scootz
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| posted on 28/5/10 at 09:34 PM |
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OCD...
Anyone suffer from this in it's chronic form?
I've had it since childhood (looking back, I'm surprised I made adulthood!).
Anyway... why ask the question on LCB! I'll tell you why... because it effects every bloody waking-second of my life and that includes the time
I spend in my garage! 
Ultimately, I've had enough of that kick-in-the-teeth moment that comes with the dawning of realisation that I cannot achieve the (utterly
unrealistic) standards that I set.
But all is not lost... I appear to have had an epiphany!
I'M GOING TO FLOG EVERYTHING IN MY GARAGE... clear it out of all spare parts, so there is no temptation to 'try-this' or
'attempt-that'!
Once it's all gone, then I'm going to count all my pennies and see what factory-finished car I can buy!
How does that sound for a plan? Can you imagine... Scootz with a finished car regaling you with Posts of summer roadcraft, trackday fun, near-misses
and run-ins with the BiB instead of his usual 'For Sale' efforts! 
But what to buy - must come with a factory-build option??? Sylva J15 with a JDM Type-R engine is the favourite right now!
It's Evolution Baby!
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daviep
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| posted on 28/5/10 at 09:37 PM |
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First dibs on anything shiny please.
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iscmatt
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| posted on 28/5/10 at 09:42 PM |
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How long have you been building??!
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McLannahan
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| posted on 28/5/10 at 09:46 PM |
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Scott - It'll never happen! I'm never ever happy with my cars, what ever I've got I always fancy something else and I feel
you're the same!
I'm thinking just the same myself now. Sell the Passat, MX5 and KC and buy just the one car....But within minutes I think I'd be bored!
You seem to buy something new each week so I think you've got "car-boredness" more than I have!
Michael
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zilspeed
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| posted on 28/5/10 at 09:48 PM |
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Come on now Scootz.
You should know that to a true compulsive obsessive, it's not OCD, it's actually CDO.
Well to me it is anyway...
Because that's alphabetical order.
No, not joking.
Can we discuss bipolar at any point ?
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scootz
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| posted on 28/5/10 at 09:58 PM |
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Sure... fire away!
It's Evolution Baby!
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omega0684
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 06:42 AM |
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i could mention on member on here with a major OCD but i wonder if he'll speak up for himself
I love Pinto's, even if i did get mine from P&O!
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eznfrank
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 07:01 AM |
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I have massive number related OCD issues for some reason usually based around 3's or 8's, my mother is the same she works out the value of
number plates based on adding the numbers and value of letters a= 1, b=2 etc.
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smart51
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 07:05 AM |
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The good thing with OCD is that you can always find your tools, neatly arranged in the right place. You're one up on me already!
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Tipster69
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 07:28 AM |
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Hi Scootz, I know where you are coming from.
Whatever my "current thing" is, becomes an absolute obsession for me. It has always been like this for as long as I can recall.
I flit from hobby to hobby but whatever the current one is, takes over my life. It's all consuming.
In my young teens I taught myself to code in assembly language. I would literally from morning till night, shut myself in my room writing computer
programs. This went on for years. Then I moved onto something else and the programming was finished.
When I'm into something, I need to know EVERYTHING about it (until something else comes along).
It's a right royal pain in arse, has I have no bloody control over it once it gets a grip.
I don't know if I'll ever get a car built or how far I will get with it. But until "something else" comes along, I have to go
with it. There is just no way out for me.
[Edited on 29/5/10 by Tipster69]
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bob tatt
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 07:36 AM |
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I have massive number related OCD issues for some reason usually based around 3's or 8's, my mother is the same she works out the value of
number plates based on adding the numbers and value of letters a= 1, b=2 etc.
oh my god ive done that since a kid still do it now when im bored on the m way does this mean i have undiagnosed ocd then ?
might sign my self off from work on incapacity like half the rest of the country seems to be doing at the moment, oh wait thats right i remember now
im self enployed so i have no rights what so ever.
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bigpig
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 08:05 AM |
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Yep, I expect perfection in everything I do, and generally think its sh!te if its not. My end result is that I swing each week between selling up,
just shoving it in the garage and hoping it goes away, spending an entire day just on one bolt or something equally as daft.
What building my Indy has taught me is that "enough to do the job and last" is good enough in most cases.
It don't help that SWMBO has a tendency to do the "enough to do the job" in round the house DIY and I want the repair to last for
years. Unblocking a sink turned into a right debacle ending up with a ubend full of a solidified crystalline lump leading brand sink and drain cleaner
and me plumbing in a new u bend.
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mads
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 08:31 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by omega0684
i could mention on member on here with a major OCD but i wonder if he'll speak up for himself
who's that Alex?!
We gain knowledge faster than we do wisdom!
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, thoroughly used, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming... "f*ck, what a trip!"
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scootz
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 09:24 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by bob tatt
oh my god ive done that since a kid still do it now when im bored on the m way does this mean i have undiagnosed ocd then ?
might sign my self off from work on incapacity like half the rest of the country seems to be doing at the moment, oh wait thats right i remember now
im self enployed so i have no rights what so ever.
Don't worry - you're not special (like me!). You don't have Chronic OCD - just a quirk... we all have them!
I got real pee'd off a couple of years ago when it seemed that having OCD was almost de riguer. Celebs galore were coming out in the
press with their oh-so-zany personal 'quirk' stories whilst playing the 'poor-me' OCD sympathy card. Then folk who'd
never heard about it or knew the ins-and-outs would discuss it out of it's proper context... 'eek, I like the cups in my cupboard to be
lined up a certain way... I must have OCD'. No you don't... you just like a neat cupboard!
If one of these attention seekers had Chronic OCD, then they'd soon know all about it and wouldn't want others (particularly the
press) to be aware... not that it's a competition, but the World Health Organisation ranks Chronic OCD as the tenth most disabling illness of
any kind, in terms of lost earnings and diminished quality of life.
It's Evolution Baby!
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bob tatt
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 12:49 PM |
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so i can stop worrying then scootz, thats a weight off my mind.
Im off to line all my rivets out and give them a polish now.
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scootz
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 01:15 PM |
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Just glad I could help... I'm that kind of guy!
It's Evolution Baby!
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jeffw
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 03:36 PM |
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quote:
But what to buy - must come with a factory-build option??? Sylva J15 with a JDM Type-R engine is the favourite right now!
Best idea you've had in a long time. Jeremy would make you a awesome car.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 29/5/10 at 03:51 PM |
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I can't wear odd socks... so to combat this I usually buy socks in about 30 pairs and when one wears out I'll throw it away until I get
down to a single one. Never regarded it as OCD in the same way it's not OCD to not want to wear odd shoes.
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