Based upon your responses to this screening measure, you are most likely suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Hobbes Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
Bogus test. I got a 14. And my answers were very normal
Yeah yeah yeah, no comments from the peanut gallery
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I scored a 2.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I got 2.
But then, I suffer from a lack of compulsive or obsessive anything.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
I think the impressive thing, the one y'all are missing, is that Steve asked the question at 5:35 and I answered it, with link, at 5:35. Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
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Posted by advice for pirates (Member # 4781) on :
I'm going to retake that test just to be sure.
Posted by dread pirate romany (Member # 6869) on :
I scored 20.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
This is like a nightmarish analogy:
NFL quarterbacks: Autism :: Hatrackers:OCD
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Bah. Y'all are under acheivers. OCD is the least of my problems and I got a 33.
Alucard, I think you're probably right.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
22? 22. Well, my mom always did say I have OCD tendencies...
[ January 28, 2005, 06:08 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
You know, this at the bottom kind of bothered me:
quote:Have you considered professional online counseling? Credentialled mental health professionals are standing by, right now, to help you learn more about this issue and how to help yourself change it. Try it today and see for yourself at the online counseling site, HelpHorizons. It's completely confidential, convenient, secure, and involves no snooping insurance companies.
Sure, let's plant the idea of "snooping insurance companies" in the minds of people who are worried enough about their mental health to take a quiz here...
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I got a 1.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I also got a 29 (moderate anxiety) on the "anxiety disorder" quiz. I knew I'd been experiencing some social anxiety, but I didn't know it was that assessable...
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
quote:Credentialled mental health professionals are standing by, right now, to help you learn more about this issue and how to help yourself change it. at the online counseling site, .
The fact that they misspelled Credentialed didn't bother you? At least you actually got the name of the site. It came up like that (points up) on my screen, complete with extra periods, commas and missing web addresses.
[ January 28, 2005, 06:18 PM: Message edited by: Kayla ]
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
I got a 60 on the anxiety one. Go figure.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I got a 40!! A 40!!!! I didn't think I was that bad.....oh well I guess OCD can't be that bad..... Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
12
Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
I got a 12 too, and i gotta say, considering how many things i answered "mild" or "no" on the test, i think this is more an indicator of whether you're a worrywort and/or a woman.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I have to say, I was kind of "duh" on the question about whether you worry that people are going to be hurt because you did something wrong. Isn't that what it means to be the mother of young children?
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
I scored a 20. I must point out that many of these questions were vague enough that I felt compelled to answer "yes" to even though I did not consider the topic of the question to be a medical condition I suffered from.
Also, many of the questions reminded me of the ADD quiz from the advertisement for Strattera, in which, yes at some time once or twice in my life I did feel this way, Yes...
Yet, on others, I could emphatically answer No:
For example:
(spoiler) . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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quote: Have you worried about acting on an unwanted and senseless urge or impulse, such as physically harming a loved one, pushing a stranger in front of a bus, steering your car into oncoming traffic; inappropriate sexual contact; or poisoning dinner guests?
[ January 28, 2005, 06:49 PM: Message edited by: Alucard... ]
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
10. Bah. I don't have OCD (though I felt compelled to take the quiz anyway =)
Hmm.. on the other hand I felt compelled to wash my hands three times and once more with alcohol this morning after cleaning up cat poo...
Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :
I got 18. And some of those I answered yes are the most telling, to me. My inner demons . . . Need to check up on that.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Got a 7.
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
21. And disturbingly, the OCD tendencies have largely abated since I started taking antidepressants. The thing is, this really doesn't interfere with my life, so I don't think I qualify as actually having OCD (anymore...), even though this test says I do.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
12. Which they claim means I barely score high enough to be labeled OCD.
Pfft. They're setting the bar way too low -- hmm, maybe they're selling something? Posted by ReikoDemosthenes (Member # 6218) on :
I got a 22...apparently the meds they've got me on just make me happier about being OCD rather than stopping it
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
quote: I think the impressive thing, the one y'all are missing, is that Steve asked the question at 5:35 and I answered it, with link, at 5:35.
Congrats, you scored a 99
I got a 2. This makes sense. If you could only see my computer desk right now I think I suffer from the absolute opposite of OCD...I call it apathy.
[ January 28, 2005, 07:59 PM: Message edited by: Boris ]
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I call it bliss.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
I call it nuclear mind.
And if anyone recognizes that qoute, you are as sick as I...
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Scientology?
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
I scored a 2 on the OCD test, but I got 103 on the ADD test.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I would gladly trade some of my overly-laid back tendencies for a little of the compulsive stuff. We could balance each other out. Anyone?
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I would get ready of it if I could. It isn't so bad I can't do anything....but I have some problems....
Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :
6 ___
It's funny because I'm a wreck, it's just not motivated by anything on that list.
