What kind of disorder do you think this could be? I’m thinking it’s either ocd or a tic disorder.?
-I touch my face. When it itches or gets sweaty, I’m extremely prone to touching my face. I always just touch in general when I’m nervous though, regaurdless of my face sweating or not. It seems to be my nose that I play with the most.
-When I’m anxious, I clamp my hands together as if I were praying. But I’m not praying. I just feel tingling in my fingers out of nervousness and that HAS to stop. I also twiddle my fingers repetitively.
-I check things back and forth. Last night I checked the car several times in the back before I locked it so my mom wouldn’t get mad at me in case I didn’t bring all the groceries in. I’m most prone to checking the mailbox. No particular reason at all. Like, see, I found old lint or paper in it and that freaked me out so I took it out. I don’t get why I do this. I also check the kitchen pantry, freezer and refrigerator and I have no idea why.
Sometimes, while in the bathroom, I take my sponge and I push it across my chest over and over until I feel satisfied.
-I began pulling my eyebrow hair yesterday. I just pluck it when I feel this imaginary "twitching" thing, which I’m relating to anxiety. I had to pluck certain hairs out with tweezers because they were too long or stuck out and that bothered me to my wit’s end. But usually my fingers do the trick.
-I do this weird thing; when I was twelve I told myself that if I walk across the speed bump a few times my mom would pick me up from school and if I didn’t, she wouldn’t come so I walked across the speedbump. I do stuff like that a lot, a game I call scenarios. This isn’t a problem anymore, but something I still do on a regular basis.
I’m going to the doctor, but insight would be nice.
…i’m no doctor. we all have compulsions. i’m a counter. i count everything. but i believe when it comes to ocd, one is driven to the compulsion because if the ritual is not performed, something terrible will happen…ie, you mom not picking you up or your mom getting mad at you. make sure you bring th is up with the doc. it sounds like you may also be suffering from anxiety.
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…i’m no doctor. we all have compulsions. i’m a counter. i count everything. but i believe when it comes to ocd, one is driven to the compulsion because if the ritual is not performed, something terrible will happen…ie, you mom not picking you up or your mom getting mad at you. make sure you bring th is up with the doc. it sounds like you may also be suffering from anxiety.
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I would go see your doctor i think its just anxity
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To me it sounds like it could be OCD. The stuff your doing sounds like its compulsions. The symptoms your describing sound like they are OCD, a doctor will be able to tell you whether or not it is for sure.
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Wow, I do a lot of those things as well. I’m always nervous, and I always touch my face, whether it’s my eye or my cheek or something. But definitely I need to touch my nose all the time, but like a certain number of times before I can stop.
And I do the hand thing too, I twiddle my fingers constantly, like whenever I’m talking to someone.
I don’t check things like you do, so maybe that could be OCD or something.
And when I was younger I walked to a nearby elementary school for my school bus to pick me up and take me to mine, before I crossed any streets I had to cross my eyes and then continue because I believed that if I didn’t do that then I’d get abducted. Looking back it was really strange.
But it sounds like it’s all connected to anxiety and maybe OCD.
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