I used to be

[Glasgow]

I think I used to have OCD when I was bout 10. I was obsessed with washing my hands, I had to wash them after everything I touched. Was that OCD?

[RunAwayMolly]

yep. if that was just it then it wasnt so bad... but there might have been more that you didnt notice...

[Shaolin]

I used to do stupid stuff like that as a kid aswell, i still do some ritual things...

I turn off my speaker before i goto bed everynight.

I used to not be able to sleep unless id had a shower before bed, i recognised that was silly and stopped doing it as sometimes id have showers at like 4 am and wake people up. I remmeber recognising it as stupid, and finding it hard to stop, but i did eventually, i forget how.

Don't worry too much about it now if you aren't experiancing anything intrusive.

[JoshDude]

Sounds like you had OCD.

[Blahages]

I used to wash my hands like that all the time. It got so bad that they became extremely chapped, and I had to get some medicated cream for it. Whenever I'd apply it, it would burn like crazy. My doctor tried a few different medications, but they never did anything.

I had a few things that I did. I always checked the locks on the basement walkout door before I went to bed. I'm open my door constantly, for like 2 minutes about every 2 seconds and look at the lock.

Yay paranoia. Also, any time I'd think about a sickness, for one reason or another, I'd start telling myself I wanted it, even though I didn't, and would have to repeat this stupid phrase a couple times, basically telling myself to forget what I said, a whole bunch of times, before I would be fine again.

I've always developed habits really easily. I've gotten over most of what I talked about above, except the germ thing, and developing some habits really easily. I quit washing my hands all the time, and instead, started using various utensils to eat, or, using a paper towel to hold food. Never hands. I got to the point where I wouldn't eat with my hands period, even if I had washed them. I managed to force myself a few times on and off over the past few years to eat with my hands after a thorough hand washing, and a few extremely rare times, when I hadn't washed them in the past 20 seconds.

Fun. I realize I didn't have nearly as bad a case as a lot of people do, but it was still annoying.

[Physicist]

I don't think so, you just had an idea for a while and got over it. You don't just "get over" OCD, and having it so young is kind of odd too.

[Glenn]

hey i do that even now and its hard to stop... like ive mustta washed my hands about 7 times today ... although sometiems not excessivly but more like hmm donno how to describe it ... anyway i also get told by girls and such that my hands are really really soft even tho i occasionally do boxing and stuff like that

[DouggyO.o]

this needs to be lost. its quite old!