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Which disorder would win? Would they cancel each other other?
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They would never cancel each other out. I assume that the OCD would clean up the messes, but be unable to actually remove and materials from the home. Either that or like, and explosion.
I guess you’d have tons and tons of stuff, but it would be neatly organized.
their child would be Howie Mandel.
Seriously? OCD doesn’t mean they need clean or that they do not like clutter, that’s just what hollywood likes to show. In reality having this disorder just means they’ve certain compulsions. That compulsion could be closing a door 3 times as you go out or something.
I have OCD and my room’s just as messy as any other young adults, most of the time it does not even register. My main compulsion is that I circle and everything has to be done in a certain order, most noticiably with eating and I want to walk in a certain pattern, but there’s smaller things that I get hung up on too like with projects needing to be perfect.
But the pile of dirty clothes on my bedroom floor? So long as they are out of my way when I’m circling, I do not care what they look like.
Many hoarders have ocd. Obsessive compulsive behaviors… not necessarily cleaning.
Now if you mean that you have an obsessive cleaner and a hoarder then yea, you would probably have a problem.
Having OCD means you’re a creature of habit. That habit could be collecting things.
It doesn’t mean you need things clean.
Well, in a cartoony fashion then the OCD person would win. Think about it, they could burn the house down, smash things with a baseball bat (then sweep it up)… etc. It is a lot harder however, to conjure things up from thin air for the hoarder.
But in a real sense, many people with OCD can have a problem with hoarding, too. I have a sense of OCD, and my worries usually consist of childish things.
If I think a bad thought, I have to touch wood and wish for that to never happen for another certain billion years, each time more billions than before.
Or if I walk out the door with a bad thought, I have to walk back through and say a good one.
Or if I do not brush my hair through to a number which is a multiple of 4 and not six, I’ll die.
Or if I do not turn the spoon in my tea twenty 3 times, all my loved ones will die.
Or if I choose a packet of food at the supermarket that is at the front, then I will catch HIV.
It is awful, but my room is still filled with crap.
Having OCD doesn’t mean the you are necessarily a neat freak. People who are diagnosed with OCD are people who have rituals and routines that they’ve to follow in order to alleviate stress. This stress stems from an unreal idea that they harbor, that if they deviate from a routine at all something bad will happen and this consequentially just causes more stress.
So the only conflict I could see arising from a hoarder and someone with OCD living together is that if the person with OCD has the compulsion to fix the symmetry of everything (neat freak).
It would depend how neat the Hoarder was, and the nature of the OCD sufferer’s disorder. Some people with OCD are Hoarders because hoarding things is a compulsion, also called a ritual. If the person becomes obsessed with hoarding, rather than just collecting things (as a hobby for example) or knowing when to stop having things, then it becomes a symptom of OCD. You can be a shopaholic with OCD if it’s a ritual for you to shop. Any habit that you must obsessively do or something bad will happen can count as a ritual.
We’ll take the hypothetical Hollywood neat freak OCD person and Hoarder. If the Hoarder were hoarding trash or had stuff messily stacked, the OCD person might panic. If everything were neatly stacked, the OCD person might have no problem, or might panic.
On the OCD person, OCD just means you have an obsessive need to do certain rituals – my mom has it in addition to Generalized Anxiety Disorder; she used to have to check the lock on the back door fifteen times before she could sleep, and she used to wash her hands excessively, particularly when she was already anxious. She is learned how to cope with it and was on medicine for awhile, and she is alright now, but her OCD does sometimes resurface when she is really stressed out.
I would assume that the OCD person either wouldn’t mind as long as it wasn’t interfering with their rituals, although if 1 of their rituals was making everything neat and orderly, or if they also had a phobia of germs or clutter, they wouldn’t be able to tolerate it. Some OCD rituals and Hoarding are pretty much incompatible with each other, but not all. You might as well ask what someone with claustrophobia would do if they were stuck living with a Hoarder.