Lost marbles? Hell no. I know EXACTLY where every marble is.

[flexagon]

This weekend floated by all too fast. I did get to see my old friend Y, who's happy and doing well, and apfelsingail, to whom I donated a few hours of manual labor (thus hopefully burning off the many, many simple carbs I ate on Sunday).

Then, this morning I got my head shrunk. Bah. Now I have a little bitty head and a professional opinion that I probably have OCD. Huh. This isn't necessarily so bad since OCD is one of those spectrum things that it's possible to have just a little bit of, which would be my case... but I still feel some skepticism. First, really, who out there doesn't have any compulsive behavior? And also, plenty of things are good to do regularly/ritually, so I doubt that zero compulsiveness is the optimal or normal human level. I dunno... I'm not denying the initial diagnosis, but I was also getting the feeling that anyone with any bad habit might have resulted in the same opinion from her. So I have my little OCD reading list now, and that should be kind of fun and relevant to learn about, but at the same time I feel just a bit cheated. This is a downer if she's right and a different kind of downer if she's wrong. Oh, but wait... did I just say I'm down... and isn't there depression in my family? Clearly it's clinical. Somebody get me some meds before I flip out and open fire on my officemates.

Comments

OCD

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Interesting...

Why did you see her? The reason I'm asking is because it sounds like you didn't expect that diagnosis, or if you did you don't think it's a bad thing, and usually people see shrinks if they think there's something wrong with their behavior.

Anyway, yeah, it's all a spectrum. And good things can come out of the extremes too (eg. creativity with bi-polar).

Re: OCD

[flexagon]

I'd rather not say. Think of it like smoking though... it's a bad habit that (quite likely) has a physical cause but is made worse by behavior. While it's not the worst problem I've ever had, I realized recently that I've had it for quite a while and that I may never have better health insurance to help me figure out what it is.

I probably don't sound very negative about OCD because of all the things you said (plus being familiar with mental illnesses that are a whole lot worse) but I was surprised. Even knowing the problem has a physical aspect and a mental one, I guess I was expecting to pick up some practical tips on breaking bad habits, rather than being categorized. Feels funny. *squirms*

Re: OCD

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Even knowing the problem has a physical aspect and a mental one, I guess I was expecting to pick up some practical tips on breaking bad habits, rather than being categorized.

Carry on. :)

Re: OCD

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Er- not sure what that msg got truncated, what I meant to say was

That makes sense, carry on. :)

Re: OCD

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

er. what = why.

Going away now before I get labelled OCD for compulsively correcting myself.

Re: OCD

[flexagon]

And here I thought you were calling me carrion. Look people, I think the labeling has gone far enough for one day. :)

[webrat.livejournal.com]

*gives flexy something tranquil to drink*

It's all better now, nothing to see here now. *wipes babbling drool from flexy's lips*

[flexagon]

How can you say everything's better when the pink caterpillars are CLEARLY taking over the world!?

Though somehow when I drink your drink they begin to seem sort of cute, and fuzzy, and far away.