I just now saw this part. Interesting, I am also bothered by bone, hair, fat and veins in food. Whenever I eat meat, the first thing I do is spend time cutting the fat away. I hate, hate, hate finding hidden fat... its nasty... almost makes me gag. Fish is the worst food if you hate veins and hidden bones. I always eat fish slowly. This is a big reason why i prefer catfish and red fish varieties; no veins and light to non--existent on the bones, it seems. Never had a problem with those two fish.

Oh don't get me started on jam. I have always just used the jelly part and metodically avoided the lumps. My family have always simultaneously laughed and shook their heads at this, and even said that I was disposing of the best parts. Yikes!

My most bothersome OCD ritual involved me checking
every single sound that I heard to see if it in fact existed
in order to reassure myself that I wasn't going psychotic.

The fear of psychosis was once a very big issue in my life,
and being that hallucinations can be a symptom of schizophrenia,
it was very important for me to double check to make sure
I wasn't hearing things.

You can imagine what my day was like, as the number of
random sounds you hear throughout any given day is too
numerous to thoroughly research. I can't imagine what
my neighbors must've thought of me as I stuck my head
out of windows to double check the sound of a plane flying
overhead.

Thank goodness this obsession is a long and distant memory.

I have been diagnosed with ocd since the age of 16.
Currently, I have developed this obsession with washing my hands and cleaning things -_-
But this doesn't even compare to how I was about 5 years ago.
Back then, I would perform these "rituals" whenever I felt anxious. I mistakenly thought
that everyone and anyone had harmful intensions. Hearing their voice and footsteps would
make me anxious and having them brush-up against me would be enough for me to get a
panic attack.

I have an issue with lurking. I can't tolerate when a thread has gone unread. I must read everything. Books, anything that falls into my hands must be read or I can't sleep.

And then of course, is my OCD need for physical contact. Sometimes I have been known to get into really bad bouts over not being able to hug as much as I'd like in a day.

Some are ocd some are just weird urges I cant control.. and they're a bit weird been debating on whether i should post here or not because i only talk about it with my sister but no one here knows me so I'm facing it grr *war face*

I have to change the fingernail polish every night or leave them plain(which i cant stand) so naturally i keep them clean and not too short.
I can't leave the volume on a tv, radio, anything on an odd number
I have issues with left(as in turning left). i don't know why but somehow to me it relates to odd numbers which i hate.
chunky junk in my food. like yogurt with pieces of fruit or orange juice with pulp. it kills me id rather starve which is crazy i know.
i have a little issues with math too because of odd numbers but it doesn't effect my schooling.
germ-x is also a necessity in my life out in public but doesn't bother me as much as the others

If it's any consolation, while being a dreadful disorder, its prevalence is about 0, 5 – 1%, and there is a certain degree of heritage in schizophrenia. BTW, the most common auditory hallucination is hearing voices, though.

That must have been a terrible time in your life, checking sounds the way you describe it.

I can relate.

Besides the food issues I’ve already mentioned, I have some degree of the checker and the washer parts of OCD, but they are mild and don’t control my life. I had some problems in my teens (ca 16 - 18) where they were a bit controlling for a while but somehow I overcome them. Had I been sent to a shrink at that time, I might have been dx'ed with OCD.
At the worst they were pretty bad, though. At 16 when I was home alone, I could check and double check if the door was locked, but then I became uncertain if I had really checked it or just thought I had checked it, but doing it on autopilot, not noticing if it was. I'm not gonna tell you how long it took me to get to bed! Nor am I gonna tell you how many tubes I missed when running up and down the stairs, checking if the door was really locked when being the last to leave the apartment.

Thank heavens that's in the past.

Thanks for your feedback Skilpadde!

I'm wishing I put a nickel in a jar for every action I took to appease my OCD.
That would be a 40' container of FU money right there...

I have to do everything equally, It's annoying when playing games.
If i look left I have to look right.

I also stomp my right foot than left foot 4 times than look all around.
This ones more annoying I get paranoid if i dont do it.

^Which reminds me of a game I played as a kid. I always stepped on the cracks in the pavement, but I had to do it just right.

I had to step on all the cracks and I would take longer or shorter steps as needed to hit them.
Also it was important that my left and wright foot hit the same number of cracks. If my left foot hit a broad crack, then my right foot had to step on two narrow ones. But things weren't really evened out before I had done the opposite (a broad for right foot, two small for left foot). It was of great importance that there was balance. If for instance my left foot hit a broad one, then I imagined the left foot feeling heavier, dragging along after me and it wasn't truly even before I had done as described above.

Wow, so many problems with food

l like to pick my food apart when l eat it. Take pizza for an example. l'll eat the meat topping first, then the veggies, then the cheese, then l go for the dough. l save the crust for last since it's my favourite.

l also have to wash my hands whenever l can. lf i don't, l can literally feel the dirt and germs on my skin multiplying.