Are you superstitious that it effects your life negatively?

[brocktonblockbust]

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.

[brocktonblockbust]

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.

[Gandalf]

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.

[brocktonblockbust]

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.

[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......

[Gandalf]

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.

[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.

[Beanz]

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.

[imp]

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

Grow up ffs.

[Beanz]

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.