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Re: 7's and Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder
Re: 7's and Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder
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Posted by Geenius at Wrok on September 18, 1998 at 10:30:59:
In Reply to: Re: 7's and Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder posted by Derf on September 18, 1998 at 06:19:36:
: According to Palmer, Fours scored the highest average on the obsessive/compulsive scale. That kind of surprises me, actually, because it seems to me that Ones
would be most prone to OCD. ("Did it wrong, gotta do it again.") I know
I have a very mild, non-function-impairing case of what might be related
to OCD: I have an intense need (maybe not a need, but more than a desire
-- an urge?) for symmetry. For example, sitting in my office now, if I
look up and to the right, I can see the roof of the National Guard armory
through a four-paned window. The roof fills the lower two panes, is not
visible through the upper left pane, and cuts through the upper right
pane at an angle. If I happen to look that way, I can't look away until
I've adjusted my angle of vision so that the roof line goes exactly into
the corner of the upper right pane. Also, I can't look at a picture that's
hanging crooked without being overwhelmed by the urge to straighten it.
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