am i crazy???

[leeisgettingclean]

So whats something strange you do that might make you crazy???

Mine is prob, when i am waiting for something...like a light to change, waiting at drive thru, waiting for a show to come on, I count to a hundred over and over untill whatever I am waiting on happens....so does that make me crazy?

[mtgoat911]

i am a counter too, thats not crazy
whats crazy is spending time researching an answer to a post here and then having content dissapear, did the post go though? was i really on my lap top? or was it all just a dream?

[leeisgettingclean]

lol, post have a way of doing that...poof, never to be seen again!

[ginsa]

I keep re-running things from the past in my head that are better forgotten! MIGHT make me crazy? Lol....too late, I think I'm already there....

[leeisgettingclean]

I work in a nursing home with 90-100 year old people with aztimers(mispelled but you get the point), so I know that if I am not crazy yet I will be.

[narla]

I have a thing where everything has to be symetrical,I only use even numbers like with volumes they have to be on 2 or 4 6 8 my kids realised this and used to turn my car CD player to odd numbers as soon as I heard it I knew It was an odd number and have to change it back,Even at the gym when using the machines  I can't stop until it's an even No:and if I go 1 second past I have to keep going till It's even again.

      Crazy,Who Knows?  

[leeisgettingclean]

no i do not think thats crazy, I actually have heard others say the same thing....a lil strange maybe but crazy prob not! : )

[kiylen]

Don't feel crazy.  I have this thing where I count my steps all the time.  Unconciously I even do it.  I can even be walking around in the house and catch myself doing it.  I think I have a really mild form of OCD.  I have a few other eccentricities but nothing major like you see some of the people on tv that wash their hands all the time, relock doors like a hundred times, that kind of stuff.  We all have some kind of little "quirks"!

[Totsie59]

OMG..I am a counter too...I count **** all the time...My kids say I have OCD...

I check and recheck things.
I know this sounds crazy...but I have 4 black walnuts trees...and I have to pick the walnuts up(if it aint raining) everyday...and I count while I am picking them up...

I also count my steps...down the hall, out to shed...I feel crazy....

I am also a clean freak....I have to have EVERYTHING in the right place...all of the time..
I cant stand to have leafs in my yard....I have to get them up...LOL  And I mow when my grass really dont need mowing...My clean thing goes on and on....house, yard, truck....etc...

Glad I am not alone...

[Brokenbutglued]

LOL this thread made me giggle! I love reading about other peoples OCD :D, I have a new one lately. I can NOT go to sleep unless I know my kids' bedroom window is closed and locked. Sometimes even after I've checked it and even gone to bed I'll go back and recheck it.

Totsie I'm with ya on the leaves too!!! We don't have all that many in the yard yet but it's already driving me insane when I see them! I seem to go on cleaning binges though..I'll go through the normal daily stuff and then all of a sudden it'll hit me and I have to clean everything. I end up with raw feeling hands from the chemicals because I didn't want to stop long enough to put gloves lol. You're not alone :)

[ally7909]

That is sooo funny, I do the same exact thing, counting!  When I am trying to sleep I count backwards, when I am at a light I count how long it takes or ill count how long the "walk/dont walk" signs go for.  I have never told anyone that.  lol

[inspiring]

I don't worry about being CRAZY, as there are many different explanations of what is crazy. Some of my friends say I am crazy because of my lifestyle, but I am certainly not being carted off to an insane asylum - I think we all have various degrees of unnormal behaviours, like some people have to wash and wash their hands and count everything - the bottom line is - 'does the behavior control you to be a negative? If it hurts rather than helps then you can try to alter the behavior. NORMAL can be a tough definition as we are all so different, normal must be judged by the individual, unless the little men with white coats are chasing you

[theeagle]

I would imagine that someone accusing me of  being sane would be last straw!  

[leeisgettingclean]

lol yeah i feel you on that : )

[NorcoQueenoftheUniverse]

Lee you are SOOOO FUNNY... cuz I'm a COUNTER too!  I count the steps when I'm out walking...and that adds up to ALOT of counting since I'm out walking for 3 miles.. I count the steps my horse is taking.. whether it be at a Walk.. Trot.. or Canter...
(I wonder if it has anything to do with my history... (i.e. drug counting and/or how many DAYS I've been CLEAN)
Oh my gosh... will I EVER quit COUNTING?!!?  
I think I'm just OCD...

