Bizarre habitsSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "Until I pointed it out, my other half use to hang out the washing making sure that both pegs were the same colour. Now she goes out of her way to make sure they never match." Tell us about bizarre rituals, habits and OCD-like behaviour.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 12:33)
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there's definitely a linebetween fussy and obsessive.
Some people simply can't be around things that have absolutely no effect on their lives.
You've got £7.49 in loose change in your pocket. Does it make any difference to you whether it is sorted in size of coin? Course not. But an OCD person simply can't operate until they are where they 'need' to be.
And there's a lot of food ones. Can't have meat touching potatoes, have to throw it all away if egg yolk bursts before you've finished your peas?
It makes huge differences to their lives. They waste vast amounts of time, at the expense of other opportunities (go back 3 times to check your door? How far would you have got etc). They injure themselves (try washing your hands 80 times a day, using a scrubbing brush).
It is some kind of mental illness, in it's extreme forms.
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Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 11:31,
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