Browsing Topic Best Ocd Quotes

OCD, we discovered is a lot of different things-it’s not just washing your hands, it’s whatever you’re obsessed with. It can be just the way you hold a pen, and you always have to have it a certain way or you have to eat your food, it depends. It’s something that, as a character I thought was really interesting because sometimes it’s used in a film where it is OCD and sometimes it’s strategic.

I’m too measured and controlling – about everything. That’s why I take Lexapro. It’s for OCD. I don’t feel like I’m struggling with it. I think OCD is a part of me that protects me. It’s also the part of me that I use in my job, in a positive way.

Well, we studied a lot of books and things like that. Denzel has a personal experience with it, not himself, that’s his business-I won’t get into that, but he knows a lot about it as well. So, we took some real life experiences that we both-I’ve been told that I have OCD.

I could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don’t act clinically OCD. I’m not going to check things so many times I have to take drugs for it. But the kind of complicated and painstaking work I have to do to make my drawings, it just kind of harnesses that compulsive energy in a constructive way.

Cats … are like four-legged poster children for OCD.

I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I’m cured. It’s a very inconsistent personality trait.

I’m OCD beyond comparison.

Our attention span is shot. We’ve all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don’t have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD – Too Busy Disorder.

Perfection I’ve lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you’d think I have OCD. But it’s only habit and not obsession that keeps it all orderly. Of course, I don’t want to give the impression that it’s all up to me.

It happens that there are a lot of people who are very talented who also happen to have a mental disorder. A lot of the mental disorders are initially things that are adaptive. Like even OCD, it’s good to sort of have structure and have certain rituals but when it gets to be extreme then it becomes problematic.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

I sometimes think that I can’t do the bigger thing that [Zadie Smith] do so beautifully, as in Swing Time, with so much world in it and so much rapturous paint thrown around. I don’t think it would be possible to write a book on that scale with as much OCD as I have.

I do not have OCD OCD OCD.

My life is routine-obsessed. I’m OCD, and if I’m not at home, I always get up early and exercise. I don’t crash and burn at night, not these days, so early-ish to bed. At home, I have three small boys who bring me down to earth with school runs and endless meals.

Oh, I’m crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I’ve got them all, but most of all, I’m crazy about you.

The level at which my OCD enters my writing process isn’t that I slap the keyboard – it’s more along the lines of a compulsive need to swap syllables around, rework words and sentences – I revise for the pleasure and satisfaction of it, rather than out of a sense of duty.

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you’re labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

I have OCD mixed with ADD, you try living with that. Its complicated.

People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a store to buy a sweater, find four that you like and the odds are pretty good you’ll stare and stare… and buy nothing at all.

My doctor said I had OCD. I couldn’t believe it. I had to call him nine times to make sure.

All behavioral or mood disorders – including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction – have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.

People have this impression that I’m a little kooky, but I’m actually very OCD.

I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.

I lived with a guy who had OCD and I used to put Rice Krispies in his slippers before I went out. He went mental, but not before he counted them all.

I am responsible for what happened to me but if I was to stay there it is kind of a constant reminder and it is very easy…. You know the new song is called Mental…. I am not trying to hide from people that I have OCD, and I don’t think that I am a completely normal person.

The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.

Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There’s a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it.

I used to kiss things all the time. I would have to kiss everything, just about everything. The headboard on my bed, the steering wheel in my car. I think it was an OCD thing.