Love you,
NorcoQueen

[NorcoQueenoftheUniverse]

Now I'm starting to worry that I've FRIED my neuro transmitters so much that they are trying to over compensate by my COUNTING....
as their seems to be ALOT of recoverying people out there that like to COUNT... what's up with that?!  1    2    3    4   5    6  
oH... I forgot.. I gotta go   and     COUNT my letters that I just wrote...

tee hee hee...
Hey my theory is that as long as I'm NOT counting HOW MANY PILLS I have LEFT... I'm DOING GOOD!

[Holliee]

I count to and didn't realize how much I count till i read this post and maybe has something to do with pill counting since don't do that no more I find others to count. I remember I use to count my pills like 15 times a day like they were going to grow lol.

Also at night when I set my alarm clock I check it like 4 times make sure right then I also set my cell phone alarm and check that 4 times. Then right before I go sleep I check alarms again.

I also have have fan on no matter how cold it is.

I am also a list maker for everything
Now am I crazy????

[leeisgettingclean]

i also check my alarm a million times, i even worry about my cat knocking it off table and it coming unplugged, I know thats crazy but its just how i am.

[LateAugust]

I count,  but it is the letters in words.....   or a title,  or in a sentence,  when  I am bored with a conversation....   yep  pretty sure that is beyond weird....  I never count words,  only  letters   and will do that with phrases or sentences.......  names.....    gosh  I know  I am not normal :)    not sure that I ever wanted to be tho.....   thanks for the reminder!!   :)

[narla]

I have my air conditioner on at all times set at 16c even in winter,then I get under lots of blankets.As well as wanting everything symmetrical I also want them to be a mirror image.And like everyone else I'm a counter,I count the tiles at the shopping center and I have to walk on every 2nd tile,I also count all the stairs when I'm going up or down.

[leeisgettingclean]

i also count stairs when going up or down lol, so now you all make me wonder are addicts all counters or is everyonne a counter??

[NorcoQueenoftheUniverse]

What in the WORLD in WRONG with us?!?!  
I LOVE all of these COUNTING comments....

Makes me NOT feel like I've LOST MY MIND,,,, counting,,,,

[Holliee]

Hey I also count stair going up down or like work when make coffee i have always have four packs coffee out not 3 not 5 but 4!!!!

[10356]

This had made me laugh.. I also count by 3s forward and backwards count on my fingers names like last august but the letters in them until they end up evenly..or how many parking spaces are between cars the list goes on :)) Glad I'm not alone I never wanted to ask my hubby if he does this as he thinks I'm strange enough lol lesa

[ginsa]

I often count syllables when I write anything. Maybe it's the poet in me..lol. But seriously, I think counting is a search for order in a near chaotic world by people that  appreciate order.

[leeisgettingclean]

So i was talking to a friend earlier today, and he says counting is prob related to panic and anxiety disorders, and well does'nt that make some kind of since now that i see that so many addicts who most of witch suffer from some form of these two disorders are counters?

[theyearofthedoer1]

So do you count outloud or in your head

[theyearofthedoer1]

Just curious how do we determine or translate crazy or sane. the key to life is balance from I here from many "theorists' on life. So shouldn't we all be a little of both

[leeisgettingclean]

I count in my head. I honestly think "crazy" is just what you precieve, Depending on how you were raised, by who you were raised by, and things you have seen//been part of, the word crazy prob means 1,000,000,000 diff things depending who you  ask

[Totsie59]

I have grandson counting now...LOL I also count powerline poles while on the road (while hubby is driving)

[narla]

I also count the letters in paragraphs to to see which letters are used most or least,I'm starting to feel like The Count-on Sesame Street,because I love to count I will count everything!

[Holliee]

hey i do that to count the power line poles ...lol need help don;t we.

[Totsie59]

I am sooo glad to learn that I am not the only counter.LOL  When traveling...I count my miles from one town to another...watching the odometer the whole time....

[jstntime]

Ok my 2 cents on this one.

Yup, I'm a counter too.  Thought I was the ONLY one in the world though that counted Syllables.  I guess there's 2 of us!!!!

I was way worse as a youth.  I remember one time I was counting my steps (which I only rarely do now----yes you can be cured ha ha--just replace it with counting syllables ha ha) and someone I knew said Hi to me.  I looked up at them and said........18!!!!!! ha ha ha

Thanks for the laugh you guys,

bob