Do you have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?

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I have not being clinically diagnosed with OCD but long before I know for sure I was diagnosed as autistic as a young child I have felt an irresistible urge to perform the same task over and over again or looking up the same word in a dictionary over and over again. Sometimes even playing the same scene of a VCR video tape over and over again or check on certain page in the internet over and over. Hair combing was another one. I would comb me hair hundreds of times a day like it was a form of stimming.

I was not willing to discuss this with my psychiatrist but had he had know I could have been probably have been diagnosed with OCD had he had known. But now I know this disorder coupled with social interactive, social communication disorder which he and I already knew full well I had. I also have many motor tics which does drive me into these repetitive behaviors. Of as soon as I feel a tick it is like the imputus to repeat the bahavior again and again. For a long time I was in denial of it. Now I have come to terms with fact I have OCD.

Is anyone one else here so well acquainted with this condition?

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I've always had some OCD traits. Not sure whether what I have is mild or severe.
Never been diagnosed anything that I know of.

oh yeah, all 4 of us, me, my wife, and both sons. With me and my youngest son, though, Tourette's is much more noticeable. We've had more than one doctor tell us they're related. It's like Tourette's is OCD for the vocal system.

I have mild OCD, mainly perfectionistic behavior (I get very annoyed if one of my "system" of doing a task is disturbed, and example is the way I set up dishes and silverware on metal carts for the rooms at the preschool I work at, I have a system I follow in arraigning the dishes on the carts that maximizes the space for the serving bowls filled with food.) and harmless repetitive checking behavior like seeing if I have my keys in my pocket, if the oven if off while I am eating, and checking to make sure my clock's alarm is on.

I have OCD traits but isn't that part of autism?

Diagnostic Criteria for 299.00 Autistic Disorder
# restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and activities, as manifested by at least one of the following:
1. encompassing preoccupation with one or more stereotyped and restricted patterns of interest that is abnormal either in intensity or focus
2. apparently inflexible adherence to specific, nonfunctional routines or rituals
3. stereotyped and repetitive motor manners (e.g., hand or finger flapping or twisting, or complex whole-body movements)
4. persistent preoccupation with parts of objects

http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/overvi ... iteria.htm

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OCD has completely seperate criteria.

OCD can potentially ruin your life if severe enough.

Thankfully mine is under control.

I have some OCD traits but not enough for a diagnosis.

For example...when ever I turn a light on or off, I have to make sure that the switch is "flat" and usually press it 14 times to make sure that it is. If I step on a crack in the pavement while walking, I have to step on the next one with my other foot and the next one with both feet at the same time.
There are a few other little things that I do...but it's not enough as such to "take control of my life".

I'll notice myself avoiding the cracks on the ground when I walk, but if I think about it too much I stop caring and it affects me in no way.

So I'm not OCD, and I doubt it has to do with autism, though I know autistic people who are OCD.

I have learned that for me their is a difference between OCD and AS but there is an overlap, this overlap has been important for ME to understand.

The difference for me is that my OCD is un-life affirming (yet at the same time has a value) where as my AS routines, funny noises, lists etc are life containing and affirming.

They overlap for ME when i get into overwhelm or meltdown mode and then I feel like I am going to die or go insane, then OCD comes in as a way of de-catastrophizing the situation.

I have learned to see this pattern and then practice CBT and bring myself back to my comforting Aspie way of being.

I believe it very un helpful to not see the interconnectedness of such things. It has taken me many years of working on myself to find MY pattern, and my life is so much the better for such work.

Yeah, I have OCD; not as bad anymore because I treated myself. I still "pass" the psychiatric tests, but it barely affects me compared to my autism (I was homebound for several years due to the "severe" OCD--I couldn't leave the house); it was easy to fix.

Autism cannot be "fixed" like OCD.

No I do not have OCD. But I used to think I had it because my mother mention to me I have it. She is always saying "That is the obsessive compulsive" and "that is the OCD."

I think the doctor who DX'ed me with Asperger's originally wanted to say I was OCD.

I do think there is an overlap and someone with OCD could be considered autistic--not sure how to draw the line...

My son seems to have a certain way of doing things, must repeat things in the same way: For example, I have to walk in front of him before we leave the house. My older son was like this to the degree that he would return pretending he forgot something if he wasn't the last one out.

I do think my younger son has more complex patterns some I'm aware of and some I'm not that interfere with experiencing things from a broader perspective. For instance, when we go to the library, or wherever we go, he always has questions to ask, something specific he's looking for and it's ALWAYS a challenge. He told me one time while walking out of th elibrary, that he liked the actual search for something. Funny. I think the search is almost a stim or a pattern that he's caught up in because he HAS to go right to the reference person or person with authority/knowledge with his questions. It begins with "I wanted to ask you a question..." He loves the investigative stuff. So maybe this is OCD? The drive, desire to search for some particular?

OCD is prevalent, I think, because it's a way for people to make attempts to exert control when they are feeling pressure.

Maybe it's to a more extreme degree with people/kids on the spectrum?

equinn

I do have some OCD traits but i haven't been diagnosed wid OCD though.

I have some traits, but not enough for a diagnosis of OCD.