Weird O.C.D s, obsessions and phobias

[Sn1P3r M98]

I'm obsessive about walking on tile. I have to be extra careful to not step on any cracks.

As for phobias, I'm scared of people holding knives. I love collecting and using knives, but when people hold knives around me it freaks me out. Guns are fine, but not knives :/

Also, fucking spiders. That is all.

 

[onewheeled]

You know the Rainforest Cafe? The one that has the interior decorated so that it's full of trees, has a huge fishtank in the middle, and is filled to the brim with animatronic animals?

Yeah, I won't take a single step into that place.

I haven't been able to go in since I was a little kid. I don't know why, I don't have a problem with any other animatronics, but something about that restaurant just scares the living shit out of me to this day.

 

[eTe]

I must, when eating pancakes in a stack, have maple syrup/butter/whatever your flavour is, on each pancake in equal quantities.

Also cotton wool. DO not like feel of cotton wool.

 

[Sarah Frazier]

I have a phobia of loud noises, especially if they come without warning. I can't even be around balloons too long without feeling extremely tense until I have an actual panic attack until the balloons are in another room or at least far enough out of sight that I start to forget they're there. I get especially nervous with nearby thunder storms.

 

[ul suspect]

Me I have to count constantly all times of the day and i have to keep looking at corners of things. also i have to rub off dried or dead skin and eat it. also i have to rub off the natural body oils on my body or i feel dirty. also i have to blink in certain patterns. I also have a phrase in my head i could never get rid of for years and i still have it. i also have to crack my fingers and toes constantly. I cant think of any more of my ocd symptoms. But im not exaggerating those really are my OCD. For anxiety i am scared of heights, crowds, people i dont know, justin bieber and rebecca black. and cod and wow players. Also i cant stand words that arent spelled properly. im fine with bad grammar.

 

[eTe]

maziecat I have a lot of those too D: From

need to have all my files on my computer very neat and organized

Down that's me too D:

I remembered another one. I do like proper grammar. And if someone pisses me off, I take much glee in correcting their oft poorly constructed comments (most people who disagree with me are morons, except YOU (You being whoever is reading this)).

My phobia is that someone will see error in a correcting post that I made to them and be corrected myself. Hasn't happened yet but that's probably I check those special posts for like, half a hour to make doubley sure.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

Even after one shot, MUST REL0AD!!!1

My first O.C.D. I'm so proud.

 

[eTe]

Even after one shot, MUST REL0AD!!!1

My first O.C.D. I'm so proud.

Odd. My first FPS O.C.D must be 1 shot less than a full clip at all times.

 

[Rule Britannia]

I can't sleep when there are any LED lights on (for example a TV on standby) I've tackled this issue by covering the lights with sticky tac .

I find it difficult to sleep without a constand sound (for example: bathroom fan)

ALL my songs on my iPod have album artwork applied and all have 100% volume applied to them.

When I'm at school the edges of a table have to be in line with each other.

This is more so a sensible thing but I have everything on my computer in folders nothing is loose and not organized.

that's pretty much it. I'm generally a crazy person.

 

[Rule Britannia]

EDIT SORRY I MADE A DOUBLE POST (my internets been very odd today. )

 

[AngloDoom]

If I scuff the side of my leg a shoe while walking, I have to scuff the other leg or I feel off balance. This sort of 'balance' issue applies to a lot of things, like if I nibble my lip in thought and bite it a little too hard to the point it hurts, I sometimes do the other side to so I don't feel off balance.

I've also got claustrophobia - only, I don't feel threatened in small spaces in general but when my arms are pinned to my sides. Then I go from zero to absolute freakout in about 0.3 seconds.

 

[Drenaje1]

As it turns out, I'm disgusted/terrified of all bugs. I don't really know why, and spiders terrify me almost to the point of being unable to function. I deduced that little fact from a few days ago when I opened a cabinet in search of snacks, and there was a spider just chilling there on the inside of the cabinet, right next to my face. It took a few seconds for my brain's 'GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM IT! NNGGYYYEAAAAHH!' to register to my legs.


Also, I can never have any blinds open at night. It bugs the crap out of me, but it's not necessarily fear.

 

[chaosyoshimage]

I'm afraid of loneliness, which really sucks because I'm an introvert. Also, snakes, honestly anything that slithers around like that...

 

[Toriver]

Bit of a redudancy with the title...

I'm completely OCD about my books. I have to have them in order from largest to smallest and I don't let anyone borrow them, especially after my dad's wife borrowed my copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and it came back with water stains on the pages and the cover was all bent around the edges.
And I'm terrified of frogs and toads, I have no idea why. There was one sitting in front of the door to my apartment complex and it took every ounce of self-control I had to not scream and to step over it to get inside.

I'm not targeting you in particular, but I thought I'd nip this in the thread early if I could. That's not OCD, that's OCPD. Obessive Compulsive Personality Disorder is about having everything perfectly tidy or sorted a certain way.

