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General little OCD rituals
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.
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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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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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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.
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I have a phobia that if I leave anything plugged into an electrical outlet, it will spontaneously spark a fire. I unplug all of my lamps, laptop, fan, hair dryer etc. every morning before leaving for work. After I unplug them I check all the outlets in my house (a few times) to make sure I didn't leave anything plugged in. And I have to take pictures of the empty outlets if I'm going on vacation to constantly remind myself that I did unplug everything. I'm convinced that my entire house will burst into flames if they remain plugged in while I'm not home.
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Ever since I was 10 I have to walk on my tip toes and not step on any cracks in my house. If I don't do this I know my house will break down around me killing my family and myself.
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This happened when I was little. If I turned around in one direction, I would have to turn in the other direction. The same happened any time I moved in a circle. Luckily I don't do this anymore!
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When I was 4 to 10, I thought all of my dad's kitchen cupboards, dishwasher machine, silverwares, dishes and everything are alive so I communicate with them with my mind. It turned into an obsession and I can't control it. They would kept talking to me and won't stop so I have to reply back to them. If they said something that made me mad or I bumped my knee on cupboards and hurt myself, I would kick and slap them to hurt them back. Maybe it started after I hurt myself from bumping into a cupboard and my grandma told it "BAD cupboard!!" (slap! slap! smack!) I am so grateful this OCD had stopped because it was SO annoying and made me go crazy!
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When I was about 8 years old I have an OCD with my voice. If I made a squeaking/screeching noise with my voice once, I must continue doing it breathing in and out until I tire out and lost my voice. Everyone in my family were so cruel and told me to shut up all the time but I really can't help it! It's like if I can't take control of it at all. I was so upset and cried because nobody would understand... Honestly, I can't control that thing and it was so embarassing especially during at school gym. I ran away and hide in the bathroom when it started and stayed until I'm done with it. I only have that obsession for few months and it stopped. I have many different kinds of OCD's when I grow up and the OCD symptoms competely stopped in my teen's.
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I don't have this OCD anymore but when I was a child I was so terrified of having any electronics and light being left on and nobody is using them or in the room. I HAVE to turn everything off one by one before leaving the room. If I walked past the room with any shining buttons light on VCR or clock, I have to unplug them all. I couldn't stand watching a movie on VCR while falling asleep until the movie stopped playing so the screen would turn into a static. This freaks me out the worst. I made myself stay awake so I can go and turn it off. I have this OCD for about 3 years at age 5 to 8. I have several different kinds of OCD later after 8 yr old and then it completely stopped when I was a teen.
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I have a really weird system for ordering things. My DVDs are in catergories, in order of preference, and ones sharing cast members have to be next to each other. Then books are done alphabetically, by author and year, then put into catergories based on genre. I also have to make lists of everything. I have a top ten everything. And I won't wear shoes unless they match the colour of my top. If they're different I start to freak out. Once it got to the point where I forced my friend to swap shoes with me because I was almost hyperventilating. My nail varnishes have to be lined up in the order of a colour spectrum. It's the same with pens and crayons. Also, if I look at the page number of a book, I have to re-read the page 6 times before I carry on.
I'm pretty weird;)
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IF I HEAR A BANG I HAVE TO CLAP 12 TIMES NO MORE NO LESS. I FEEL THAT MY EARS HAVE TO BE REBALANCED. I ALSO HAVE TO USE THE DOORS AN EQUAL AMOUNT OF TIMES EG IF I COME IN THE FRONT DOOR THEN I HAVE TO LEAVE BY USING THE BACK DOOR, IF I DONT DO THIS I FEEL SORRY FOR THE DOOR THAT DOES NOT GET USED SO I MAKE THEM FEEL BOTH WANTED. YES THESE ARE TRUE AND I KNOW THESE ARE VERY EMBARASSING BUT, THATS JUST ME !
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I always have to put crayons/colored pencils/etc in order by black, brown, red, magenta, pink, orange, yellow, light green, dark green, blue, purple/violet, light blue, gray, white.
I get really frustrated and start crying if otherwise.
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it doesn't matter what the item is but i have to sort things from biggest to smallest, then lightest to darkest. I can't eat odd shaped items or if there is an odd number of items i have to leave one. For example if i play poker i have to use the odd chips, then the black, red, blue then white chips
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Up until recently my travelcard and photo ID had to be lined up perfectly in the little plastic wallet they live in. I managed to fight this one but it has been replaced by a need to touch raw wood to ward off evil - seems you just can't win.
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When I put my hair up i a ponytail I HAVE to out it up four times in a row and when i do some thing like put on my shoes I always have to do it again eight times and when I'm listing to the radio or the t.v the volume alwasy has to be on an even number I have to do every thing an even amount of times like when I walk into a room I have to walk out and walk right back in an even amount of times and when I drink some thing i have to make sure to take four drinks of it before i put down the cup and when I hear of a new ilnes I always feel like I have it. And every time I try to explain all this to my mom she will not listen and I don't have anyone else to talk to about this so for now I'll just deal with it.
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When I ride my bike and I take one hand off the handlebar to wave to a friend or something, I must then, after replacing the hand, briefly take the other hand off the handlebar, and then very briefly take both hands off. If I do not do this I feel extremely unbalanced and anxious.
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If there is any kind of melody I can hear, I must tap the rhythm to it with my teeth.
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I am always tapping strange rhythms with my fingers. I have to memorize the pattern, do it with both of my hands, then do it backwards. Then I have to do the rhythm backwards and then frontwards, as a way to be doing the frontward-backward rhythm backwards. Confusing, yes, but I find myself doing it at all hours of the day.
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