I think I have OCD when I lose something. How about you?

[supsx]

Something is wrong with me I think, I spent the last 1-2 hours searching for (get this)... the small stupid cap to a Krazy Glue container, still can't find it after turning everything upside down, I have no idea what it rolled under. Arggg, I think I am KrAzY.

So what happens when you lose something?

[Bazooka Joe]

tl:dr

[XxXSnake23XxX]

i am the same,
if i loose something, i HAVE to find it!
and if I can't find it I accept defeat, but sadly, i find the things im looking for when im not looking for them at all.

[deltone]

Hey, are you my daughter-in-law? LOL Just a couple of days ago she was talking about this sort of thing and how she'll actually lose sleep fretting over some silly little lost thing.

When you lose something, do you tend to look in the same places, over and over again, as if somehow it will appear there even though it wasn't there 20 minutes ago? LOL I know I do.

[Mattones]

I dont think thats OCD. Thats just determined to find the lost object.
:lol:

[supsx]

I don't know, I know I can go to the dollar store and get a whole new one for a dollar and here I wasted like 2 hours looking. Ok I understand someone loosing a priceless piece of jewelery and going crazy but searching for something stupid like a krazy glue cap it makes me feel stupid.

edit- and I have a headache now, the screen loos a little blurry, arghh, Tylenol time.

[user01]

For me, I wouldn't give up. I remember I had to find a receipt for a $750 electronic device and I went through the whole house to look for it. At the end, I saw the messes I created and it took me 4 hours to tidy up. Oh well, its worth the time since I did found the receipt on that day. :razz::razz::razz:

[teknoluv]

1. No, that's NOT OCD.

2. When you lose something, you DON'T PHYSICALLY turn everything upside down, you THINK.

[discostupid]

OCD is more like when something happens to you and you post about it on RFD off topic

[Matrixvibe]

stupid question...but wats OCD?

[ullyeus]

that's not even close to what OCD is.

*shrug* I hate losing stuff though...

[7Stryder7]

stupid question...but wats OCD?

ever heard of something called the internet?

[deltone]

stupid question...but wats OCD?

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

[AcidBomber]

stupid question...but wats OCD?


;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive-compulsive_disorder

[Mugen123]

tl:dr

4 lines? :confused:

[ES_Revenge]

I dont think thats OCD. Thats just determined to find the lost object.
:lol:
x2 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a real disorder and making silly threads about trying to find something you lost and calling it "OCD" colloquially does nothing other than detract from what is otherwise a much more serious condition. :rolleyes:

Note that even obsessive compulsive behaviour (which you might consider the OPs behaviour when they lose something) is not necessarily obsessive compulstive disorder.

The disorder is typically only experienced when a person's compulsions start to become significant parts of their lives and have no realistic connection to anything. For example, going to great lengths trying to find something has a desired result (finding the item) and the actions (doing all sorts of things to find it) is a typically sensible solution. OCD on the other hand would involve things like lining up the socks in your sock drawer or touching your hair three times so you don't get into a car accident that day or so your friend/husband/wife doesn't have something bad happen to them. These are totally unrelated things as you can see. Socks in a drawer or touching your hair have absolutely nothing to do with preventing "bad things" from occuring.

Furthermore the disorder often takes over the normal life of a person and starts to interfere with them from doing things normally because they must, for reasons they don't even understand themselves, follow these compulsions. E.g. it can prevents them from taking care of themselves or their children; or from doing their job properly; or going to school; or driving their car; etc.

Finding a cap for a glue container, you're making a somewhat reasonable decision to turn the place upside down looking for it because you want to find it. Looking for something is the normal way to find something (it's always the last place you put it LOL). If however you were doing something like lining up the cans in the pantry every half hour, with the belief that this would prevent you from losing things in general, then that would be an OCD-related occurence.

Now if you devote your life to finding this glue cap and like quit your job, stop eating, etc., then yeah that would be a problem. Probably not exactly OCD, but another mental problem for sure, LOL.

[Nikita]

Hey, are you my daughter-in-law? LOL Just a couple of days ago she was talking about this sort of thing and how she'll actually lose sleep fretting over some silly little lost thing.

When you lose something, do you tend to look in the same places, over and over again, as if somehow it will appear there even though it wasn't there 20 minutes ago? LOL I know I do.

LOL...wow, I just did that this morning. But what I find even more bizarre, and this has happened to me more than once, including this morning, is when you've looked in the same place 20 times and then suddenly there it is in that exact place you looked 20 times...lol. Happened this morning with a particular comb I use when I style my hair one particular way. I knew where it was, where it always is, but it wasn't there this morning (at least not the first 19 times...lol...and then suddenly I looked again and dammit if it wasn't right where it was supposed to be. I think god was playing tricks on me...lol.

I don't know, I know I can go to the dollar store and get a whole new one for a dollar and here I wasted like 2 hours looking. Ok I understand someone loosing a priceless piece of jewelery and going crazy but searching for something stupid like a krazy glue cap it makes me feel stupid.

edit- and I have a headache now, the screen loos a little blurry, arghh, Tylenol time.

Yeah, I had borrowed my mom's Rolex for a while and during that time she wore her Tag. Since I gave her Rolex back she can't remember where the hell she put her Tag. Everytime she starts searching for something she can't find I tell her to stop looking cuz, as someone says, things usually turn up when you're not looking for them. Well, it's been months now and she's started and stopped looking a number of times now and it hasn't turned up. I know it has to be in her house somewhere, she just changed watches when I gave hers back to her, she never took it out of the house but it won't turn up! Now we're afraid she might have just put it on the coffee table next to the couch and one of the cats might have knocked it into the garbage (they've knocked other things from that table into the garbage). Yikes...her Tag of all things! And it's not even so much that it's an expensive watch, but it's very sentimental to her cuz my dad bought it for her and is now passed away. I fear we'll be searching for that watch forever now...:(

[deltone]

LOL...wow, I just did that this morning. But what I find even more bizarre, and this has happened to me more than once, including this morning, is when you've looked in the same place 20 times and then suddenly there it is in that exact place you looked 20 times...lol. Happened this morning with a particular comb I use when I style my hair one particular way. I knew where it was, where it always is, but it wasn't there this morning (at least not the first 19 times...lol...and then suddenly I looked again and dammit if it wasn't right where it was supposed to be. I think god was playing tricks on me...lol.


And it's not even so much that it's an expensive watch, but it's very sentimental to her cuz my dad bought it for her and is now passed away. I fear we'll be searching for that watch forever now...:(

YES!! That has happened to me a few times and it drives me crazy because I checked very carefully the first few times so how does it just appear? Makes no sense but it does happen. The thing that really bugs me is when I lose something, and I replace it because I need it and then I find the original thing and it's too late to return the replacement.

Many years ago when my daughter was a wee toddler (she's almost 24 now) I had purchased a very expensive little pair of Italian white shoes for a wedding she was going to attend. So just prior to needing them, I could not find the one shoe. Looked high and low and it was nowhere to be found so I had to go out and buy her another pair which she wore to her aunts wedding.

A couple of days later, there was the lost shoe, right in a spot where I'd looked a number of times. All of a sudden it was there. I couldn't even return the shoes as they'd been warn. I was really p*ssed off. LOL (obviously,, as I'm still whining about it over 20 years later).

As far as your mom's watch goes, I hope she finds it as I know that the sentimental value can be a real crusher when that sort of thing happens.