OCD habits

[saadibaba]

Yes I am talking about those needless and senseless thoughts and behaviors that take up much of our time and energy and amount to nothing.

I am not into checking locks or putting things in order etc. I'm obsess over missing things at work and therefore get the compulsion to check and re-check documents/papers over and over again. If its an important sentence, I read it over and over again, sometimes aloud, turn the page, go back and read it again and then do it all over again. Also, I notice that after I have acted on one obsession and followed the compulsion through like an idiot despite knowing that what I am doing is excessive, I move on to another obsession immediately like my brain wants to keep itself occupied with one worry after another. Its a tiring process. At times it is worse than others. At times its not there at all.

Anyone else here has similar issues. Any advise on how to deal with them.I guess one option would be to quit my job and become a roaming hippie dervish but unfortunately that is not possible in my circumstances.

 

[Nostalgic]

Mine is doing everything in sets of four, and an obsession with symmetry. I've mentioned this on another thread too, but once I hurt my left knee with a barbell: the bar was resting on safety pins, at knee height, and I walked into it, not having seen it. I proceeded to repeat the act three more times to get to four, and then did it four times to the right knee, for symmetry. The result was not one mildly injured knee, but two badly injured ones, because it wouldn't have been enough to just touch the right knee with it, it had to hurt just as much as the left one.

I've learnt over the years to control it, so if this were to happen today, I would've gently tapped the right knee with it, once.

 

[saadibaba]

I also cannot sleep without putting lip balm on my lips whatever the season and whether my lips need it or not. One time I ran out of lip balm and resorted to putting cooking oil on my lips.

 

[Nostalgic]

I also cannot sleep without putting lip balm on my lips whatever the season and whether my lips need it or not. One time I ran out of lip balm and resorted to putting cooking oil on my lips.

It's a good thing you don't smoke. The cooking oil and a cigarette lighter probably wouldn't have gone well together.

 

[Black Zero]

I am planning to start meditation to increase mindfulness.

 

[finalfantasy7]

It's not a ocd - but a habit - licking my moustache hair - corner of my mouth - I do this constantly

 

[Nostalgic]

It's not a ocd - but a habit - licking my moustache hair - corner of my mouth - I do this constantly

I'm sporting a handlebar these days, so I know the feeling. I don't lick it, but there's a reason why a mustache is called a flavor saver: everything you eat, drink or smoke lingers on for hours afterwards.

 

[kaayal]

It's not a ocd - but a habit - licking my moustache hair - corner of my mouth - I do this constantly

I'm sporting a handlebar these days, so I know the feeling. I don't lick it, but there's a reason why a mustache is called a flavor saver: everything you eat, drink or smoke lingers on for hours afterwards.

Eeeewwww...That's really bad.

 

[Nostalgic]

Eeeewwww...That's really bad.

It's the price one has to pay in preparation for Movember.

 

[kaayal]

It's the price one has to pay in preparation for Movember.

Maybe that's because i am a woman and i don't know what men does with their moustache. Still the mind image of licking that moustache hair and as a flavor saver is a bit too much to digest.....

 

[CricketCartoons]

Maybe that's because i am a woman and i don't know what men does with their moustache. Still the mind image of licking that moustache hair and as a flavor saver is a bit too much to digest.....

Women have moustaches too. They just get it threaded. My grandmom had moustache and beard too ( though sparse, but the hair strands were thick and proud and manly).

 

[kaayal]

Women have moustaches too. They just get it threaded. My grandmom had moustache and beard too ( though sparse, but the hair strands were thick and proud and manly).

) Reminds me of Nostalgic's post where some girl develops impressive facial hair after some homeopathic treatment lol.

 

[waqar goraya]

Throwing garbage in bin or out of car window I sometimes worry that i might have thrown something valuable alongside a tissue paper or orange rind. Before disposing off i calm myself that there is nothing valuable there.

One time I lost the car key during a Walima ceremony. Searched my pockets and all but could not find it, spent 3000 for a new key , but months later found the same key in one of the pockets of my waistcoat.

 

[Nostalgic]

One time I lost the car key during a Walima ceremony.

If it were on shaadi day instead of valima, I would've accused the bride's sisters. On that day they steal everything, it's almost like their inner kleptomaniac emerges out of its cocoon and goes on a stealing spree.

 

[finalfantasy7]

Eeeewwww...That's really bad.

Thing is my moustache ain't a sub continent one or even a amla style.

It's identical to ganzalo higuain, the two hairs I keep licking grow faster than the other hairs - so it's just 2 hair strand.

I have tasted it and doesn't taste of anything - I don't smoke, keep it clean constantly - eat very healthy

 

[kaayal]

Thing is my moustache ain't a sub continent one or even a amla style.

It's identical to ganzalo higuain, the two hairs I keep licking grow faster than the other hairs - so it's just 2 hair strand.

I have tasted it and doesn't taste of anything - I don't smoke, keep it clean constantly - eat very healthy

Good. Keep it clean from dust, sweat, food etc. Don't grow it downwards like a sunshade.

I had huge crush on higuain, totti back then....

 

[waqar goraya]

If it were on shaadi day instead of valima, I would've accused the bride's sisters. On that day they steal everything, it's almost like their inner kleptomaniac emerges out of its cocoon and goes on a stealing spree.

Doodh Pilae is a groom's test of nerves. He is surrounded by a dozen girls, every one of them keeping an eye on his wallet.
It is a good warning for groom to be careful of women in the future as well as about his finances.

 

[hadi123]

I always tend to check things an abnormal amount of times. Like if I have my keys, if I have locked the door etc.