OCd

Liamalone · 15-09-2017 07:51AM #1

I watched a programme slash documentary on this last night. What a load of balls. People claiming to be housebound etc because they can't leave the house without touching things for or five times, can only brush their teeth after carrying out a certain 'ritual'. What a load of horse****.

I actually watched it with someone who is a mental health nurse and despite what she said, I still couldn't fathom wtf was wrong with them. I just kept thinking, wise the fook up.

Some folk will spout any aul crap for dla. Any wonder this world is up the shooter.

suicide_circus · 15-09-2017 07:52AM

If there was work in the bed, they'd sleep on the floor.

razorblunt · 15-09-2017 07:53AM

I see what you did with the thread tiTle.

Tom Mann Centuria · 15-09-2017 07:54AM

I disagree.

Liamalone · 15-09-2017 07:57AM

razorblunt wrote: »

I see what you did with the thread tiTle.

Unintentional but funny lol. Must have been an 'intrusive' thought. Apparently it's a 'thing'. Thoughts intrude and instead of catching yourself on, you tap things numerous times, spin around clockwise twice then anticlockwise four times, tap your noggin twice and then you are able to catch yourself on.

Liamalone · 15-09-2017 07:58AM

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

I disagree.

Which part?

McMurphy · 15-09-2017 07:58AM

Liamalone wrote: »

I actually watched it with someone who is a mental health nurse and despite what she said, I still couldn't fathom wtf was wrong with them. I just kept thinking, wise the fook up.
.

duchalla · 15-09-2017 08:01AM

Liamalone wrote: »

Which part?

With the "d" obviously....

kev1.3s · 15-09-2017 08:02AM

You can never underestimate the power of someone's brain, I'm not OCD myself but have came in contact with someone with a severe case.
They know that everything they do is completely irrational and try to tell themselves that but in the end they just can't help themselves. I find myself lucky that I'm able to go about my day to day duties without having to perform any "rituals" before leaving the house.

frankythefish · 15-09-2017 08:02AM

Had chronic ocd. Now live normal life although medicated. If I never had ocd I would have thought sufferers were talking rubbish. Your mind is your operations centre. And Ocd is very real.

somesoldiers · 15-09-2017 08:02AM

And people that say "I'm so OCD coz I like to put my books in alphabetical order"no, that just makes them easy to find

Marty Bird · 15-09-2017 08:04AM

Well OP you haven't a clue,OCD can take many forms not just the cleaning and touching narrow minded people associate it with. It can be really difficult to overcome if at all. The intrusive thoughts can be really bad once you are in the cycle it's very difficult to break.

Tom Mann Centuria · 15-09-2017 08:08AM

Liamalone wrote: »

Which part?

Well all of it really. Genuine OCD is crippling, same as a lot of things in mental health, you can't just wise up with it.

Jon Richardson the comedian did a good film about OCD. He used to tell a joke about it, but doesn't anymore, after he spent some time with those with the condition, it's quite funny and worth checking out if you can find it. There's also a really sad Canadian doc on YouTube about people tormented by OCD.
https://youtu.be/bKiu1IZcEF0

Sue Pa Key Pa · 15-09-2017 08:08AM

If you really had OCD, it would be CDO

Esel · 15-09-2017 08:12AM

Anyone remember COD?

Sue Pa Key Pa · 15-09-2017 08:16AM

Esel wrote: »

Anyone remember COD?

I read a PIECE about it once

UsedToWait · 15-09-2017 08:18AM

Sue Pa Key Pa wrote: »

I read a PIECE about it once

Word up.

Liamalone · 15-09-2017 08:18AM

Marty Bird wrote: »

Well OP you haven't a clue,OCD can take many forms not just the cleaning and touching narrow minded people associate it with. It can be really difficult to overcome if at all. The intrusive thoughts can be really bad once you are in the cycle it's very difficult to break.

I admit that I more or less haven't a clue. I thought it was all about having things in straight lines and that, the program opened my eyes to my 'misunderstanding' about it in that respect.

That said, I still thought it was a load of balls, maybe it was the folk in the program just, the things they were doing was weird and uncalled for. I was actually left wondering how they initially came up with their 'routines' as it was just silly.

One person has OCD for ten or fifteen years and had a 'routine' that I would put money on that they would be too small to do the 'routine' even five years ago. It stunk of bollocks.

Badly Drunk Boy · 15-09-2017 08:20AM

Liamalone wrote: »

I watched a programme slash documentary on this last night...

I thought this was going to be about how OCD caused the break-up of Guns N'Roses...

Liamalone · 15-09-2017 08:30AM

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Well all of it really. Genuine OCD is crippling, same as a lot of things in mental health, you can't just wise up with it.

Hence why I started the topic. I thought it was having things in order etc but it seems to be more than that according to the program that I viewed. The participants in said program were totally unbelievable imo, it sounded like a load of codswallop.

