Thread: Are you superstitious that it effects your life negatively?

I am havıng a hard tıme lately. The braın changes wıth age. Several thıngs about the way I thınk are that I start to ımagıne that thıngs wıll happen ıf I dont touch or say certaın thıngs a certaın number of tımes. I know I have OCD but ıts gettıng worse.

If a poem comes to mınd I have to wrıte ıt. It ıs lıke Tourettes I guess that I have to do certaın thıngs a certaın way and ıts hard to resıst. I gets alot worse when I dont sleep enough.

Not superstitious, but when I get in a frame of mind to do something, it has to be done and other things will fall to the wayside. For example, I will get a song idea and literally cannot do anything else until the process is complete. It can be frustrating as I know I have more practical things to be getting on with. Then on the flipside, if I am feeling down, I literally don't want to do anything. Both can be negative, but have nothing to do with superstition.

I also never answer my phone as I don't like the process and I am constantly changing email addresses. This is closer to superstition, but is really more about paranoia and a basic dislike of phones.

When phones ring I get a shock rush of adrenaline. I don't know why. Its like I feel I am caught off guard about some ominous situation or challenge.

I read somewhere that many soldiers in Vietnam always stuck to their daily routines. Why? They feared something might happen to them when they strayed from their usual routines. I guess when we're insecure - or people who are insecure - (we) tend to maintian strict rountine in our daily lives. So being a bit superstitious is natural for us poor beings... but let's not forget, we aren't in Vietnam......

I find it so annoying when someone mentions "touch wood" after talking about something.

Grow up ffs.

Originally Posted by pacfan

I read somewhere that many soldiers in Vietnam always stuck to their daily routines. Why? They feared something might happen to them when they strayed from their usual routines. I guess when we're insecure - or people who are insecure - (we) tend to maintian strict rountine in our daily lives. So being a bit superstitious is natural for us poor beings... but let's not forget, we aren't in Vietnam......

Good points. I hadn't though about that. It's probably why I write down a list of things to do each day and plan out my meal timetable. Subconciously I am insecure and at war. That may be so.

I write notes all the time at work even in informal meeting, just obsessed by it and I have 15 years of notes that I have made.

Originally Posted by imp

I find it so annoying when someone mentions "touch wood" after talking about something.

Grow up ffs.

I don't think that is childish just an old saying that someone is reiterating or a simple superstition that makes someone feel a bit more lucky.

Originally Posted by Master

I write notes all the time at work even in informal meeting, just obsessed by it and I have 15 years of notes that I have made.

I take notes for a living.Did 23 pages this morning so I wouldn't be too worried by it. You can always turn it into a new job if you ever leave your present one. It astonishes me considering how poor my grammar is, and what a loose idea i have of sentence structure that people can read them, but I got asked to do them again this year for a returning student I helped last year, so there must be something about them that helps.

Originally Posted by Greenbeanz

Originally Posted by Master

I write notes all the time at work even in informal meeting, just obsessed by it and I have 15 years of notes that I have made.

I take notes for a living.Did 23 pages this morning so I wouldn't be too worried by it. You can always turn it into a new job if you ever leave your present one. It astonishes me considering how poor my grammar is, and what a loose idea i have of sentence structure that people can read them, but I got asked to do them again this year for a returning student I helped last year, so there must be something about them that helps.

That is a good job!

I got the addiction from my days at school where we took notes from lecturers and never stopped. The police have used them as evidence so they are good quality.

Are you superstitious that it effects your life negatively?

You mean like walking down the road trying to miss all the joins to save your mum and you end up with some walking disorder and a bad back in later life?

Tread on a crack, break your mothers back. remember that one?

Someone out there, at least one, must be walking around like a mixture of the Hunch back of Notre dame and John Wayne.

I've wondered in the past if superstition and OCD are distant ugly cousins. I had a short time in early teens where everything had to be done 7 times. Mostly everything. For the fear that if not "something bad would happen". It was rather debilitating and consumed massive amounts of time and function.

Yes I had a obsession I wanted to tub my mates sister, yes Carol drove me nut's I see her now
and I think WTF, strange when your young she was a babe in her youth, now hell she's ugly lucky
escape me thinks.

I have to say white rabbit 3 times every 1st on the months, otherwise its gonna be an unlucky month