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I can't look into the bathroom mirror in the middle of the night. I suspect this fear comes from watching Poltergeist at an impressionable age (I never saw the man's face peel off but I know it did). I refuse to dangle my feet off the edge of the bed. (Again, Poltergeist.) I also have to step on and off a plane with my right foot. I get very antsy when the people in front of me put their left foot first. And I have to make the sign of the cross when I walk underneath ladders.
Uh, anybody else have this?
posted by Ali @ 2:58 PM
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Why the right foot?
(And no, I am perfectly neurosis free. At least, that's what my psychiatrist says.)
-cuvjert
It's called OCD, and many many people have it. Some are even getting help for it.
Yeah, I have the mirror thing at night also. I think it's from childhood "seances" for Bloody Bloody Mary.
But now I picture the girl from The Ring when I get really freaked out. I'm copying that tape as fast as I can!!!
Dan beat me to the diagnosis, but yes this does reek of OCD. There are pills thankfully. Now if you will excuse me while I commit my post blog commenting ritual of counting to 34 three times while slapping myself in the face.
You actually walk under ladders? Yeah, I so won't even do that. I think it's a phobia.
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