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From what I have heard about it I suffer similar symptons.........but I'm not sure how to tell.......
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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. Posts: 9871 | Registered: Aug 2001
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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...
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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...
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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.
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I got a 40!! A 40!!!! I didn't think I was that bad.....oh well I guess OCD can't be that bad..... Posts: 6026 | Registered: Dec 2004
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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.
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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?
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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:
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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?
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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...
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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.
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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.
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I got a 22...apparently the meds they've got me on just make me happier about being OCD rather than stopping it
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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?
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I would get ready of it if I could. It isn't so bad I can't do anything....but I have some problems....
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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."
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