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leftyladyfrommo

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10. I have OCD but not the cleaning kind.
Wed Jan 7, 2015, 11:53 AM
Jan 2015

Those people who feel constantly compelled to clean are absolutely miserable. They simply can't stop. Eventually it can ruin their marriages. It can completely mess up their kids. And they can't stop.

I knew one woman who couldn't leave her house until she had vacuumed the rug and no one had stepped on it. If someone left a footprint she had to start all over. All the cans in her cupboards had to be in alphabetical order and absolutely straight.

Some people can't get out of their house.

It's really a horrible, horrible thing to have to deal with. I think WHO rates OCD as the 3rd most crippling disorder.

I have the kind where I have to check things over and over. It got so bad that I was afraid I would not be able to work. But I went on high dose Prozac for about 8 months and that kicked it. It's still there but the compulsion is not so bad that I can't deal with it.

It sounds funny. But it is a really devastating disorder.

That would be my wife... mikeysnot Jan 2015 #1
Yeah, you're right. What would the crew do, track mud on the floor and hedgehog Jan 2015 #7
Mine, too Roland99 Jan 2015 #16
They probably wouldn't allow a production crew in Union Scribe Jan 2015 #2
Either that or TlalocW Jan 2015 #3
Been done spinbaby Jan 2015 #4
I like the idea but think it would fail olddots Jan 2015 #5
Hoarding is not really marions ghost Jan 2015 #6
Have you ever seen pipi_k Jan 2015 #11
There's really no rhyme or reason for hoarding. hunter Jan 2015 #14
not greed -- a form of greiving, a dysfunctional way of coping with loss GreatGazoo Jan 2015 #19
I think part of my OP is a response to the not so subtle hints from my sister hedgehog Jan 2015 #8
Allow me to introduce you to one of the biggest trainwrecks on the internet tabbycat31 Jan 2015 #9
I have OCD but not the cleaning kind. leftyladyfrommo Jan 2015 #10
I've been on the very far edge of that sometimes - wondering if I turned the stove off - hedgehog Jan 2015 #13
I pet sit so I am in a lot of really big homes. leftyladyfrommo Jan 2015 #17
I wonder if those "sterile" houses are indicative of minds with few thoughts csziggy Jan 2015 #20
I'm a reader, too. leftyladyfrommo Jan 2015 #22
I have been in houses where their clutter is organized csziggy Jan 2015 #25
I'd like to see one about Money Hoarders. sabrina 1 Jan 2015 #12
+1000. adirondacker Jan 2015 #28
Same to you, Adirondacker! sabrina 1 Jan 2015 #30
They already have that show... lame54 Jan 2015 #15
A lot of reality shows are about pathology treestar Jan 2015 #18
My daughter would qualify. We all call her a clean-a-holic. She goes to visit her children and jwirr Jan 2015 #21
For some people, this is a problem of OCD. But i think for others, this is a hedgehog Jan 2015 #23
I think the last is definitely part of it. Her grandmother kept a very clean household and she loved jwirr Jan 2015 #24
I very much agree. I'm very thankful for the thoughtful repsonses here. hedgehog Jan 2015 #27
So it would be a show about people with OCD? dilby Jan 2015 #26
haven't seen that since i moved out of the ashram... librechik Jan 2015 #29
A show about people who lead Turbineguy Jan 2015 #31
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