[cocobeauty]

Now this is OCD. Coco, can you control it at all? What if you are somewhere and you aren't driving and there is nothing there that you can use? What do you do? My wife works with people with OCD and other types of behavioral issues, so this is really interesting to hear about

I ALWAYS make sure there is something to use. Before I leave I check and recheck my purse to make sure I have it. When we travel, I make sure to have a roll(s) of paper towels, and hand sanitizers that are stationed throughout the room. If you appear to be nasty to me, I will find a way not to shake your hand upon greeting. I immediately wash or use hand sanitizer even if I haven't touched you.

I have really bad allergies, so I'm always sneezing and always using more and more paper towels.

Like I said my parent tried to control it as a child and they couldn't. So now they just make sure I have plenty of paper towels when I go to visit or they have hand towels in my room for me just in case, but I ALWAYS have my own. Yeah it's that bad.

 

[cocobeauty]

You aren't OCD. You may not even have mysophobia or germaphobia. Just because you do those things doesn't make you OCD. You may just like to make sure your hands are clean and your areas are clean. Phobias are not a type of OCD. They are both anxiety disorders with specific diagnoses.


Now this cat, he might be OCD. I would need more information, but he has a ritual that doesn't seem to have any apparently rational explaination. But, it may just be a ritual. Does it affect his professional life, does it affect his relationships and social interactions, does he exhibit distress or intense anxiety if his ritual is disturbed, etc.

I have other lil quirks too but handwashing is by far my worse.

 

[Buttnaked]

most mental issues are not ethnically oriented...

 

[melonpecan]

i got ocd so no. i have to eat a certain way like all my food has to be separated, i have to brush my teeth a certain way, shower a certain way, i have many routines and ticks that i have learned to control over the years. weed helps alot

If I touch one side of my body I have to touch the other side.

My crayons and markers are all put in the box by the color wheel. They have to be.

I hate loose hair. I don't like touching it, or looking at it. I have to find some way to make it disappear.

I have a preoccupation with ridges, like the circuits on a motherboard. It makes my skin crawl but I have to touch it. It gets bad cause sometimes I want to touch things that I shouldn't touch like trash or something unsanitary if it makes that pattern.

I have to pat down all of the bags of sugar in the baking aisle. I have to touch each one on top and break up all the sugar.

I kept my Disney movies and games in order of acceptance or alphabet. I hated when someone came over and put the game back because certain games got covers, some didn't - and no Yoshi's Island can't go in front of Uniracers. I used to spend hours cleaning them making sure they all faced the same direction in my order. It has to look the same...




...so no OCD isn't limited to white people. Though the jury is still out cause most people think I'm white or Chinese.

 

[lossless499]

my ex had it. she'd pull out her hair all the time. she was pr.

i used to smack her hand when she did it (like a little kid). but 10 mins later the bitch was pulling again.

she got diagnosed by a doctor.

 

[MonkeyBizness]

1. Do not confuse OCD with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder. Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorder involves a pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control and usually onsets by early adulthood.

2. Superstitions and repetitive checking behaviors are common in everyday life. A diagnosis of OCD will only be considered if they are particularly time consuming (at least one hour) or result in clinically significant impairment or distress. In other words if you are stuck in your compulsion for at least an hour, or your compulsion impairs your ability to be productive, causes you distress, or interferes in your ability to have interactions with others, you probably aren't OCD and will probably not be diagnosed OCD.

what he said…

 

[God-Of-War-420]

If I touch one side of my body I have to touch the other side.

My crayons and markers are all put in the box by the color wheel. They have to be.

I hate loose hair. I don't like touching it, or looking at it. I have to find some way to make it disappear.

I have a preoccupation with ridges, like the circuits on a motherboard. It makes my skin crawl but I have to touch it. It gets bad cause sometimes I want to touch things that I shouldn't touch like trash or something unsanitary if it makes that pattern.

I have to pat down all of the bags of sugar in the baking aisle. I have to touch each one on top and break up all the sugar.

I kept my Disney movies and games in order of acceptance or alphabet. I hated when someone came over and put the game back because certain games got covers, some didn't - and no Yoshi's Island can't go in front of Uniracers. I used to spend hours cleaning them making sure they all faced the same direction in my order. It has to look the same...




