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Posted by Angel Girl on January 12, 2005, at 22:54:43
I collect or have collected several different things. I'm wondering, does this mean I have OCD? I ask because sometimes I will have an obsession to adding to one or more of my collections and when the item arrives in the mail, it could sit unopened for quite some time.
AG
Posted by anastasia56 on January 12, 2005, at 23:24:42
In reply to Anyone here collect things? OCD?, posted by Angel Girl on January 12, 2005, at 22:54:43
no but my husband does collect baseball cards obsessively. i keep telling him the minute he drops dead those cards are headed straight to ebay.
anastasia
Posted by Fallen4MyT on January 13, 2005, at 1:02:25
In reply to Anyone here collect things? OCD?, posted by Angel Girl on January 12, 2005, at 22:54:43
If you collect and do not hoard then it is not OCD...I had a husband that hoarded things they ALL sat unused and in boxes and stuff he had to have this stuff and it was a never ending quest but not used or displayed ever. Now I DO collect carosel horses and Angel figurines...also watches my place is neat has room not ceiling to floor junk like the ex did...and I have curio cabinets and my watches I wear to match outfits and have in the boxes. What do you collect?
> I collect or have collected several different things. I'm wondering, does this mean I have OCD? I ask because sometimes I will have an obsession to adding to one or more of my collections and when the item arrives in the mail, it could sit unopened for quite some time.
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> AG
Posted by Angel Girl on January 13, 2005, at 9:33:29
In reply to Re: Anyone here collect things? OCD? » Angel Girl, posted by Fallen4MyT on January 13, 2005, at 1:02:25
If I collect to the point that my place looks cluttered and I have no more room for anything else, would that be considered OCD? I am not meaning that there is not room for me to live in my apt properly, but that there is no more room for proper storage of such items. Also, if you feel obsessed to continue buying items for your collection(s) and must hide the fact from your family would that be considered OCD?
My collections are:
Precious Moments figurines - stopped collecting years ago, for lack of display space.
bunnies (not the live, breathing kind, lol) - no more room for them either and I find them a real annoyance when it comes to dusting. I stopped collecting them myself but others still give them to me. They are in my bedroom.
chickens/rooster/chick type items - that is the theme of my kitchen.
celebrity memorabilia - having a very hard time curtailing this one.
Santas - very small collection at this point and only obviously displayed at Christmas (*IF* I can get into the Christmas spirit). Would desperately like to continue this collection.
live cats - jk, I only have 2 but would love to have more but if I got more my family would have me commited. lol!!!
CDs - I own probably more than 700. gasp!!! and now am at the point of obsessively downloading and burning CDs to make it cheaper. Storage is a MAJOR issue. How does one store that many CDs? Any idea???
I have a *bad* habit of buying items for my collections instead of items that I need, like clothes, etc. and if my family saw this post, I'd definitely be commited.
Also, I have ebay bookmarked and it is a major source for buying. That site is ADDICTIVE!!!
Now, is all of the above considered OCD? If so, what can I do about it? I am BP and my manic wild spending sprees have added *many* items to my collections. BTW, it's not that I *want* to stop, because I don't, it's that I feel I *should* stop. Having a very hard time with this issue. I have very little if any self-control. Bet y'all guessed that already eh!!!
How about y'all, what do you collect?
AG (hiding head in embarrassment)
> If you collect and do not hoard then it is not OCD...I had a husband that hoarded things they ALL sat unused and in boxes and stuff he had to have this stuff and it was a never ending quest but not used or displayed ever. Now I DO collect carosel horses and Angel figurines...also watches my place is neat has room not ceiling to floor junk like the ex did...and I have curio cabinets and my watches I wear to match outfits and have in the boxes. What do you collect?
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> > I collect or have collected several different things. I'm wondering, does this mean I have OCD? I ask because sometimes I will have an obsession to adding to one or more of my collections and when the item arrives in the mail, it could sit unopened for quite some time.
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Posted by smokeymadison on January 13, 2005, at 16:04:22
In reply to Re: Anyone here collect things? OCD?, posted by Angel Girl on January 13, 2005, at 9:33:29
i think that you would have to have other symptoms as well to have OCD. but i do have OCD and collect things compulsively. i primarily collect anything with blue roses--sculptures, pictures, etc. i also love anything geisha. i have a costume and several other things. see, for me, these things are symbols. the blue rose came from the play The Glass Menagerie. it is about the beauty and terribleness of life intertwined. the symbol of the white face comes from two places--Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen and the geisha. sort of a am i a virgin or a slut sort of thing. i used to have a big problem with that. but i still love my symbol of the white face as being both.
