Are you obsessive-compulsive or passive-aggressive?

I still don't know how I feel. I mean, 50 years ago, wasn't homosexuality also looked upon as a mental illnes/"condition." I just hve a problem with all of these labels, these neat little categories they want to put you in

Plus, it leads to more self-victimization too. "Yes, I am bi-polar, doctor told me so," which leads to more dubious rationalizations. Get what I'm saying?

Labels are dumb, yeah, and any "disorder" is just an exaggeration of normal behaviour. But if it's helpful to categorise in order to understand said behaviour, then fine, do it.

I divert the behaviour into realms where it's acceptible, and even useful. I wouldn't be as good as I am at my job here without my edge of compulsivity, I mean, checking numbers all bloody day, what kind of freak is good at that? And playing guitar, you have to do it over and over again until you get it right. Maybe to someone that would seem like OCD, but to musicians, it's called PRACTICE.

I don't know. I'm ranting. I'm bipolar, too, so what? I always used it as just an explanation, not a justification or an excuse.

I would say that I'm OCD except that I know my youngest sister and she has it way worse than I do. I almost feel normal around her. I definitely think I'm egocentric. And you might as well throw in some sort of anti-social disorder while you're at it. I think I'm very outgoing but my entire family says I'm crazy to think so.

Anyway, if I have to pick b/w OCD and passive-aggression, I'll go with the former.

I don't really know if I know any true passive-aggressives or bi-polars, though. Couldn't it just be called, eh, "moodiness" ?? I don't know. Its too hard to sort out all three of these labels anyway. When does PA hit BiP levels, and where does it overlap with OC?

aggressive/EXPLOSIVE
passive/catatonic
catatonic/incontinent
incontinent/EXPLOSIVE

etc.

oh shit! Think I left the stove on again. Hold on a sec.

vesuv rams meagre ile cosmos - ban pi!

i had a major thing in my childhood about doing things in groups of four, and drilled it into myself to such an extent that i still do it (although it's done on such a subconscious level at this stage that its not such an EXHAUSTING CHORE as it used to be). ive been lumbered with this bizarre habit for so long that if i ever met my childhood self i'd give it a good thrashing for insisting on such bizarre routines.

it's not a source of any real trauma, though. i find it pretty funny, in many ways...

do any of you still force yourself to undergo bizarre routines?

* When I'm editing audio tracks in my music production work, my edits must be ABSOLUTELY, PERFECTLY SEAMLESS. Backing vocals have to be cut so that they are in perfect unison rhythmically; lead vocals need inhales and exhales level-reduced so that they are audible but not intrusive. All "dead" air between verse & chorus sections is cut out completely. Any time I've handed vocals to other people for remixes, they've joked that they were "so clean you could eat off of them". I've been almost physically ill when I've had to rush things and deliver work that, to my ears, was less than ideal.

* I HATE food bits sticking to the dish cloth when I'm washing dishes - I HAVE to constantly rinse and wring out the cloth. I also HAVE to rinse the dishes thoroughly.
Don't ask me why.

* I had a TERRIBLE habit of picking at scabs as a kid. Bleh. I don't really do this anymore.

* I killed many an hour as a teen making sure my drums were set up perfectly, so that they were super-playable (in terms of the angles and distances) and aesthetically pleasing.

* I cannot take the top newspaper from the stack in the newspaper box.

* I mentioned elsewhere that I will fixate on altercations with people. Fortunately, I don't have that many, but when they do happen... I can't let go until my brain lets me.

I'm sure there's more weirdness - this is just off the top of my head.

The touching wood thing is the only one of these that I still find myself doing, it's not so hard to consciously stop myself now whereas previously I really couldn't. It seems quite funny now, I was never really treated for it or anything.

i am so obsessive compulsive i think i'm gonna throw up

And then clean it up. Five times.

I am demonically well-adjusted.

well, I love music, so that suggests something...

so i've seen a doctor about this. it helped. but i still have problems with it.

sorry to hear that!

it's ok, i'll be fine

Not a stigma you should have to live with, I am sure. I am guilty of hoarding, so was my dad....but after my father passed (he had the same issue to the point where he was given medication), I am not sorry he saved so much crap. It's a lot of work but it makes me feel closer to him.