Compulsive Actions Quotes

I have very, very strong obsessive-compulsive issues. I'm very particular.

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.

It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in the opposite direction because of a pressing need to straighten all the pictures on the walls, floss my teeth a second time, and make certain that there really are 100 postage stamps in the roll of stamps I bought yesterday.

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.

I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.

I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.

OCD is an anxiety disorder, one that brings conscious intrusive thoughts and compulsions - 'Touch the bannister. Pick up that rock. You'd better do it, or something terrible will happen.'