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Little OCD Rituals
This section of the Hall contains relatively minor and harmless rituals of an OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) nature.
Read about general OCD rituals. Below are the ten most recently added phobias in this category.
I have a phobia of fruit that is cut by other people or that I don't know where it came from. Even if my mom cuts up my fruit I refuse to eat it but if I cut it up I'm fine.
I also have to make sure I have a glass of water next to me before I go to bed, I always have to have my seatbelt on in a car, and I hate it when I rub anything dry together like cotton socks that come out of the dryer.
from Little OCD Rituals : General
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Every morning I have to put 9 strokes of deodorant under my left armpit and 10 under my right, with the last of the 9 strokes descending and the last of the 10 ascending.
from Little OCD Rituals : Counting
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I don't know if this classifies as a fear, but I have a habit of locking every door I go through behind me. I do it subconsciously; people that are behind me usually think I locked them out of the house on purpose.
from Little OCD Rituals : Doors
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I dont do this anymore (thank god) but I used to, whenever i got a cut or something, want it to be in the middle of wherever I was hurt. I would have to scratch myself or whatever until I felt my induced 'even' pain more than the other 'uneven' one. Like, if i got a cut on my forehead off to the side a little, I would have to scratch myself perfectly even to the rest of my face until it hurt more than the first one. I'm really glad i dont do this anymore, but i seem to have replaced it with other things... life isnt fair
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I have to eat my food in ascending order based on what I like of it the least and most.
If I eat a sandwich, I have to eat the crust off it first and comtinue eating around the edges until I get as close to a perfect circle as I can that is around an inch in diameter, and then I can pop the rest in my mouth.
If I eat a pack of fruit gummies (or M&M's, or anything like that), I have to dump them all out and seperate them by color, and then eat the flavors (or colors, if they don't have differing flavors) I like the least first.
If I'm eating cereal with different kinds of parts to it, like captain crunch or lucky charms, I have to eat the most bland tasting part first, and then whichever color I find the least appealing at the time.
This can be - and is- applied to anything I eat. I always have to eat the part of the meal I like best last, and if I somehow make a mistake and eat part of the food out of order, it upsets my stomach and makes my skin crawl.
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Whenever I am running water or walking I find myself counting to myself. Counting seconds that the water is running or counting each step I take. I automatically do this and when I catch myself, I force myself to stop.
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I hate public bathrooms. I have to hold my breath in mostly anyone I go in for fear of getting infected w/ the germs. I can't touch hardly anything in the bathroom. If the tissue is exposed, I have to roll it and throw away the exposed part. And I have to have 3 paper towels when leaving so that the germs from turning the faucet off or opening the door don't get on me.
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When I am riding as a passenger in a car, I have to clinch my teeth between every light post we pass. This better than it was, it used to be every 3rd car we'd pass I would do it. I have been doing this since I was about 12 years old. I am 30 now.
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I have to balance everything. When I get the volume I want on my MP3 player, I have to go one up, two down, two up, two down, one up. Doesn't take as long as it sounds. Also, if I scrape the sole of my shoe on the floor as I walk I have to the other one twice then the first one again. Same with scratching my ear, or the side of my head, face, arm, leg, whatever. Sometimes I still don't feel 'balanced' afterwards and have to scratch/touch both parts at the same time to 'reset' it all and make sure I'm balanced once and for all.
If I spin round to look at something, I have to spin back the way I came to 'even it out'.
Many offhand things I do depend on this x,y,y,x pattern, but I sometimes get the old double pattern problem where I have to contain that pattern within itself, i.e. xyyx yxxy yxxy xyyx.
from Little OCD Rituals : General
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