is this OCD?

I take a lot of showers. Like 4 a day sometimes. The thing is, I don't HAVE to. It's hard to describe... it's like a compulsion, but not so strong that I must do it. It doesn't really cause me any majorly huge problems.

Is that a weak form of OCD? Are there others here who sort of do things a lot but they don't really have to?

thx

Hi ycinsha,

Why do you think you take so many showers? Is it that you enjoy them...or something else?
A lot of people have little idiosyncracies; it doesn't mean they necessarily have OCD. That isn't to say, however, that you don't have it.

Well wishes,

Evol

"Why do you think you take so many showers?"

well that's the thing i don't know really. i have no reason or at leats nothing i know about in my mind. it's like... it feels like the rihgt thing to do. i can ignore it specially if theres someting else to focus on liek to occupy my attention or something like a movie or to cook food, then i dont' notice it. but in the idle times it just feels like the right thing to do, that's all i can describe. sometimes ive done 6x a day even.

sometimes i want to brush my teeth a lot too but i gues the dentist doesnt' mind that so much lol

probably your right, just a little thing not really ocd, anyway i know real ocd is way more serious and hard to cope. this is harmless really

thx

This is just a thought, but you could try not taking a shower at all for a day, and then only one shower the following day.
A good way to figure out why you do something is by not doing it at all...

I wouldn't say your problem is harmless; it's troubling you enough to seek help for it, after all.

Well wishes,

Evol