...so no OCD isn't limited to white people. Though the jury is still out cause most people think I'm white or Chinese.

i shave my head to deal with the whole hair issue, my movies are sorted by type of media, love of the movie then color then hight, my old girl use to be just like me but her thing was pulling out eye lashes and brows and mine as well. she got so bad she pulled out all her eyelashes and brows(lookin crazy) then just out of the blue tore out not to be heard from for like 5 years which sent my symptoms into a life halting frenzy(though im straight now, thank u weed! ) on second thought i think that bitch was just crazy as shit

 

[melonpecan]

i shave my head to deal with the whole hair issue, my movies are sorted by type of media, love of the movie then color then hight, my old girl use to be just like me but her thing was pulling out eye lashes and brows and mine as well. she got so bad she pulled out all her eyelashes and brows(lookin crazy) then just out of the blue tore out not to be heard from for like 5 years which sent my symptoms into a life halting frenzy(though im straight now, thank u weed! ) on second thought i think that bitch was just crazy as shit

Wow...I don't need to cut off all my hair so much as every room should have a vacuum. She might be a little off though...

 

[dasmybikepunk]

Definitely not a "white thang" a lot of people suffer from this in
different degrees.

Anxiety disorders are not exlusive to race Black, white, Asian, Indian, seniors, kids, even toddlers can have OCD qualities.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, OCD, is an anxiety disorder and is characterized by recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and/or repetitive behaviors (compulsions). Repetitive behaviors such as handwashing, counting, checking, or cleaning are often performed with the hope of preventing obsessive thoughts or making them go away. Performing these so-called "rituals," however, provides only temporary relief, and not performing them markedly increases anxiety

Did white people just make up OCD to have someway to deal their with
their crazy ass kids...maybe

 

[michant2]

In order to be diagnosed OCD, you must have an Obsession. Many of you are describing Compulsions but aren't listing your Obsession. Your Obsessions must be recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress.

Those thoughts impulses, or images are not simple excessive worries about real-life problems (e.g. washing your hands because your worried about being dirty or disinfecting your house constantly because your worried that you're going to get sick from germs) You are attempting to ignore or suppress such thoughts, impulses, or images or you try to stop them with some other thought or action, and you have to recognize that those obsessional thoughts, impulses or images are a product of your own mind and not imposed from someone or somewhere else.

Once you have met the criteria for the Obsession, we can then look at your Compulsion. The Compulsion is a way to deal with the Obsession. To prevent or reduce the distress or prevent some terrible event or situation, you perform the Compulsion. You are driven to perform the Compulsion in response to the Obsession. However, the behaviors or mental acts are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent or are clearly excessive.

Unfortunately, OCD has become a part of our lexicon in a way that isn't the same as a diagnosis of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. It has become common to say that a person who washes their hands a lot or has to go home and check and make sure the gas is off, or make sure that the lights are off, or a person whose CDs have to ordered a particular way. But these behaviors rarely mean that the person is clinically OCD. I'm not saying that these behaviors can't, but there are a lot of hoops to jump through in order for them to warrant a diagnosis of OCD. For a person who is a hand washer and is only that to become OCD, is if that person can't even start their day without washing their hands for at least an hour. And anytime they start washing their hands they do so for an hour or more. And if you ask them why they do it, they aren't going to say they have to make sure their hands are clean, they will tell you the do it because they have to.

If you feel you have OCD then you need to see a professional. True OCD can become debilitating if not properly diagnosed.

 

[God-Of-War-420]

In order to be diagnosed OCD, you must have an Obsession. Many of you are describing Compulsions but aren't listing your Obsession. Your Obsessions must be recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress.

Those thoughts impulses, or images are not simple excessive worries about real-life problems (e.g. washing your hands because your worried about being dirty or disinfecting your house constantly because your worried that you're going to get sick from germs) You are attempting to ignore or suppress such thoughts, impulses, or images or you try to stop them with some other thought or action, and you have to recognize that those obsessional thoughts, impulses or images are a product of your own mind and not imposed from someone or somewhere else.

Once you have met the criteria for the Obsession, we can then look at your Compulsion. The Compulsion is a way to deal with the Obsession. To prevent or reduce the distress or prevent some terrible event or situation, you perform the Compulsion. You are driven to perform the Compulsion in response to the Obsession. However, the behaviors or mental acts are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent or are clearly excessive.

