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Post by alittlebirdie on Jul 16, 2021 10:24:24 GMT
I'm enjoying the series Monk. I guess it's about 10 years old, but I'm watching it for the first time. I hate to admit it, but I see myself sometimes Straightening things (not to his extend of other peoples stuff. lol) and some of the germ stuff. (well we were all forced into becoming germaphobe) How about you? Any confessions of OCD?
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jul 16, 2021 10:42:30 GMT
No i don`t
Monk ended 12 years ago.
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Post by theravenking on Jul 16, 2021 14:20:30 GMT
My OCD was really bad when I was a teenager. I had the typical symptoms: things like opening/closing a door three or four times, checking repeatedly whether I had switched off the stove when leaving the house, touching a hot kettle although I knew it was going to burn me, always putting my left shoe on first, often counting things like the steps on a staircase or the letters of words I saw on signs. I also hated it when any furniture or stuff in my room got moved, I immediately had to put it back the way it was before. But back then I didn't know other people had these issues too, I thought it was just me and that I was somehow crazy. As Good As It Gets was the first movie I recall dealing with OCD and it was very helpful for me. Jack Nicholson's character in that movie became one of my heroes. And then later Monk came out and OCD almost became this common, accepted disorder. For someone not affected by it, it can seem this harmless, comical thing, but it can become a serious issue. Weirdly or thankfully most of my weird quirks have entirely disappeared over time. I'm not saying I've become a normal person or anything that boring, but today if you just looked at me in passing you wouldn't notice that I'm a bit mad.
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 17, 2021 1:11:02 GMT
I have severe OCD, but not the type so much where I have to do certain things. I have that, but anywhere neat the extent that Monk does.
I don't need to clean stuff all the time for example, but I do have to have things facing a certain direction and stuff like that.
My OCD is so bizarre it is hard to even explain in a coherent way.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jul 20, 2021 19:11:41 GMT
Not really - but for a while after binge-watching the entire show over the course of a few months I found myself touching light poles as I passed them, like Monk did.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 20, 2021 22:37:01 GMT
I have OCD. I did watch As Good As It Gets because of the character description--I can't remember if I related to it or not--I have been curious about Monk since I heard about it. I saw a list of his phobias and obsessions (i.e. bees in a blender etc). My OCD used to be hand washing, doorknob stuff, counting rituals..I never understood how much it affects the brain until it went away for a couple of weeks and I realized how it is like a layer of extra thought and it causes negativity and depression etc.
I have some rituals about how or when I watch a movie and I am sure that's OCD but it went down over the last 10 years. It was so bad 10 years ago that I had trouble forming sentences because my mind was exhausted from it.
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Post by mcclance on Jul 21, 2021 10:47:57 GMT
I finished watching Monk for the first time about a month ago. I am a little OC, more in certain areas than in others, and nowhere near the level of Monk. I'll group candies according to color. If I see door ajar or a drawer open, I get an urge to close it, but I won't make a big deal out of it. If I see one of my movies out of order, I'll put it where it's supposed to be according to my storage system. But I don't get an urge to clean everything, and I don't have anywhere near the phobias that Monk has.
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Post by alittlebirdie on Jul 29, 2021 3:43:23 GMT
Thanks for sharing your stories. Yes, I think OCD is all too common, and as someone said Monk has almost normalized it, or at least put it 'out there' in a kind of benign endearing way. It's nice to hear when a show or movie has helped someone not feel alone. Our favorite pastime becomes meaningful.
That's remarkable really
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Post by mstreepsucks on Aug 7, 2021 1:36:17 GMT
2 a degree, i do.
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Post by bluerisk on Aug 8, 2021 22:35:33 GMT
I lock my car always twice. It can easily happen that I go back to check if I've closed the apartment door properly.
Even at work I often check things twice. Me and my co-workers (they got at times their own quirks) called it "den inneren Monk befriedigen" (to quell the inner Monk).
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