Transgender and OCD

[juliemac]

I was thinking the other day, if there were a correlation between being TS and my OCD.
Its fine for my job as an engineer, I can concentrate for hours or days on a bug in code or in a machine, methodically shredding it till I have an awnser.

But, did the same great tool, influence my transition and if so, what about others? The TS's I met over the years all seemed obsessed with the surgery, as if it were a do all, fix all solution to their lives. (This is the main reason I stayed well away from the community after I gained custody of my 5yo daughter)

I know I did for the longest time, till many years after I transitioned and found, that I was the woman I saw in my head. That despite what was in my pants, it wasn't me...

So. My question to you is: Are you OCD?

[Jillieann Rose]

No, but I am ADD.
I have a son who is ADHD.
The others are like me ADD.
But there is no OCD in my family.
Jillieann

[spacial]

juliemac,

With great respect, what you've described are not symptoms of OCD. The opposite is fact.

You are a perfectionist who deals with a job, throughly and dilligently.

I haven't met you and you haven't described any other aspects of your life here, so I can't comment there. But I've never noticed any OCD type symptoms in any of your posts.

[rejennyrated]

Nope - pretty relaxed all round here.

Slight tendency towards being a scatterbrain... but that's probably just my artistic temperament.

[erocse]

 
I think I have to say, I have considered myself OCD in the past. Since starting Hrt I have been Allot more "scatterbrained" I like scatterbrained better. It's much more fun then OCD.

     Erocse

[Miniar]

I've just got social anxiety (and therapist says "no wonder!"), possible/probable ADD (to be fully determined), MILD! ocd tendencies, and thirty metric tons worth of stress.

[juliemac]

Lol... Social anxiety  I think all of us know that one 

I thought for a while I might have ADOS. Attention Deficite Ohhh Shiny.. But it was a fleeting thought.

Actually, more along the lines of "OMG I must live like.." "Ohhh I hate my..." Obsessing over trivial things. Magnifying the "problem" by constant thinking about it.
I remember my own thoughts (mannnny years ago) ran along the same lines.

There I go again, self analysis and overly analitical.
I need sleep.

[kyril]

Definitely no OCD here. I'm impulsive, disorderly, often careless, distractible...actually I could probably get an ADD diagnosis if I wanted more alphabet soup to pile on my TG, PTSD, SA, SAD, PMDD, MD, PPD self. But OCD? No way. The closest I get is that I can be rather perfectionist in my hyperfocused states.

[lilacwoman]

I don't have anyone around who is OCD.  Thank goodness!

I did have a boss who was OCD to the point that it took him ten minutes to get out of the office at end of day as he repeatedly checked his desk, cabinets, door were all locked and unlocked and locked till we felt like saying Go home!

I'm actually very unsympathetic to people who claim to have one or other of these modern afflictions as no-one helped me at all with my TSism and I do think and research shows that parenting and diet is responsible for most of the problems that keep therapists rich.