[ January 28, 2005, 09:40 PM: Message edited by: Irami Osei-Frimpong ]
Posted by larisse (Member # 2221) on :
My sleep pattern seems to fit the Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder that's mentioned on the site. However, I don't believe my sleep pattern affects my social or occupational situations.
I have crazy sleep patterns in which I have a hard time falling asleep. I tend to keep myself awake with different thoughts and counting or reciting of silly snippets of words. Once I am asleep, though, I sleep pretty well. Too well, actually. I have very lucid dreams most nights so I wake up feeling more tired than when I first went to sleep. This has been going on as long as I can remember. Yet, at the same time. I can be woken up pretty easily if someone calls my name or the phone rings. Once I am awake, I rarely fall back asleep. There are times where I do seem to fall into a normal sleep pattern, but it only lasts a few weeks.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
OCD: 14 - not surprising. I knew it wasn't a problem, but I was an anal retentive accountant, so it's there at least a little.
Now, I no longer have a real outlet for my analness. Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
So if one does suffer from OCD, is there anything that can be done? Does therapy help? Are there medications that help?
Just curious actually.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Yes, both medication and therapy an help.
Posted by CalvinMaker (Member # 2032) on :
I was diagnosed with OCD back when I was 13 (I was also diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder at the time)
How do you know if you have OCD? Well, let me describe some of my symptoms, and some of the symptoms other people I know who have OCD have had.
I would need to buy. Buy buy buy. But there was an angle to it. I need the WHOLE collection of action figures. I needed every different drum piece to enhance my set. etc. Without having every piece in a set of something, I would feel incomplete. It just wasn't enough if I was missing a piece.
If I tapped my right leg, I would need to tap the left to make myself feel complete. If I tapped my right leg twice, or stomped my right foot twice, I would need to do the same to the left. Otherwise I would feel incomplete.
While being driven in the car, I needed to imagine a thin blue laserlike light touching down to the ground in between each tall standing structure, whether it be a street lamp, a fence, some cars, whatever would catch my eye. Otherwise I would feel very incomplete.
I'm a very messy person. But when I would clean my room after it got disgustingly messy, I would spend a few hours on it until everything was completely spick and span and tidy. And I couldn't stop in the middle, or else I would feel very incomplete.
People I've spoken to who have the disorder have shared some of my symptoms. Someone else had the same leg tapping problem I had. I've heard of others having the cleaning problem. And there's also people who constantly need to wash their hands, etc. (Have you ever seen "As Good As It Gets", or the new film, "The Aviator"?)
Over the years, I got to the point where I had control of my OCD, and was able to stop taking medication for it. Not everyone is so lucky (I'm still on meds for being Bipolar, and probably will be for life.) Granted, I still have some OCD left in me, but it's mostly unnoticeable, and I can control the amount that's left.
There are doctors and meds out there that can help.
I can't stress this enough.
So many people have psychological disorders and refuse to see doctors about it, or take medication for it, for various reasons.
If help exists, and it does, you should grab hold of it. It makes life so much better.
:-)
Hope this helps. Feel free to ask me any questions you may have.
Posted by Lisha-princess (Member # 6966) on :
I got a 17. Which did not surprise me.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Nice post, noah. Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Yeah, thanks for that Noah. It's amazing to me what people are carrying around with them, the struggles that we all have that no one really knows about. The more I learn about you folks, the more I am impressed with the mettle that you're all made of.
Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :
There's also no age limit on OCD. People think that they don't have to worry about their kids when they are young because most mental heath issues appear during adolescence, but I basically suffered from some kind of depression between the ages of six and eleven. I heard voices I could not control telling me one day that I was great and the next that I was disgusting, I was up and down all the time. I had an overwhelming fear of mortality. I suffered from OCD, mostly the numbers kind, my numbers were even - my perfect number was 4 - and I counted everything, (despite the fact that I hated maths), I had to do everything an even number of times. I also had obsessions with colours and tapping and checking but to a lesser extent. It got to the point where it controlled almost every moment of my life. I hated it and yet I loved it because it was the only thing I knew that made sense. It was such a comfort. CalvinMaker, ‘incomplete’ is the perfect word. I felt like there was a black pit of horribleness behind everything just waiting for me to stop counting and fall in.
My OCD was noticed and then ignored by everyone because kids don't have mental problems. My mother didn’t get me counselling or anything because she hoped that it would just go away. Eventually, I fought it on my own and won, but for years I had been convinced someone I loved would die if I stopped. When it got to the point where I felt like I'd rather die than live like that anymore, I managed to control it. I was sure that I was the only person in the world who had ever had such an experience until I discovered that OCD existed many years later. It would have been good to know that I wasn’t alone at the time. I spent a lot of time as a kid, worrying that I was crazy. In fact, I have discovered that there is a history of OCD and depression in my own family.
