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Being the sort of person that I am means that I have to be doing something all the time, I just cannot sit/lay still and do nothing. When I'm watching TV I'll be playing about with a card in one hand doing backpalming and whatnot, or I'll lay in bed tyring to do coin/ring rolls and alike.
Does anyone (i imagine several do) else have this kind of "problem"?
I say "problem" because some people think that I should be able to sit still and do nothing sometimes, but I think that at least I'm using all my time productivly to learn new things.
...Or maybe I'm just a terrible fidget!
I'm currently blaming The Art Of Card Manipulation for telling me i should be doing things like this

I'm the sort of person who can't sit still. I have two or three things on the go at once all day every day. I can be working on an article, researching another, checking forums for new messages, answering email, checking rss feeds, playing with a deck, suddenly practicing random bits, anything!

The idea of simply lying on a beach somewhere fills me with dread.

I cant sit still either i feel like a zombie about to come to life at any minute. Im usually playing with my cards or checking the forums or trying to do something constructive at least. I mean lets face it were all going to be doing alot of nothing in about 100 years time so i think ive got to make the most of having the advantage of doing something while i can.

I am an OCD sufferer, and I can't relax. Even in bed, I am thinking about stuff. Drives me and the mrs crazy.

The only times I really 'relax' are when I have no computer, books, mobile phone or anything else that connects me with my distractions... but even then, I get very very narky because I get bored too easily!

I am also an avid hater of 'beach holidays' as I find just sitting there doing nowt drives me insane. I much prefer to be active, whether physically or mentally.

I don't think it's a problem as such, it's unfortunately a bi-product of having an imagination.

i thought i had some kind of OCD but apparently since i don't think people will die if i stop then I'm just really fidgetty. so the students say.
i think the only time i can properly relax is when i've had a few to drink, which has led to a little bit of an alcohol problem perhaps. gah!

Siege wrote:

I am an OCD sufferer, and I can't relax. Even in bed, I am thinking about stuff. Drives me and the mrs crazy.

I am exactly the same i suffer from OCD aswell and when i get into bed i have a certain routine that i have to do every night and this routine lasts about 20 mins it annoys me and my missuss moans at me every night to stop . Cant blame her really 20 mins is a long time. I have to go on pills every day and go to the hospital every few months it a pain in the butt to be honest.

I don't suffer from OCD, but I'm always palying with a deck of cards, be it watching TV, chatting with mates, using my PC ect.

I get bord so quickly and find it helps when i play about with a desk of cards.

lindz wrote:I have to go on pills every day and go to the hospital every few months it a pain in the butt to be honest.

Can I be very personal and ask what your medication is?

I don't think I have OCD but I have to be doing something with my hands
while I'm watching tv or whatever. The only time I'm not is when I'm sleeping which is hard to do because I find it hard to relax and shut myself off and when I'm playing video games cause my hands are full then.

Misanthropy wrote:I don't think I have OCD but I have to be doing something with my hands
while I'm watching tv or whatever. The only time I'm not is when I'm sleeping which is hard to do because I find it hard to relax and shut myself off and when I'm playing video games cause my hands are full then.

Thats crazy I'm exactly the same, have trouble sleeping and all, onyl get about 3hrs a night. I find sleeping a waste of time, which it rlly is when you think about it...

Tomo wrote:

lindz wrote:I have to go on pills every day and go to the hospital every few months it a pain in the butt to be honest.

Can I be very personal and ask what your medication is?

Yes of course you can Tomo, There called escitalopram i dont know if thats the correct spelling but i think there like a depression tablet of some sort. I am meant to take them in the morning but i dont always take them because i always bring them back up and the doctor cant find any more suitable to me at the moment so i have to take them and suffer or not take them and suffer so it's a bit of a lose/lose situation at the moment.

lindz wrote:Yes of course you can Tomo, There called escitalopram i dont know if thats the correct spelling but i think there like a depression tablet of some sort. I am meant to take them in the morning but i dont always take them because i always bring them back up and the doctor cant find any more suitable to me at the moment so i have to take them and suffer or not take them and suffer so it's a bit of a lose/lose situation at the moment.

Good old Lexapro, eh? Do you do any form behaviour therapy, by the way?

what I've always found interesting is that some people who self medicate for OCD and who are especially troubled by intrusive thoughts and false urges seem to find temporary relief from symptoms from common bathtub speed. Though it's clearly not a realistic therapy, it's interesting in that some ADHD medications have a similar chemical structure to amphetamines.

