I've got this problem with MMORPGs, especially GW2. In the 3 years the game exists now, I created like hundreds of differenct characters in all differenct combinations and only got 2 of them to the top level. Two characters in 3 years. For gods sake I don't have the thought that i have to clear every zone or achievement, but I've got huge problems with identification with the character and it's really hard for me to pick a race, class or name. This almost destroyed the whole game for me, because when my friends played I couldn't play with them because I was so obsessed with this negative thoughts that the character just doesn't fit my personality or I will have major disadvantages because of my choices. Whenever I try to deal with the OCD and just try to ignore it, I always got the feeling that it is so "forced" and gaming should actually make you happy, so again I delete and create a new one. It's really a terrible feeling and people who don't suffer from OCD probably wont understand this but for me, it really gives me a feeling of being helpless, just unnormal and cursed to play a character I feel not comfortable with, but I have to play it to overcome the disease. It really sucks so much, I just wanna have fun like everyone else and I also get medication now against it, I just hope this shit leaves me alone because it destroys me not just on a psychological, but also a physical level, I also suffer from skin picking which makes it even worse.. :( Others can't understand how I put so much thoughts into this game and they think it's not real suffering because it's just a game, but the fact that the disease got so far that even gaming doesn't make fun anymore is the actual point
When I play online I have to win or score in such a way or I don't want the win and score and it really driven the fun out of games for me and become more of a task than a game. OCD? And some days I don't even care about the win and rather focus on making my avatar/car move fun and look good. OCD?
That is OCD I constantly need to win games in my own standards it has also driven out the fun of the games for me as well you are not the only person with that.
I'm pretty sure I have OCD and mostly in related to gaming. I agree that everyone like to reload if only one bullet has been fired in a gun or something. You can help tell me if this sounds like OCD. Okay so I have a gaming PC, a rather good one because I need to get the best graphics out of games, but here are some things I experience - Constantly worrying about my PC breaking down or even exploding, since it cost so much money, and it helps to make me feel worse by knowing I built it myself and that I may lose a lot of money from it, even though it has actually been going strong for 6 months and there's no indication it will go wrong. I worry about noises I hear from my PC as well, I never feel like any of them are normal and I always feel like I'm using a dying PC when it's probably pretty healthy. Sometimes these noises can make me shut off my PC. When actually using it, some games require a fair amount of tinkering to run well, like Ubisofts badly optimized games. I have to constantly check my settings outside of the game, and the graphics settings inside of the game, a lot of the time while I'm playing. Here's something for RPG games like Skyrim and Fallout, I always have to keep checking my inventory to make sure I didn't lose an important item for some reason, and try to also collect certain things in the playthroughs, and also, in games such as that and many other games,if a game seems to glitch something at some point, it can make me feel really uneasy that the rest of the game will be glitched, and also sometimes it'll make me restart the whole game. Ugh it sucks that it takes so much enjoyment away.
