OCD people: what's your magic number?

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Whatever, as long as it's even stephen.

Yes with a PH.

Wow, what a cool story. So that's how you picked your favorite numbers then? Meanwhile, 114 and million are looking like mighty good numbers as well ...

Hurley actually wishes he didn't win. After he won the $114 million, his dad died, and some bad stuff happened to him so he thinks it was a curse. Then his plane crashed and he's been stuck on an island ever since although he will probably get off the island soon. It's from the TV show LOST. I thought someone here might watch it. It's on tonight at 9pm.

My magic numbers are 3, 4 and 5.

Lost is one of my favorite shows ever. I think my favorites that are currently on are Lost, Smallville, Heroes, Terminator, and Journeyman (which was probably canceled).

Anytime anyone orders a beer, i snap my fingers three times as I open the fridge..for sodas, I snap my fingers twice...

I must have everything in multiples of five.

It depends, sometimes I need even [or I think something really bad will happen otherwise], other times it's odd [for the same reasons].

I like the number 9, but that's not related to OCD.

This thread fascinates me! I always wondered if anyone has this problem and now I know it's a common OCD behaviour.

My favourite number ever since early childhood is 4! I find it very even and symmetrical.

Most multiples of 4 is fine (unless it is also a multiple of 7 ... loses that symmetry I guess)

Off the top of my head, going through the numbers 1 to 100 these are the numbers I like (or can tolerate):

2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 36, 40, 48, 64, 72, 80, 84, 96, 100

4 and 16 are my favourite. If something has a scale of 1 to 100 (e.g. TV volume) then I'm also happy with 25, 50, and 75 since they are quartiles of 100

I'm really glad it's a low number, makes things easy for number of times I have to do things. However if I have to do something a fifth time (e.g. I clear my throat 4 times but find that it's still not "clear") then I have to do repeat it until I hit 16 (i.e. 4 x 4) times.

Anything prime and without a '6' is good for me.

Volume's on TV: Divisible by 5 and Even Numbers


Magic Number: 21, or numbers divisible by 4 up to 100. I just don't like most odd numbers, but 21 is the only one I can tolerate when dealing with certain things. Numbers isn't as big as an issue with my OCD tendencies as much as trying to complete a task by a certain time, or keeping everything in order (or at least where I can find it)

2, 4, 8, or 16.

Magic numbers and OCD? For me, all good things have to come in two's, bad things should never come in two's. If a bad thing happens twice in a row, I have to force it to "happen" again. Otherwise it would bring bad things... OCD SUCKS!! !!

4.

When I was a child I used to have a ''special number'', which was always 3. I always had to do everything 3 times, like rinse my cup out 3 times, kiss my mum 3 times, brush my hair each side 3 times, etc. But I very slowly outgrew it, and now I don't seem to have a ''special number'' any more. I don't even have a favourite number any more.

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