SM
Posted by Fallen4MyT on January 13, 2005, at 18:48:08
In reply to Re: Anyone here collect things? OCD?, posted by Angel Girl on January 13, 2005, at 9:33:29
To my understanding and I am no T.....it would be OCD or hoarding look hoarding up on google..they had a deal some time back on like dateline or some show on some dude that collected sooooo much stuff even broken that their places was stuffed he had to hide it and in the end given the choice between his wife or his hoarding he chose his stuff....depends on how pathological it is. HAHAHA you are cute I just had to tell you that...if you had live bunnies you could save time buying and looking for more that collection would grow hahahahaha....yes its ocd you said OBSESSION and your Compulasion is you HAVE to get them....I am again NOT a t
> If I collect to the point that my place looks cluttered and I have no more room for anything else, would that be considered OCD? I am not meaning that there is not room for me to live in my apt properly, but that there is no more room for proper storage of such items. Also, if you feel obsessed to continue buying items for your collection(s) and must hide the fact from your family would that be considered OCD?
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> My collections are:
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> Precious Moments figurines - stopped collecting years ago, for lack of display space.
>
> bunnies (not the live, breathing kind, lol) - no more room for them either and I find them a real annoyance when it comes to dusting. I stopped collecting them myself but others still give them to me. They are in my bedroom.
>
> chickens/rooster/chick type items - that is the theme of my kitchen.
>
> celebrity memorabilia - having a very hard time curtailing this one.
>
> Santas - very small collection at this point and only obviously displayed at Christmas (*IF* I can get into the Christmas spirit). Would desperately like to continue this collection.
>
> live cats - jk, I only have 2 but would love to have more but if I got more my family would have me commited. lol!!!
>
> CDs - I own probably more than 700. gasp!!! and now am at the point of obsessively downloading and burning CDs to make it cheaper. Storage is a MAJOR issue. How does one store that many CDs? Any idea???
>
> I have a *bad* habit of buying items for my collections instead of items that I need, like clothes, etc. and if my family saw this post, I'd definitely be commited.
>
> Also, I have ebay bookmarked and it is a major source for buying. That site is ADDICTIVE!!!
>
> Now, is all of the above considered OCD? If so, what can I do about it? I am BP and my manic wild spending sprees have added *many* items to my collections. BTW, it's not that I *want* to stop, because I don't, it's that I feel I *should* stop. Having a very hard time with this issue. I have very little if any self-control. Bet y'all guessed that already eh!!!
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> How about y'all, what do you collect?
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> AG (hiding head in embarrassment)
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> > If you collect and do not hoard then it is not OCD...I had a husband that hoarded things they ALL sat unused and in boxes and stuff he had to have this stuff and it was a never ending quest but not used or displayed ever. Now I DO collect carosel horses and Angel figurines...also watches my place is neat has room not ceiling to floor junk like the ex did...and I have curio cabinets and my watches I wear to match outfits and have in the boxes. What do you collect?
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> > > I collect or have collected several different things. I'm wondering, does this mean I have OCD? I ask because sometimes I will have an obsession to adding to one or more of my collections and when the item arrives in the mail, it could sit unopened for quite some time.
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Posted by Atticus on January 13, 2005, at 21:54:14
In reply to Anyone here collect things? OCD?, posted by Angel Girl on January 12, 2005, at 22:54:43
I do have a huge collection of Japanese "kaiju." The word, roughly translated, means "weird creatures." I really love the loopiness and campiness of Godzilla and have since I was a child (and I love the zaniness of Japanese pop culture anyway -- it's just so irrepressibly over the top). I went on a yearlong tear in 2003 on e-Bay buying tons of rare Japanese monster and robot models. One of them's even from 1962 -- eight years before I was born. Why this particular interest? No idea. One day it simply faded. Still fun to look at though. A briefer one was t-shirts of Japanese punk bands, whose style it is to use English language names, even if the grasp of the English is a bit shaky and leads to haiku-esque or absurdist band names like Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her (a female punk duo) and Pizza of Death. I don't think it's OCD. I think that it's just so easy to keep looking for similar things on the Internet, and the hunt is fun. My newest obsession: Japanese anime such as "Cowboy Bebop" and old episodes of "Cyborg 009". ;) Atticus
Posted by just plain jane on January 15, 2005, at 22:12:38
In reply to Anyone here collect things? OCD?, posted by Angel Girl on January 12, 2005, at 22:54:43
people, but ran out of room. In my head. I overflowed a little too much and collapsed under the weight of them all.
Posted by bimini on January 17, 2005, at 8:57:03
In reply to I used to collect » Angel Girl, posted by just plain jane on January 15, 2005, at 22:12:38
Places. I wanted to see what it is like in the other 147 countries of the world. The impressions have compounded to appease a once insatiable wonderlust.
bimini
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