So my point is basically, if you have kids, keep and eye out and don’t just discount symptoms of mental heath problems. Although I am pretty clear of OCD now, I still have to fight it every day and although I am proud of having dealt with it successfully on my own, I think that counselling, when I needed it most probably would have helped me very much.
Posted by raventh1 (Member # 3750) on :
I experienced most of the things that I could answer yes to, in a period shortly after my fathers death. In a place where life wasn't life anymore, I would escape to myself, so I wouldn't have to think or experience anything else. All of the things that I used to do have gone, with the exception of while I'm in the passenger seat of any vehicle I will see strange things happening (depending on my mood).
I attribute most of it to mild depression. Or having a lack of 'Important' things to focus on.
Edit: oh, I scored a 10
[ January 29, 2005, 09:42 AM: Message edited by: raventh1 ]
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
23
I do everything but counting and touching, but the severity of it affecting my life is not as bad as it was before I was diagnosed. I started out at The OC foundation after I was first diagnosed. I was in therapy for a few months and then I did a lot of self care with cognitive behavioral therapy. Mainly, it consists of challenging my compulsive thoughts, or accepting that they are not "me". They are me, but not the part of me that is supposed to be doing the thinking.
I think on the OCF site it mentions that women can have heightened symptoms during pregnancy or other times of physiological stress. Diabetics often have OC symptoms. This is probably due to the interaction of insulin and seratonin, and SSRIs (raise seratonin like Prozac) are prescribed for OCD. As I have mentioned elsewhere, winter with the short days makes it worse.
It can be helped by getting as much sunlight as possible, moderate exercise, and a regular sleep pattern. Carb loading also works, but usually will cause weight gain.
P.S. All kinds of stress, like what rav mentioned, can increase the symptoms if you are a person prone to this sort of thing. I think I have some genetic predisposition. Kayla, I really related to some things you've mentioned lately about phobias (the thank you thread) and hypervigilance. "Me... me... also me. Boy, I am really close on this one."
[ January 29, 2005, 05:06 PM: Message edited by: mothertree ]
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I took the test over and over again.
I can't stop.
I got a 6
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
Bob.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Bob, do you often find yourself repeatedly clicking "Post Reply" over and over again?
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
mothertree, I also think there is a genetic disposition for it. My grandmother and uncle were/are both "homebodies." It drove my mother nuts when my grandmother lived with my uncle in Chicago and my mom was in St. Louis. She used to go up all the time just so she could get my grandmother out of the house. What I could never get her to understand was that both my grandmother and uncle were much happier just staying at home and watching TV or doing their puzzles.
The thing about getting as much sun as possible is also true. Unfortunately, if I get out in the sun, I get these horrible blister/welty things all over my arms and legs. (Actually, the horrible blisters occurred while I was sitting in complete shade, being in actual sunlight. . . well, let's just say the running joke in our family is that mom is a vampire. )
And because I'm OCD, which thread are you talking about? Now I'm curious as to what I might have said about how weird I am. Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
Results of your Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Screening: You scored a total of 31
Results of your Attention Deficit Disorder Quiz: You scored a total of 99
Results of your Mania Quiz: You scored a total of 61
....eek?
edit: was laughing at mack, Kayla snuck in there while I was copypasting
[ January 29, 2005, 01:59 PM: Message edited by: MyrddinFyre ]
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
My personal hang-up:
Things have to be symmetrical and/or parallel relative to the surface on which they've been laid. If you put a magazine down on a coffee table and its edges are not parallel to the edges of the table, I will subtly nudge it until it lines up. A counter is not "clean" if the canisters arranged on it are not spaced an exact distance apart, that distance determined roughly by their diameter. And so on.
Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :
I got a 12, so I'm just barely likely to have OCD.
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
Huh, you scored pretty low, didn't you Tom?
Kayla, you mentioned hypervigilance somewhere around here. Gah! Stupid useless search. I guess it might have been on GC.
Wasn't there an X files with vampires that had OCD?
[ January 29, 2005, 05:37 PM: Message edited by: mothertree ]
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Yeah, I scored pretty low, mainly because I'm not particularly bothered or inconvenienced by my quirks -- and mainly because the quirks I do have don't fit on their list.
Had they had a whole list of questions about whether or not I'm bothered by, say, improper curtain length or slightly off-kilter runs of horizontal striping in area rugs, I would have scored higher.
I like things to line up -- or, when they don't line up, to at least deviate from parallel in an artistic way.
