» Family codes and rituals

OCD
I think that this QOTW has finally unlocked the reason for my OCD... My family (and there's only Mam, Dad and Me) have so many bizarre rituals, I can only list a few without spending a few days on it. Selected highlights include:

1) Shouting "LYNX!" every time we see a Lynx delivery van (this was because Blue Peter used them for an appeal one year, so to my child-mind they were a "celebrity" company.).
2) Multicuddle: A group hug with its very own chant, which I can't possibly reveal without humiliating myself and my good parents due to smooshiness.
3) Saying "Good Morning Viet-mam" every time I see mother dearest before midday.
4) Camping Out, which involved all three of us sleeping in the living room on a Friday night when I was a kid, and renting a video to watch - possibly staying up till *gosh* half past ten.
5)Me waking up on Christmas morning at stupid o'clock and yelling "has he been yet?". Depending on earliness, the reply is always either "No! Go back to sleep!" or "He's been!". This still happens, despite the fact that tragically, I am now 28.

I can't go on, but I can think of at least eight more. How upsetting. I wonder if I should tell my therapist?
(Thu 20th Nov 2008, 21:12, More)