Mental health is indeed nothing to be taken lightly, maybe the program didn't 'shine' the correct light upon it.

Maybe this thread might do something different.

FWIW, the title was unintentional, on phone.

Liamalone · 15-09-2017 08:33AM

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I thought this was going to be about how OCD caused the break-up of Guns N'Roses...

*Guns N Roses

Outlaw Pete · 15-09-2017 08:45AM

Liamalone wrote: »

I admit that I more or less haven't a clue.

More.

15-09-2017 08:46AM

Of course their actions are weird and uncalled for, it'd hardly be a disorder otherwise would it

Tom Mann Centuria · 15-09-2017 08:47AM

Liamalone wrote: »

Hence why I started the topic. I thought it was having things in order etc but it seems to be more than that according to the program that I viewed. The participants in said program were totally unbelievable imo, it sounded like a load of codswallop.

Mental health is indeed nothing to be taken lightly, maybe the program didn't 'shine' the correct light upon it.

Maybe this thread might do something different.

FWIW, the title was unintentional, on phone.

No harm in being a bit sceptical, I dare say there are people who take the p*ss, same with whiplash injuries, back pain etc etc There will always be some tossers who try to fool the system, and there are varying degrees of OCD, some that people can exist comfortably alongside and others who's life it takes over.

Steve F · 15-09-2017 09:14AM

Liamalone wrote: »

Hence why I started the topic. I thought it was having things in order etc but it seems to be more than that according to the program that I viewed. The participants in said program were totally unbelievable imo, it sounded like a load of codswallop.

Mental health is indeed nothing to be taken lightly, maybe the program didn't 'shine' the correct light upon it.

Maybe this thread might do something different.

FWIW, the title was unintentional, on phone.

Edit it then

15-09-2017 10:01AM

OCD is a serious psychiatric illness. The rituals needed can cause the person to feel so trapped by their compulsion to carry them out. It can be anything from washing hands ten times to intrusive thoughts of harm coming to people they love. One of the causes is thought to be abuse in early childhood or a very stressful life event. Anxiety disorder and high rates of suicide are often present.

So no OP, it's not rubbish or whatever else you think.

Biggest lickspittle on boardz · 15-09-2017 10:05AM

Hey lay off OCD everyone, 'How Bizarre' was a classic one hit wonder.

El Weirdo · 15-09-2017 10:08AM

Liamalone wrote: »

I watched a programme slash documentary on this last night. What a load of balls. People claiming to be housebound etc because they can't leave the house without touching things for or five times, can only brush their teeth after carrying out a certain 'ritual'. What a load of horse****.

I actually watched it with someone who is a mental health nurse and despite what she said, I still couldn't fathom wtf was wrong with them. I just kept thinking, wise the fook up.

Some folk will spout any aul crap for dla. Any wonder this world is up the shooter.

Liamalone wrote: »

Unintentional but funny lol. Must have been an 'intrusive' thought. Apparently it's a 'thing'. Thoughts intrude and instead of catching yourself on, you tap things numerous times, spin around clockwise twice then anticlockwise four times, tap your noggin twice and then you are able to catch yourself on.

Liamalone wrote: »

I admit that I more or less haven't a clue. I thought it was all about having things in straight lines and that, the program opened my eyes to my 'misunderstanding' about it in that respect.

That said, I still thought it was a load of balls, maybe it was the folk in the program just, the things they were doing was weird and uncalled for. I was actually left wondering how they initially came up with their 'routines' as it was just silly.

One person has OCD for ten or fifteen years and had a 'routine' that I would put money on that they would be too small to do the 'routine' even five years ago. It stunk of bollocks.

Liamalone wrote: »

Hence why I started the topic. I thought it was having things in order etc but it seems to be more than that according to the program that I viewed. The participants in said program were totally unbelievable imo, it sounded like a load of codswallop.

Mental health is indeed nothing to be taken lightly, maybe the program didn't 'shine' the correct light upon it.

Maybe this thread might do something different.

FWIW, the title was unintentional, on phone.

Backtracking much?

Thought you'd get a rake of likes for your edgelordlike OP, yeah? How'd that go?

WoollyRedHat · 15-09-2017 10:20AM

I used to have OCD. In my case I grew out of it.

Would have to turn off devices x number times, before leaving the house. Had to pull door shut certain amount of times even though it was quite clearly closed over and would make me late for things as a result.

There was a little voice in my head that said if I didn't follow through with these repetitive actions, that people close to me would die. So one day I decided let them die, and I stopped!

uch · 15-09-2017 11:47AM

Only ritual I have when leaving the house is to make sure the Bladder and Bowels are empty, then I can leave happily

sbsquarepants · 15-09-2017 11:53AM

A lot of people tell you they have OCD when in reality they just like things done in a certain way - that is little more than a habit. It's much the same as people will tell you they are depressed when in fact they are just in a bad mood or having a shítty day.
Genuine OCD, much like genuine depression, is a very different beast altogether!

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