I've had this cut (blurry in the pic) on the side of my nose for past 6 or so days.
What's it from? - A wash cloth.
How? - ... I have OCD, one of my big habits associated with my OCD is standing in front of the mirror for hours at a time separating, plucking, and reshaping my eye lashes using my fingers, tweezers, and damp washcloths. Almost every morning I wipe my eye lids with a damp wash cloth; starting from the inner corners of my eyes and wiping out, followed by combing my lashes with the wash cloth as one would with a mascara brush - only I tend to do it for 30 mins to 2 hours. Thus, I sometimes give myself wash cloth burns.
I do it because I can't stand the feeling of my lashes criss-crossing over and dipping in wrong directions, like into my eye. But besides that, it's obvious that I have a problem. Even just seeing them uneven bothers me and give me the twitches. Things being imperfect, uneven, and uncomfortable is what bothers me the most. I have this problem day and night with my clothes - the most horrible endeavor of them all.
Another reoccurring issue, similar to the one with my eye lashes is...*sigh* most embarrassing of all, tugging on my vaginal lips in attempts to make them line up evenly... weird and sad, but true. I can spend an hour or so on the toilet or just squating and tugging on them trying to make it feel comfortable and look right down there before I can put my panties back on and move on with my day. Sometimes, I tug so hard that they get sore and tare. This happened the other week, hurt for a good long while.
All this crap can make for really awkward situations. Now that you know a little about my oddities maybe you want to follow me on my OCD adventures. Learn some about it, help me out, share your stories, or just laugh...whatever.
Here's to the start of something I never thought I'd do! :D
Congratulations on the start of your blog! I think everyone with OCD has habits that others would find weird, but others with OCD can understand. You are doing a good service to those with OCD. And you are helping to educate those without OCD who don't know much about the disorder.
ReplyDeleteThank you. :) I'm finding that it feels really good to be able to talk to others with sever OCD, even if their habits are nothing like mine. I figured that starting this blog would be relieving and help me in some ways, but I wasn't expecting to feel so good about it. :)
DeleteThanks for the support.