Do I have OCD?

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Ah, yes. I see.

Thanks for explaining that, Kate. Did the feeling that particular numbers were so significant ever actually stop you getting on a plane because they appeared in the ticket number or the flight number, fr'instance? Or do you just have a heightened awareness that particular numbers 'exist'?

Sorry if I'm boring you with all these questions, but I do find this stuff genuinely very interesting :)

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link

This thread is so L O S T!

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, it's not that I'm bored by these questions, I'm just uncomfortable discussing it any further on a public forum where mental illness is viewed as a spectator sport.

I just wanted to reassure the original poster that this "numerical mania" is a fairly common symptom of our disease.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

'kay :)

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm just uncomfortable discussing it any further on a public forum where mental illness is viewed as a spectator sport.

i have some er 'knowledge' of this sort of OCD thing and also agree with the above; my email works if anyone would like to talk about anything they don't want to be googleable or archived on ILX forever

― DG (D_To_The_G), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess it doesn't count if you choose to observe number patterns and not let it get to you, which is what I do sometimes. I had an inordinate amount of 666 for a little while, which was great because it was about the same time I started getting back into Aleister Crowley.

― Totally Different Guy Now (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks Little Star,

Yeah, given that my mania is really crazy when I'm off my meds and centers on referential stuff, it makes sense that this is just a lesser version of that.

Best,

C.C.

― Colin_C. (Colin Cassidy), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I have used numbers to call forth demons.

I say, "Satan, what is the square root of Jehovah, motherfucker?!?!"

I am never let down.

― Totally Different Guy Now (Dick Butkus), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:57 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

heyy! soooooo OCD

― surm, Thursday, 10 November 2011 06:39 (twelve years ago) link

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRjH9xI8JyuLMN4ACl9qoUmwLZ8dX15oGzN599SjYEDvcEUEDbwOOeSsQ8kSg

― surm, Thursday, 10 November 2011 06:51 (twelve years ago) link

four years pass...

is this the thread?

― qualx, Sunday, 29 May 2016 03:42 (eight years ago) link

what do you know about obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?

You might be looking for this one?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 29 May 2016 10:14 (eight years ago) link

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