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I constant body movement OCD? Will explain in post...

Postby tryingnoto » Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:59 pm

For many years my fingers, toes, and knees are contracting. It never stops, even when I am trying to go to sleep. I cannot imagine that it continues in my sleep, but at all other times it is there. I try to stop conciously, but I am so very uncomfortable at complete stillness, that within seconds, I go right back to it.
There is always a beat to it. I think I would make a very good drummer because of the very specific beat I am always making with my fingers, toes, and knees.
I suffer from a number of disorders... panic, anxiety, PTSD (in a very big way), depression, and agoraphobia. I suppose these all tie together but I have never been able to 'label' the body contractions.
Does it sound like OCD to y'all?
I count all the time, every little thing, and I know that is OCD.
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Postby jahkjahk » Tue Oct 23, 2012 7:54 am

I can't say that I know a name for this...labels are overrated though. I do the same when I am feeling on edge. I cannot stop flicking my fingers and toes, cracking knuckles, scratching my itches and so on. I do know that I do it when I am feeling very very nervous because of what I have on my mind..certain things seem to trigger it and I don't always know why. But I do know it's not craziness, it's a habit that is very tough to stop.
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Postby mereni796 » Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:16 am

I've had a movement thing like that (and I have had ocd since I was a small child). it seemed to be related to a feeling of evenness for me or sometimes just restlessness, feeling like I had to move. To me it almost bordered on being a tic more than a compulsion. Maybe you want to ask a doc if it bothers you. My ocd meds seem to have helped it a lot.
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