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
I don't bother cleaning my stovetop because I know I will never get it perfect. It's almost pornographically filthy. Posted by Mrs.M (Member # 2943) on :
I got a 24, which is lower than I thought it would be. I see my OCD as an asset, rather than a liability. My house is clean, my paperwork is organized, and I'm prepared for almost any situation. So I'm a little high-strung, no big deal.
mothertree, there are actually several ways to clean a stovetop perfectly. First, purchase a steam cleaner. I recommend the Shark brand, which you can purchase at Lowe's or Home Depot. Second, Greased Lightening can clean almost anything and you can get it for next to nothing at Wal-Mart. Third, you can purchase aluminum covers for your burner covers (also at Wal-Mart). These are great b/c you can throw them away when they get too flimsy to clean. I wash mine with regular dish detergent and they last for a few weeks. Of course, you can also fashion your own burner covers from aluminum foil if you prefer.
Not that I'm going to be up all night thinking about it or anything.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
That is why I have a ceramic stove top.
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
I'm like Tom, but not as bad, and I also tend to repeat/count things in my head when I don't have anything else to think about. One of the reasons why I can't meditate well; I just repeat the last phrase I heard until I tell myself to shut up, and then start repeating "shut up, shut up" until I go crazy and find something else to do.
quote: i think this is more an indicator of whether you're a worrywort and/or a woman.
I agree. I only got a 9, but mainly because I didn't think that my reactions were abnormally strong.
oh, and I got a 39 on the ADD test, which means boarderline ADD apparently, and a 9 on the Anxiety one, mild to little anxiety. However, I got a 31, mild to moderate, on the Depression test, and
quote: you appear to be suffering from a milde to moderate depression
jumped out at me... you'd think they would proof-read.
Posted by urbanX (Member # 1450) on :
I got a two...I wonder what the people From Path (Xenocide) Would get. 200?
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
I got a 17. It was a little lower than I expected, but I think that's partly because they didn't list some of my stuff and party because it doesn't really affect my functioning.
CM's "incomplete" word is very good, and a lot of mine is on balance... if I'm walking, and I step on a sidewalk crack with one foot (or a change in the flippin' carpet color that has no dimensional difference at all, actually) then I have to hit one with the other foot, and until I do it really bugs me, but I don't want anyone to notice so I try to do it by changing the length of my steps just a little... but if I get two or three in a row with one foot before I can balance it, I get less concerned about who's going to notice, and just take a half-step to switch my feet. Um, but I function just fine, honest...
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
26. Pretty highly functioning, especially when I have sympathetic friends. *grin
I've found ways to cope with it. Cognitive-behavioral stuff helps.
ElJay: Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
23
quote:Things have to be symmetrical and/or parallel relative to the surface on which they've been laid. If you put a magazine down on a coffee table and its edges are not parallel to the edges of the table, I will subtly nudge it until it lines up. A counter is not "clean" if the canisters arranged on it are not spaced an exact distance apart, that distance determined roughly by their diameter. And so on.
Well that does sound like me...
I see it more when I'm reading or writing though... If I find something that just isn't right, I am bugged by it constantly... Like a typo in a book...
[ January 30, 2005, 01:55 AM: Message edited by: Vadon ]
Posted by Mean Old Frisco (Member # 6666) on :
Got a 2 on the OCD and a 0 on the anxiety. But I got a 67 on the A...
Oh, look. A butterfly!
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Butterflies are what got me taken out of the outfield in softball. Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
I scored a 1. This is the only question I answered yes to:
quote: Have you worried about acting on an unwanted and senseless urge or impulse, such as physically harming a loved one, pushing a stranger in front of a bus, steering your car into oncoming traffic; inappropriate sexual contact; or poisoning dinner guests?
Just in case you are afraid to eat dinner at my house, relax. The reason I answered it is I remember a time after my first child was born constantly thinking that I would do something wrong that would hurt her. Then one day I clipped her fingernails and got it too short and her finger bled a little and she cried, and I collapsed to the floor in tears myself, certain that all my uneasy feelings that I'd hurt my child were confirmed.
But, I got over it. And when my other children were born I didn't have any trouble.
Edit: Oh I just took the Adult ADD test and scored 91.
Guess there's a reason for me to be taking that Adderall. That's good.
[ January 30, 2005, 01:20 PM: Message edited by: Belle ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I have terrible thoughts of running over those pedestrians who purposely slow down and walk across the street with the express purpose of getting people to feel like running them over.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
That's perfectly normal.
My shrink asked me once if I was ever homicidal. I replied, "Well, last night at the mall, there were a few people I had visions of killing."
He said, "That's just normal."
It was during the holiday season.
Belle, I got a 99 on the adult ADD test. o_O
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
quote: Belle, I got a 99 on the adult ADD test. o_O
Hooray! I'm not the only one! Posted by IdemosthenesI (Member # 862) on :
Starts at exactly 31 minutes in. Don't know if you are all aware of David Sedaris, but he is one of the most entertaining and interesting voices to show up on NPR, as part of the This American Life school of autobiographical essayists.
This is his story about his experience with OCD. Mind, his final solution isn't reccomended.
[ January 31, 2005, 03:45 AM: Message edited by: IdemosthenesI ]
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