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I have a really weird habit - is it OCD?

  • 16/10/2007 @ 14:50 SwimUpstream said:
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    Hi everyone!

    I have a really weird habit, and its one of those habits that you wonder if everyone has, or perhaps maybe its just you and you are a bit, well odd.  I have done it since I was really small. I would do something like hold my breath and say 'if i can hold my breath until i get to the end of the road then i will grow up to be a millionaire'... or, if I can take three paces the pavement before a car comes past then so and so will ask me to marry them..... or, if the lights turn red before i get to them then I wont get this promotion....

     does anyone else do this?? Please say you do! I am not generally an obsessive person about anything, its just a sort of game i play with myself... i hope someone else does too!

     

  • 17/10/2007 @ 19:27 Wolfie said:
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    isn't it odd! - I think we all do these sorts of games with ourselves sometimes don't we?  What I think is amazing is that we are essentially saying to ourselves that we have no control, that there is such a thing as fate.  Of course, as a supremely logical person, as my friends will attest to, I know there isn't such a thing as fate, but tiny part of me hopes there is - and so I play the game too. 

    This whole argument also forms the basis of religion - which is a topic that we probably don't want to address!

    Keep on betting with those traffic lights - but think to yourself - can really make a difference to the outcome?

  • 17/10/2007 @ 21:31 bill said:
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    i think we need to believe that things can happen if we wish hard enough and also that fate will just jump right in and make everything work. I started reading the horoscopes a few years ago - not the long ones - but mystic meg and stuff like that. i am quite hooked on them and feel that there is someone out there who has a handle on these things - happy to leave things to the stars. it is called hope.
  • 17/10/2007 @ 21:50 ChocolateCake said:
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    I don't think that's weird, I freak out if I see a magpie on its own and have to say, out loud, bye bye ms magpie, or else I get lots of bad luck, or I know it's going to be a bad day. Bill, I read another post of yours on drinking, it was really sad, are you okay now?

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