Tomo wrote:

lindz wrote:Yes of course you can Tomo, There called escitalopram i dont know if thats the correct spelling but i think there like a depression tablet of some sort. I am meant to take them in the morning but i dont always take them because i always bring them back up and the doctor cant find any more suitable to me at the moment so i have to take them and suffer or not take them and suffer so it's a bit of a lose/lose situation at the moment.

Good old Lexapro, eh? Do you do any form behaviour therapy, by the way?

what I've always found interesting is that some people who self medicate for OCD and who are especially troubled by intrusive thoughts and false urges seem to find temporary relief from symptoms from common bathtub speed. Though it's clearly not a realistic therapy, it's interesting in that some ADHD medications have a similar chemical structure to amphetamines.

Sorry Tomo bit confused by all these medical terms im not very bright. First thing i got stuck on is Lexparo i assume it's some kind of ingrediant within the tablet and second thing was bathtub speed this is probally something simple but im not sure. Behaviour therapy they wouldnt let me do for some reason i wanted anger managment because although im not dangerous or violent i can be a bit quick off the mark sometimes but thats only usually with family which is silly i know. I do have a councellor who i see about every 6 months due to NHS demand which is not very helpful because it's too far apart and you only get about an hour per session so that doesent help much. Do you have a lot of knowledge on these sort of subjects then Tomo or just interested?

Sorry Tomo bit confused by all these medical terms im not very bright. First thing i got stuck on is Lexparo i assume it's some kind of ingrediant within the tablet and second thing was bathtub speed this is probally something simple but im not sure. Behaviour therapy they wouldnt let me do for some reason i wanted anger managment because although im not dangerous or violent i can be a bit quick off the mark sometimes but thats only usually with family which is silly i know. I do have a councellor who i see about every 6 months due to NHS demand which is not very helpful because it's too far apart and you only get about an hour per session so that doesent help much. Do you have a lot of knowledge on these sort of subjects then Tomo or just interested?

The bathtube speed is the illega class B drug Speed, its a form of steriod which can be produced at home in bathtubs, funny that

Its basically a stimulant.

lindz wrote:Sorry Tomo bit confused by all these medical terms im not very bright. First thing i got stuck on is Lexparo i assume it's some kind of ingrediant within the tablet and second thing was bathtub speed this is probally something simple but im not sure. Behaviour therapy they wouldnt let me do for some reason i wanted anger managment because although im not dangerous or violent i can be a bit quick off the mark sometimes but thats only usually with family which is silly i know. I do have a councellor who i see about every 6 months due to NHS demand which is not very helpful because it's too far apart and you only get about an hour per session so that doesent help much. Do you have a lot of knowledge on these sort of subjects then Tomo or just interested?

Sorry about that. Lexapro is just another name for escitalopram.

Oh poo, here comes the self outing... I developed full blown OCD in 1973-1974 at the age of 7. The full intrusive thoughts, patterns, symmetry, compulsive-actions-or-the-world-will-end and urges thing. Horrible, especially living with parents who thought I was something to be ashamed of rather than getting me some bloody help! b******s. So, over time, I managed to figure out how to hide then control and mitigate it by the time I got to secondary school (which is why I've come to love psychology so much).

I have a group of friends I've known from primary school who know all this and have just treated me normally all along, which is fu**ing brilliant, frankly. A kid in my class got serious OCD at the end of the first year of secondary and everyone else made his life hell. I smacked a few people, if I remember correctly (don't like bullies, bound to say so). Over the summer holidays he got some help, though, and had it pretty much under control by the start of the second year. Imagine what I thought of my parents!

Anyhoo...

Today, if I didn't tell people I have it, they wouldn't know. No one would. I look and act entirely normally, because I am normal as far as I'm concerned. I'm a remarkably well adjusted and slightly popular person because of it, who people know they can talk to about their problems and who people like to be around and have at their parties to do strange psychological things to then.

Nowadays, my subconscious still loves to urgently tell me things like it's answering random questions, which can be inspirational, but other than that, it has left me with a great ability to collect trivia. When I was a kid, I used to think that I had to collect it to stop, er, "bad" things happening, which gives people who haven't got it some insight into the strange silliness of the possible range of symptoms!. My memory for remembering nonsense is phenomenal now and the best thing is that I can work a party of people I've seen a few times and just hot read them.

So there you go. Funny old world, isn't it?

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