While I'm certainly more experienced with matters regarding OCD outside of gaming, by the sounds of it you are showing signs of obsessive compulsive behaviours (don't worry though! Many people have these sort of feelings and actions). In regard to the state of your PC, I can sympathise as I'm a bit of a worrier myself. I don't think that's obsessive compulsive behaviour though, but it's certainly a great deal of anxiety based around something you've spent a lot of time and money on. My advice here would be some relaxation techniques, especially if you feel like you're forced to shut off the PC completely. Take some time to do some steady, relaxed breathing and if you feel like doing it, I'll explain a short relaxation exercise at the bottom of this post. It's important to be aware that something 'could' go wrong with your PC, they're complex pieces of kit. That doesn't mean it will! Like anything in life, something's just happen, there isn't much we can do about it unfortunately. You could look into PC maintenance and repair, it might give you some reassurances that you can do something if there is a problem and make you worry a little less. As for the graphics settings and inventories - I'd say this is obsessive compulsive behaviour, may I ask if it's just related to you gaming, or do you find yourself 'checking' things often outside of gaming? There is no simple fix to this, except a great deal of willpower really and retraining your brain (the earlier you catch onto this sort of thing, the easier it is to fight). If you're feeling strong, try to refrain from checking on those items, even just for a little while, the anxiety you experience might peak - at this point, you can try to calm yourself down or you might give in to the compulsion and have a look, it's okay to do that, it's not something you'll overcome overnight! But fighting the anxiety is key. Finally, where you talk about feeling really uneasy that a game might be glitched from that point forward - this sort of thing is related to intrusive thoughts and can produce really intense anxiety - I experience this a lot (on different subject matters though). Again, relaxing can help, be sure to take a moment to tell yourself that everything is okay, it was just a little hiccup (you can use your own words, just a little bit of self reassurance can go a long way), feeling forced to restart is where those intrusive thoughts have taken hold and are now in the realms of OCD...it was described to me that when this sort of thing happens, its because our brains have 'miss learned' an appropriate reaction, retraining can be a long and hard progress, but the more you can resist, or flat out ignore the desire to reboot, the easier it should become in time. (Just to add, these are my own words and thoughts, I'm not a professional, just someone else that suffers with OCD and OCB). - - - The relaxation technique I mentioned is pretty simple. Ideally get somewhere comfortable, I prefer to lie down. What I'd ask you to do is 'tense up' for 5 to 10 seconds, and relax for a further 5 to 10 seconds. Do each body part individually, not all at once! Start with your toes, scrunch them up and then release, have a little wiggle. Stretch your feet out, then relax. Lock your knee's and unlock. Push your hips up, then back down again. Clench your rear, and relax. Push your chest out and ease it back down. Clench your hands into a fist, release and shake them a little. Straighten your arms, then back to a neutral position. Scrunch your shoulders up, relax and give them a little shake. Carefully arch your neck back, pointing your chin towards the sky and then relax. Then screw up your face like you're angry (try to think positive thoughts though) and ease off. At this point, try and smile three times, slightly longer after each one (so 5, 10, 15 seconds). That's it! Take a minute or two to relax and become comfortable, focus on some steady breathing and some nice thoughts. When you're feeling relaxed, continue what you were doing! You'll probably find by doing this exercise you'll begin to notice when you're tense as well, or start getting anxious and it'll hopefully help you remain calm and in control. I hope it helps a little, best of luck!
Iv made so many game accounts I couldn't even tell you how many got to be hundreds just because of trophies and achievements of I play a game and can't get them all I make a new profile and never play that game again my friends think Im crazy but it bothers me to not 100% a game is this OCD?
+Th3 Ba55X0mb13 Sorry for the late reply, it's been a while since I've been active on UA-cam. To me, that sounds like a bit of obsessive compulsive behaviour rather than disorder (and that's fine! A lot of people have little obsessive behaviours). What I'd ask, is how do you feel when you decide to make a new account? Also, have you tried to continue on the same account and did you experience any anxiety from attempting that? One pretty brutal realisation with OCD is that an effective method of dealing with things can be to 'power through', for a lot of people, the behaviour is a result of the brain miss learning an appropriate response. Beating this can be much easier the earlier you catch that you're doing something obsessively, so if you feel up to it, you could attempt to stick with a single account as long as possible. While this will likely cause a lot more anxiety in the short term, the idea is you become more comfortable with it over time and the longer you can fight, the easier it can get. An example for me, was a little obsessive behaviour when playing games to always jump an even amount of times and choose the left path if two or more options are available. Now, while I suffer with OCD, these absolutely weren't ticking the 'disorder' box, I felt increased anxiety and a feeling that doing it was 'right', but not much else. It took a good couple of months actively stopping myself from counting my jumps, and I forced myself to take the right path every now and then. I now have that under control, but even still, the desire to go back into that pattern is still there, chirping away. G'luck!
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I've got this problem with MMORPGs, especially GW2. In the 3 years the game exists now, I created like hundreds of differenct characters in all differenct combinations and only got 2 of them to the top level. Two characters in 3 years.
