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by hereigoagain @ 17/07/2006 – 05:10:45 pm

I have an obsessive compulsive disorder and it drives me mad. It started when I was about 9 and I became obssessed with germs being on everything. I wouldnt touch a door handle or pick up a telephone. I washed all of the skin off my hands until they were raw and bleeding.

I thought I had grown out of it, but sometimes I realise it's still there.

I can't go to bed without shutting all the drawers in the bedroom. I can't have anything hanging out of the door of the wardrobe. The curtains have to be fully closed with no gaps at all. I sometimes have to read paragraphs of books over and over again. I wash the taps in the bathroom when I've used them. I've sent my Dad to my house numerous times convinced I've left the iron or my straighteners on. When I cook chicken (not a whole one I couldnt cope with that!!) all of the surface in the kitchen have to be bleached and washed, just in case someone gets salmonella. My ornaments have to be in exactly the same place and at the right angle.

Could you live with me??

And to the outside world I seem quite normal

p.s but you'll never get food poisoning at mine
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- (Visitor)
- 17/07/2006 @ 05:16:41 pm
Normal is over-rated, Sarah! And as for the drawer/wardrobe closing thing, that is purely sensible, as we all know the boogeyman comes out if it's left open an inch. I know his game! Anyway, you're talking to the woman who has to have everything in her room/house symmetrical...balanced and neat! My gran drives me daft as she just shoves photos on her unit in no order...I have to spend at least an hour every time I visit sorting them out in some sort of symmetry! Without it there would be chaos...and I only like chaos at the weekend...;o)
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- hereigoagain
- 17/07/2006 @ 05:19:25 pm
Phew glad I'm not the only one.

You're right I never wanted to be like everyone else anyway.

I keep telling my husband about the boogeyman, but he just doesn't beleive me. One night I won't be there to shut all the drawers and he will be sorry
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  - 17/07/2006 @ 05:22:29 pm
  Oh yes...the boogeyman feeds off non-believers! ;o) I was bad enough until I actually watched the film Boogeyman and now I am convinced the shadows in the cupboard are real. Damn it...it'll be the tooth fairy/sock goblins all over again...I know they're there but can I blooming well prove it? Evasive little sods!
  - - hereigoagain
    - 17/07/2006 @ 05:24:42 pm
    Yeah those bloody sock goblins are little sods.
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      - 17/07/2006 @ 05:29:54 pm
      Vicious little gits. Last seen hoofing it downstairs with my precious fluffy Christmas chill socks...but one day they shall pay, of yes. I'll slam their little bobble hats in a drawers and that'll be that! ;o) God, the heat must have really fried my brain today!!
      - hereigoagain
        
        17/07/2006 @ 05:31:20 pm
        
        Now come on, don't try blaming it on the heat
        
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- TheCDThing
- 17/07/2006 @ 05:53:08 pm
i think most of us have things we have to have done, wardrobes door and drawers are mine too, and for the same reason lol

i wont take birthday or any event cards down till at least two days after the event, im not sure why ?

i wont look in the mirror if the room is dark,
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- hereigoagain
- 17/07/2006 @ 05:54:24 pm
Ooh I forgot the mirror one
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- (Visitor)
- 17/07/2006 @ 06:57:20 pm
we all appear normal on the outside

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- - TheCDThing
  - 18/07/2006 @ 12:10:05 am
  dont we just hunny x
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- - hereigoagain
  - 18/07/2006 @ 08:37:14 am
  I suppose that's true. I think everyone puts on a face to the outside world.
  My mum suffers with severe depression, but most of the time people can't beleive it, because she always puts on a happy joking face!
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- 11/08/2006 @ 12:33:39 am
I had OCD when i was 6-10, for 4 years, every nite i had to give 100 kisses to my teddy, and shut everything and make sure no waterdripping, no gas leaking, all drawers, fridge everything is shut. (My mum was robbed when i was with her, so it just made me very scared of everything).

One day as I was giving kisses to my teddy, in half asleep (of course if I messed it up i had to start it again), i realized how embarrassing what im doing and since then I've never done anything OCD.

I just decided not to.
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- Rinaani (Visitor)
- 29/10/2008 @ 11:57:43 am
It is really sad that alot of people don't know about OCD and how badly it can affect suffers and their close ones. The first time I heard about OCD was when David Beckham came out of the open about his OCD. At that time, I felt that a few friends of mind where suffering from OCD, so I got interested in the subject.

And after researching further into OCD, I realised that David Beckham's case was not really that serious, as well as my friends'. I read testimonials on people suffering from OCD on a charity called OCD Action's website and how serious it sets back their lives. It is only after that I can really relate to what OCD sufferers go are going through.

The sad thing is that people suffering from OCD cannot come out in the open about it and suffer in silence as they perceive their condition to be tabboo. It is about time to make OCD well-known among the general public so OCD affected people don't have to suffer in silence.

I read on OCD Action's website that they are holding a OCD Conference (http://www.ocdconference.org.uk/) on 22 November 2008 which will help create OCD awareness among the public and sufferers and, thereby, increasing understanding on the condition.

I really feel that it's fair enough for OCD to be well-know just like all other conditions. And events like the OCD Conference are a step closer to making people understand how serious OCD is.
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