Sometimes dangerous, non-sexual urges

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Obsessive hand washing (the act itself is the compulsion; the obsessive thought of being contaminated led you there...), isn't necessary to have OCD; I’ve only had it for a short period of time and I’ve had OCD forever.

Constantly checking (using this as an example) under your bed to "reassure" yourself that something isn't there is no different to constant hand washing.

Why do you have to wear shoes to the toilet, why do you have to use a tissue to flush it (I use my big toe)...the toothpaste? Answer these to yourself...I'm quite sure that the "feeling" is similar compared to the monsters under your bed and throughout the house....

It's a fun land here....

E: If, for some reason you see a professional for your autism 'trum disorder in the future, get them to give you an OCD test if you want it, it's a tiny questionnaire that’ll confirm it.

O yeah...It's a fun land here....

A very fun land...

I am worried that if I where to work in a fast food place or restaurant with a deep fryer, that I would stick my arm in it! I don't know why, but it just looks so smooth and placid, I really want to do it!

I did work in such a restaurant, and I was just "mesmorized" by it. Of course, I am not that stupid, but I was really fighting a very very strong compulsion not to do it the whole time! This has been something with me for over 10 years now, it is just weird.

I confessed it to my sister, (who I strongly suspect has OCD, at times she would be delayed for hours (I mean HOURS) before going to bed for having to "check" the house. Check the door, unplug every appliance, then replug them and unplug them again to make sure it was done "the right way" repeatedly.) Anyway, I told her, and she burst out laughing, saying she has the same "problem" with deep fryers!

I used to have a compulsion to stick my finger into electrical sockets. I was "cured" of that after a few rather nasty "zings" when I could not control my urges.

I also have to flush public toilets with my foot. But common, that is not weird, they are NASTY!

I don't think I have OCD though.

I know exactly what you mean. My urges are usually about saying the worst, most embarrassing or hurtful thing i could say in a situation. I believe this is very Tourettes-ish. I've been like this all my life.

My self-harming behaviours are kind of like this OCD-ish too, particularly after alcohol.

There’s varying degrees of everything, when it’s bad enough they give you a label…I’d bet that most of the members on this site who’re on the autism ‘trum have some intrusive/unwanted thoughts that “stick”; there’s a big overlap with OCD/autism, or so my psychic said….

OCD is way cool to have.... But that's just mad me talking.

Can having things in a specific place be related to OCD?
Like putting my toothbrush in the same position all the time, putting things in the cupboard facing outwards, having to have things a certain distance from each other?

When I'm under a lot of stress I have thoughts like these and repetitive behavors (hate that word, I can't spell it) increase to abnormal levels. When I'm driving I think I'm going to drive into oncoming traffic or go off the road and into a tree (or actually want to drive into a tree) and I check my house more, locks, under things, behind things and get less sleep listening to every little noise in the house and thinking its an intruder. I check the fire alarm and smell for smoke, wonder if there might be a gas leak etc. . . When the stress passes and I don't feel that way anymore, I feel silly but at the time it was all very real. I also don't realize I'm under stress until it passes then I look back at it and see that I was majorly stressing out at that time.

Nice to know I'm not the only one who can't touch the toilet flusher thingy.

Yeah...usually if there's an underlying reason or "feeling" for doing it, i.e., you feel uneasy if it's not ordered how you like it, or you feel something bad is going to happen if you don't organize them in the way you deem suitable.

I experience this sometimes,when I'm particularly stressed.The occasional irrationally morbid fear and excessive monitoring of either a comforting thing/idea or a fearful one.I used to suffer from panic attacks and learned to recognize the irrationality of those thoughts when they appear,so even when they do appear they can't have too much power over me.On good days I can simply let them drift in and away again like clouds.They are just a co-morbid byproduct of my mind's other processes sometimes.They are rare for me though.

I get it worse when I'm stressed as well. Or nervous.

People with OCD do all the things you mention sopho-soph , the rituals are supposed to reduce anxiety , i'm not sure they do always its a mental thing but they are supposed to. I get the thoughts but I don't do rituals .
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Oh right, that explains a few things then, thanks.

I have thoughts like that. Sometimes like, what if I just yelled something out, or what if I swerved my car off the road? I don't get the urge to do it, but I do have thoughts like that. I think my dad told me once that it was normal though.

I used to check these things a lot when I was younger -- I guess I'm too preoccupied to worry about it now. I heard a noise last night that seemed to be coming from my kitchen, shortly after I arrived home late last night. I knew it was likely just the neighbors above me, because the ceiling creaks whenever they walk. Now, in my old days, I'd HAVE to go check my kitchen, just to be sure there wasn't someone hiding out in there. But instead, I just walked halfway there, where only half my kitchen was visible, said a brief prayer and called it good. I slept soundly.

Yeh, that's the annoying thing about it. I know there is no decapitated head in the cupboard, yet I still feel like I have to check it or I won't be able to stop thinking about it.

Wow! I feel like that from time to time. I just think about it just to see what it would be like. It ranges from a desire to poke women with my finger for standing too close to me on the train to move them away slowly, or standing at the edge of platforms/edges/roofs to look over and see if I remain still. I've no intention of any of the above, it justt settles in my mind sometimes.