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10 signs you may have OCD
Stoic Joker:
On a more serious note, I have been growing increasingly annoyed by the need for people to "diagnose" the psychological condition of everyone. Depression, anxiety, OCD, etc. I don't know why it bothers me so much (probably indicative of one of these conditions), but it does. It seems to do more harm than good. Like that person who points out the zit on your face, as if you're not already aware of it. Just being a dick. "What is that thing on your face?" Shut up.
So what if someone washes their hands a lot. Unless it's really a bad problem that is severely affecting their lives (how do you judge where the line is?) just leave them alone. Some people organize things a little obsessively. So what? It's not bad! There's some value to that! Some people don't organize at all. So what?!-superboyac (July 02, 2013, 03:16 PM)
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I think it's a down-side effect of the hyper-PC movement (speaking of another group that ought to be castrated with fishing knives). For some reason these idiots feel safer if they keep every(one/)thing labeled so the know exactly what to not offend them with (Can U say counter productive...).
Well, that and is seems to be somewhat trendy these days to be mildly damaged. Just look at some of the lead (hero) characters in the TV shows that have been coming out lately. ...Sure he carries on lengthy dialogs with his hallucinations...but he's a brilliant crime solver. O'RLY?
Not!
...The inmates are running the asylum, and they're starting to penalize people for being normal.
And for some reason, it has been particularly prevalent in Los Angeles. Maybe so in other places to, but I have really noticed it here lately. Wives telling husbands all the little things wrong with them. Bosses nitpicking every little thing here and there. People are different. Oh this person is antisocial, he likes to keep to himself, so creepy (me). Oh that person is pretentious, always needing to talk a lot. Where is this perfect balance they want? Now, they'll hear me talking like this and say I have anger issues, why am I depressed? Oh you're too negative (to me). Oh you're too positive (me to them). Sheesh.
I'll tell you one thing. I haven't been able to do much really good things without getting pretty OCD about it. Whether it's music, drawing, project management, etc. I've read journals by great men who accomplished great things, and they were super OCD. The Germans? Please.-superboyac (July 02, 2013, 03:16 PM)
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I'm a German/Hispanic split ... So half of me gets what you mean...and the other half wants to take a nap. :D
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Can I nominate SB for a best rant of the week award?
superboyac:
Can I nominate SB for a best rant of the week award?
-Stoic Joker (July 02, 2013, 10:18 PM)
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;D I'd be truly honored!
Sidenote, I first started being aware of this stuff when I noticed on my friend's bookshelf of The Greatest Books of Western Civilization or something like that, and included there was Faraday's journals. And at the time I was writing my electrical engineering practice manuals. So I started reading it and it just hit me how consumed this guy was with his experiments. From my own experiences, I had always felt a degree of shame for getting "too into" things, and would either hide behind some humor or just hide it altogether. So that helped me realize that getting super OCD about things is really the only way to figure things out well. So now I'm just open about it, and I let people make their jokes, and I've learned not to be so defensive about it. But now I get defensive about these psychological accusations because there are so many people in my life who have been, IMO (not theirs) pretty affected by it. And I obviously have my moments too, that stuff is contagious for some reason.
my secret ocd...i absolutely love organizing files on the computer.
TaoPhoenix:
There's also a "chart" where "obsessive" is on one axis, but on the other is "importance". You don't hear people complain that bridge engineers are "OCD"!! No, if they study a design prototype-mockup in great, lavish detail, first doing some math, then measuring structural angles, simulating wind, and tons more, you basically leave them alone/help if needed and say "great job!"
And then on the recreational side, when a finished result is presented, and it's *good*, everyone cheers. "Dabbling" is notoriously slammed in recreational projects.
It's only when it's external stuff that gets "super-managed" that people think it's a problem. But the little quirks are all wrapped up in the rest of you.
So what do they want? Chuck the TV show did a great ongoing parody of all this - Ryan McPartlin's "Captain Awesome". Never a line mis-spoken, in near perfect physical shape, etc.
SergXov:
I have an uncontrollable urge to wash my hands every time I'm forced to handle an Apple device ... Is that a bad sign?
-Stoic Joker (June 28, 2013, 03:00 PM)
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No, it's not an bad sign .
Stoic Joker:
Sidenote, I first started being aware of this stuff when I noticed on my friend's bookshelf of The Greatest Books of Western Civilization or something like that, and included there was Faraday's journals. And at the time I was writing my electrical engineering practice manuals. So I started reading it and it just hit me how consumed this guy was with his experiments. From my own experiences, I had always felt a degree of shame for getting "too into" things, and would either hide behind some humor or just hide it altogether. So that helped me realize that getting super OCD about things is really the only way to figure things out well.-superboyac (July 02, 2013, 11:52 PM)
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That's not OCD...that's determination. I learned at a very young age, that I could do anything...if I really put my mind to it. Applying ones self I believe it's usually (/supposed to be) called. Ya know, nothing worth doing is ever easy and all that.
15 years ago I hated computers and thought they were evil. Now (thanks to a pivotal event) I'm the admin for one of the largest IT companies in the area. That's not OCD ... That's setting a goal and going for it.
Why has it become fashionable to be slightly damaged?? *Shrug* ...I'm guessing it just a side effect of the everybody gets a trophy school of "thought" (e.g. horse shit).
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