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    Does anybody have a Ritual that they do often enough as to border on ( Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder ) 

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    Hand washing , and I avoid touching handles , and I always carry wet wipes to wipe handles and anything I have to use that someone  else has used before, I drink out of cups and glasses  on the opposite  side to normal.. My wife gets really annoyed, especially  when she is preparing  food and I say have you washed your hands. I'm  trying  to not be like it , but it's  very difficult  to break the habit.  

    ROMOS

    Adrian Monk springs to mind.
    jhharlan

    But how do you develop immunities to common germs? The "three second rule" applies to me.......

    Like hand washing? No but I do hold my breath going under any bridge while touching the car's roof. One gains a wish doing this.....

    hector5559

    D0you hold the sterring weel while doing this?????

    I am a little bit OCD but I don't have any rituals as such.


    I just like to do things in the correct order.


    Like they say  "the job's not finished 'til the paperwork's done."

    When I was a teenager I may have been OCD when it came to washing my feet and hands.  I couldn't walk outside while barefooted because I hated the way sand, grass, and cement, especially smooth cement, felt under my feet.  I washed my feet and hands as soon as I walked inside the house and each time I had to leave my bedroom to go to another room inside the house.   I did eventually "wash my hands" of my OCD/habit,  but I still do not like being barefooted.

    jhharlan

    Oh, ma! One is hard pressed to find me in shoes, even in winter......


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