For gods sake I don't have the thought that i have to clear every zone or achievement, but I've got huge problems with identification with the character and it's really hard for me to pick a race, class or name. This almost destroyed the whole game for me, because when my friends played I couldn't play with them because I was so obsessed with this negative thoughts that the character just doesn't fit my personality or I will have major disadvantages because of my choices.
Whenever I try to deal with the OCD and just try to ignore it, I always got the feeling that it is so "forced" and gaming should actually make you happy, so again I delete and create a new one. It's really a terrible feeling and people who don't suffer from OCD probably wont understand this but for me, it really gives me a feeling of being helpless, just unnormal and cursed to play a character I feel not comfortable with, but I have to play it to overcome the disease. It really sucks so much, I just wanna have fun like everyone else and I also get medication now against it, I just hope this shit leaves me alone because it destroys me not just on a psychological, but also a physical level, I also suffer from skin picking which makes it even worse.. :( Others can't understand how I put so much thoughts into this game and they think it's not real suffering because it's just a game, but the fact that the disease got so far that even gaming doesn't make fun anymore is the actual point
My OCD is way different.. if the tv isn't comfortable to my eyesight, I freak out and try to fix it.
When I play online I have to win or score in such a way or I don't want the win and score and it really driven the fun out of games for me and become more of a task than a game. OCD? And some days I don't even care about the win and rather focus on making my avatar/car move fun and look good. OCD?
That is OCD I constantly need to win games in my own standards it has also driven out the fun of the games for me as well you are not the only person with that.
I'm pretty sure I have OCD and mostly in related to gaming. I agree that everyone like to reload if only one bullet has been fired in a gun or something. You can help tell me if this sounds like OCD. Okay so I have a gaming PC, a rather good one because I need to get the best graphics out of games, but here are some things I experience - Constantly worrying about my PC breaking down or even exploding, since it cost so much money, and it helps to make me feel worse by knowing I built it myself and that I may lose a lot of money from it, even though it has actually been going strong for 6 months and there's no indication it will go wrong. I worry about noises I hear from my PC as well, I never feel like any of them are normal and I always feel like I'm using a dying PC when it's probably pretty healthy. Sometimes these noises can make me shut off my PC. When actually using it, some games require a fair amount of tinkering to run well, like Ubisofts badly optimized games. I have to constantly check my settings outside of the game, and the graphics settings inside of the game, a lot of the time while I'm playing. Here's something for RPG games like Skyrim and Fallout, I always have to keep checking my inventory to make sure I didn't lose an important item for some reason, and try to also collect certain things in the playthroughs, and also, in games such as that and many other games,if a game seems to glitch something at some point, it can make me feel really uneasy that the rest of the game will be glitched, and also sometimes it'll make me restart the whole game. Ugh it sucks that it takes so much enjoyment away.
While I'm certainly more experienced with matters regarding OCD outside of gaming, by the sounds of it you are showing signs of obsessive compulsive behaviours (don't worry though! Many people have these sort of feelings and actions).
In regard to the state of your PC, I can sympathise as I'm a bit of a worrier myself. I don't think that's obsessive compulsive behaviour though, but it's certainly a great deal of anxiety based around something you've spent a lot of time and money on. My advice here would be some relaxation techniques, especially if you feel like you're forced to shut off the PC completely. Take some time to do some steady, relaxed breathing and if you feel like doing it, I'll explain a short relaxation exercise at the bottom of this post.
It's important to be aware that something 'could' go wrong with your PC, they're complex pieces of kit. That doesn't mean it will! Like anything in life, something's just happen, there isn't much we can do about it unfortunately. You could look into PC maintenance and repair, it might give you some reassurances that you can do something if there is a problem and make you worry a little less.