Unfortunately, OCD has become a part of our lexicon in a way that isn't the same as a diagnosis of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. It has become common to say that a person who washes their hands a lot or has to go home and check and make sure the gas is off, or make sure that the lights are off, or a person whose CDs have to ordered a particular way. But these behaviors rarely mean that the person is clinically OCD. I'm not saying that these behaviors can't, but there are a lot of hoops to jump through in order for them to warrant a diagnosis of OCD. For a person who is a hand washer and is only that to become OCD, is if that person can't even start their day without washing their hands for at least an hour. And anytime they start washing their hands they do so for an hour or more. And if you ask them why they do it, they aren't going to say they have to make sure their hands are clean, they will tell you the do it because they have to.

If you feel you have OCD then you need to see a professional. True OCD can become debilitating if not properly diagnosed.

my obsession is dying violently before i started self medicating it got to the point i wouldn't leave the house out of the fear of some final destination shit happening to me

 

[FIVEFIVE]

My old boss was seriously OCD'd. Lining shit up spraying shit with disinfectants all day cleaning fingerprints off glass and shit.


I quit.

 

[michant2]

my obsession is dying violently before i started self medicating it got to the point i wouldn't leave the house out of the fear of some final destination shit happening to me

Sounds like your compulsions may be things that you do in order to deal with the anxiety of dying violently.

Throughout my teen years, I was obsessed with a fear of dying in my sleep. So i started building models. I would spend hours upon hours building models. I would start working on them at bed time. I spent all my allowance on models. I would get upset when people wouldn't give me models for my birthday and christmas. I would go days without sleeping because I would spend my nights working on models.

When my parents said enough and stopped me from doing the models, I started reading books. Every book I got my hand on I would read until it was time to go to school or church. Sine I couldn't take books to church, I have read the bible several times along with Devotion and Hymn books. Church was boring and I would get sleepy, so i read them. I would read my textbooks. All of this to avoid going to sleep. I even read the entire encyclopedia Britannica collection. Finally, my parents took me to a doctor who believed I was an insomniac, and I was prescribed sleeping pills. Make a long story short, after a few years a psychologist talked to me about my fear of dying in my sleep and after a year or so I learned coping skills.

I wouldn't wish OCD on my worst enemy.

 

[freshnclean]

If someone sneezes or coughs near my food when Im eating I will throw it away.

Some people are fuckin disgusting, they will sneeze and cough without covering their face..., Im like damn, it says alot about a person..Fuckin sickening

 

[melonpecan]

In order to be diagnosed OCD, you must have an Obsession. Many of you are describing Compulsions but aren't listing your Obsession. Your Obsessions must be recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress.

Ho ho ho...I have an obsession...and the compulsion to go with it...


You sound like you might be in this profession of diagnosing...if you are might we pull up a couch?

 

[LordSinister]

We all have a slight case of it, everyone.

I know I do, I keep asking you to post them God damned books!!!!

 

[michant2]

Ho ho ho...I have an obsession...and the compulsion to go with it...


You sound like you might be in this profession of diagnosing...if you are might we pull up a couch?

I'm all ears.

 

[Lucky7s]

LMAO...this is by far the funniest shit I done read on BGOL in a blue moon...y'all mutha fuckas smokin' da wrong shit.

 

[ljinsane]

my wife has it and my youngest daughter who is about to be 3 already exhibits traces of it

 

[LordSinister]

my wife has it and my youngest daughter who is about to be 3 already exhibits traces of it

Are they white?

 

[Rembrandt]

My uncle is OCD and i think it could be slightly hereditary because i get upset when something i do regulalry is changed and my son does too but it's not as deep as my uncles.

 

[Blunt]

they are usually the ones with access to be diagnosed, no?

BINGO!!!!

(Same goes for most every medical malady and psychological disorder.)

 

[FJP]

I dont know if its OCD or compulsion but I know I check my bank accounts several times a day. Even if I know I havent spent shit, I check them.. Atleast 5-7 times per day.

 

[melonpecan]

I'm all ears.

And you in Atlanta too? Please shoot me a PM of your office. I've been thinking about therapy for a couple of years now.