Obessive Compulsive disorder is about having intrusive thoughts (the obession) and having to perform an act (the compulsion) to stop them, such as the simple thinking the door is unlocked and having to check it, or a bit more complex, like having an unwanted sexual thought and having to say a prayer to dispell them. Some can get quite bizzarre like switching on lights a certain way to stop a spouse from dying.

It's a bit confusing but with one letter, there's a huge difference between the two.

Yeah, I have a mild case of OCPD that my parents helped me keep in check since I was a little kid. Didn't even know I had it until they told me after college and told me how they helped me deal with it. OCD, the other kind, runs in my dad's side of the family, so my parents kept an eye out for it with me and found I had OCPD instead, albeit a very small manifestation of it.

As for fears/phobias, I am absolutely deathly afraid of doctors' needles in a BIG way, but only if I know they're meant for me. Though really it extends to anything invasive a doctor wants to do to me. I have a massive personal space bubble, so I get uncomfortable whenever someone touches me unexpectedly, even if it's a nice, pleasant touch, but that just makes unpleasant touch, such as getting jabbed with a needle, absolutely terrifying. I CANNOT do it. What's even worse is the way I react. Instead of passing out, which I hear is what happens with most people with needle-phobia, I go into full panic mode and instinctively fight it to the death or flee. And I can't control it. It just happens. I'm not afraid of doctors or dentists if I know they're just going to do regular check-up kind of stuff, but the moment a needle comes out, only one of us is leaving that exam room. And I wish I was kidding.

 

[nklshaz]

I've got a few, but nothing too major. I have to check repeatedly to make sure that the TV and my PS3 are turned off. I also need to check my alarm a few times to make sure that I have it set to the correct time. Sometimes on Saturdays I repeatedly check the calendar on my phone to make sure that it's not actually a weekday and I'm actually supposed to be at high school. Before I can actually quit a game, I have to save 2 or 3 times to make sure that I didn't lose anything. And I repeatedly check to make sure that there is both food and water in my dogs' bowls before I go to sleep. I guess I'm just generally obsessed with making sure that I didn't leave anything unfinished or undone. My only phobia is one day finding out that none of my friends actually like me, and are just pretending to for shits and giggles. (But if I ever start to think about this for more than about 90 seconds, I realize how stupid it is and then I move on to something else) None of these things interfere with my life too much though, so it's fine.

 

[Silversoul]

I can't stand the touch of paper on my skin, even if its on my hands, it feels uncomfortable. Rly sucks since i'm writing on paper all the god damn time in school. >_<

 

[Tonythion]

The alarm on my phone, my alarm clock, the volume of the phone and the volume of the TV all have to end in odd numbers. I also hang my clothes so they all face the same way (to the right).

I would hate to live with you. I have to have the volume on either an even number or a five. But if the number is four or six I MUST HAVE IT ON FIVE.

But I'm with you on the hangers. All my clothes face the same way and I have to have plastic hangers that match the color of my clothes.

OP! I HAVE MORE! When entering a new room I have to count how many windows or doors there are. Or count the tiles on the ceiling. I can't step on cracks or walk on sidewalks that have uneven sized blocks. Also I have a thing for folding. All my clothes have to be folded perfectly without wrinkles or uneven sides...that's why I have an unnatural fear of folding those damn stretchy bed sheets, I get itchy and angry and sometimes nauseous.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

i cant go into a room with sick in it, i collect anything that is connected to an out of the ordinary event (ie the centenary Irn Bru can (its the original can but a bit different), a ticket from Alton Towers) and i collect ring pulls and if i ever get chocolate buttons i need to have all the different animals. i dont know why.
i also cant clean if someone else is in the room, and when i do i have to re-alphabetise all of my CDs, DVDs and games.
also, i want to count to past the highest number someday year. s.

Assuming that you count at the speed of one number per second, you have been counting since the moment of your birth, and you will live to the first world average of approx 80 years old, then the highest number you will count to will be about 2522880000 (two billion five hundred and twenty two million eight hundred and eighty thousand). Is that as high as you're wanting to count?

no. gotta count faster. i can count to 37 in 10 seconds (slurring 22-25 then repeating them) so that will buy me some bonus time in the millions...

 

[RADlTZ]

Don't know if it counts, but Ive always been bugged by the fact that people in commercials NEVER BLINK! Its just creepy...

Oh I'm never going to be able to unnotice that now.

 

[Tdc2182]

I have the weirdest OCD thing.

Whenever I'm in an important conversation or meeting I always get the weirdest "It would be so fucked up if I started making out with this person right now", and I always get worried that I would end up not being able to contain myself and actually doing it.

Also, a little less of a weird one, If I tell myself I'll skip working out tonight, I'll always end up making myself do it anyway by just doing a few pushups or something. I guess it's one of the better OCDs to have.