As for the graphics settings and inventories - I'd say this is obsessive compulsive behaviour, may I ask if it's just related to you gaming, or do you find yourself 'checking' things often outside of gaming? There is no simple fix to this, except a great deal of willpower really and retraining your brain (the earlier you catch onto this sort of thing, the easier it is to fight). If you're feeling strong, try to refrain from checking on those items, even just for a little while, the anxiety you experience might peak - at this point, you can try to calm yourself down or you might give in to the compulsion and have a look, it's okay to do that, it's not something you'll overcome overnight! But fighting the anxiety is key.
Finally, where you talk about feeling really uneasy that a game might be glitched from that point forward - this sort of thing is related to intrusive thoughts and can produce really intense anxiety - I experience this a lot (on different subject matters though). Again, relaxing can help, be sure to take a moment to tell yourself that everything is okay, it was just a little hiccup (you can use your own words, just a little bit of self reassurance can go a long way), feeling forced to restart is where those intrusive thoughts have taken hold and are now in the realms of OCD...it was described to me that when this sort of thing happens, its because our brains have 'miss learned' an appropriate reaction, retraining can be a long and hard progress, but the more you can resist, or flat out ignore the desire to reboot, the easier it should become in time.
(Just to add, these are my own words and thoughts, I'm not a professional, just someone else that suffers with OCD and OCB).
- - -
The relaxation technique I mentioned is pretty simple. Ideally get somewhere comfortable, I prefer to lie down. What I'd ask you to do is 'tense up' for 5 to 10 seconds, and relax for a further 5 to 10 seconds. Do each body part individually, not all at once!
Start with your toes, scrunch them up and then release, have a little wiggle.
Stretch your feet out, then relax.
Lock your knee's and unlock.
Push your hips up, then back down again.
Clench your rear, and relax.
Push your chest out and ease it back down.
Clench your hands into a fist, release and shake them a little.
Straighten your arms, then back to a neutral position.
Scrunch your shoulders up, relax and give them a little shake.
Carefully arch your neck back, pointing your chin towards the sky and then relax.
Then screw up your face like you're angry (try to think positive thoughts though) and ease off.
At this point, try and smile three times, slightly longer after each one (so 5, 10, 15 seconds).
That's it! Take a minute or two to relax and become comfortable, focus on some steady breathing and some nice thoughts.
When you're feeling relaxed, continue what you were doing! You'll probably find by doing this exercise you'll begin to notice when you're tense as well, or start getting anxious and it'll hopefully help you remain calm and in control.
I hope it helps a little, best of luck!
Sorry. ;*( OCD often makes games more tedious, rather than fun for me, these days. ;*(
Did find a fix
Iv made so many game accounts I couldn't even tell you how many got to be hundreds just because of trophies and achievements of I play a game and can't get them all I make a new profile and never play that game again my friends think Im crazy but it bothers me to not 100% a game is this OCD?
+Th3 Ba55X0mb13 Sorry for the late reply, it's been a while since I've been active on UA-cam. To me, that sounds like a bit of obsessive compulsive behaviour rather than disorder (and that's fine! A lot of people have little obsessive behaviours). What I'd ask, is how do you feel when you decide to make a new account? Also, have you tried to continue on the same account and did you experience any anxiety from attempting that?
One pretty brutal realisation with OCD is that an effective method of dealing with things can be to 'power through', for a lot of people, the behaviour is a result of the brain miss learning an appropriate response. Beating this can be much easier the earlier you catch that you're doing something obsessively, so if you feel up to it, you could attempt to stick with a single account as long as possible. While this will likely cause a lot more anxiety in the short term, the idea is you become more comfortable with it over time and the longer you can fight, the easier it can get.
An example for me, was a little obsessive behaviour when playing games to always jump an even amount of times and choose the left path if two or more options are available. Now, while I suffer with OCD, these absolutely weren't ticking the 'disorder' box, I felt increased anxiety and a feeling that doing it was 'right', but not much else. It took a good couple of months actively stopping myself from counting my jumps, and I forced myself to take the right path every now and then. I now have that under control, but even still, the desire to go back into that pattern is still there, chirping away.
G'luck!
I have existentialist ocd one of the worst kinds