DevilKisses wrote:
I'm pretty sure I have these worries because of Pure-O OCD. Pure-O OCD makes people have irrational obsessions with more hidden compulsions than OCD. I think my obsession with growing up started when I was about seven or eight. My mom told me that I'm not as mature as other kids my age.
I have a similar kind of obsession about comparing myself to other people. I'm not sure what originally set it off. Probably when I started my current job 7 years ago since it put me in a different kind of social environment. I started getting lots of questions about why I'm not married, why I don't have children, etc. and it made me feel like I was abnormal and alien. And I noticed it got a lot worse after I joined Facebook and I noticed people my own age are mostly married with kids and what not. I feel better when I limit my interaction on FB. Maybe coming here does to you what FB does to me.
It didn't really occur to me that I might have OCD until I saw you mention Pure-O here. I'm probably not Pure-O though, just regular OCD. I recently realized I do OCD hair cutting. I probably have some other OCD habits that I don't want to think about right now.
I'm glad when you post here because your posts are always interesting, and I learn things from you.
Pure-O is more of a slang term than an accurate description. Pure-O means that someone has OCD, but their obsessions are worse than their compulsions. That makes it harder to treat. A lot of Pure-O compulsions are more internal, while classical OCD compulsions are more obvious and externalized. A common Pure-O obsession is sexuality. When I had my sexuality obsession one of my compulsions was to check if I was sexually attracted to random people. It's not as obvious as hand washing so it's way harder to stop that compulsion.
30 Oct 2014, 7:00 pm
