Pure C OCD?

[sacredstar]

I've browsed through a couple pages of threads and found some references to pure O OCD, but I was wondering if anyone out there feels they have pure compulsion OCD?

[Smoky Jo]

Hello,

Many people here suffer from pure O.

[drjekyll]

Mine is mostly compulsions, I think. I'm still kind of new to all of this, and don't quite have the terminology. Most of the time, I just have compulsions to do something or else something bad will happen. Many, many compulsions.

But I also have the obsessive thoughts, so it isn't pure compulsiveness.

[pauly j]

Interesting question!  After thinking about it for awhile, I came to the conclusion that there is no such thing as "Pure C!"  You can have an obsession without performing a ritual to relieve the anxious thoughts, as in "Pure O", but in order to have a pure compulsion, there would have to be a thought for it to bring it about!  Therefore, I think that if someone has just compulsions without and obsession, it would be more just a habit, such as some nail biters!  They are not performing these rituals to relieve and obsessive thoughts, just a pure habit!  That is my guess, however I may be wrong!

pauly j

[beatles86]

Just having compulsions would basically be having tics, doing something without a psychological reason (obsession).  I have this, but I have always had little tics that I would do.  I do have OCD as well. 

[pauly j]

Isn't tics an involuntary body movement?

[drjekyll]

Come to think of it, I think it's as pauly j says. I thougt with OCD, you have compulsions to do something based on the obsessive thought that if you don't something will go wrong. In my case it isn't always a specific ritual that I am obsessed with. For example I will suddenly feel that I have to touch something (or more alarmingly the latest thing is to lick something, not once but 4 times! ). Or I will have to eat a certain thing for breakfast, or drink out of a certain cup. But there is always the obsessive part where I feel that something bad will happen (i.e. that my father will die) if I don't. 

[pauly j]

Come to think about it, I do some things that can probably considered a compulsion?  I scratch the back of my phone to music a lot of times!  I also hit my hands on the table to the beat of music, and it has to be an even amount of times on both hands!  Never did I think of this as a compulsion

[luvinsingin07]

I am absolutely positive that I'm OCD and suffer from Pure C.

As soon as I suspected I had OCD...years ago, I started studying the symptoms, and I couldn't relate to the examples or definition of obsessions.
My compulsions aren't like tics either...at all. They ARE compulsions, they just aren't performed to help obsessive thoughts.
I just randomly get a need to perform them. I'll be reading, and my brain just automatically tells me "You can't keep reading until you spell that word, then spell it again backwards". And I feel extremely anxious if I don't do it. I have mental rituals, and cannot STAND certain parts of my body (fingers, toes, ears) that aren't exactly the same. I really have issues with symmetry, concerning certain things.
I can't see these things as being anything but OCD, but like I said, I have no obsessions, nor have I ever had them.
I've been trying to find more information on Pure C OCD, because I'd found a bit on Pure O, but nothing about Pure C, which I need.

[beatles86]

I am the same exact way luvinsinging07, I have things very, very similar things as the ones you described but no psychological (obsessions) reason that I do them, I just do them because they feel right and it I don't it stays with me and drives me nuts.  I use to have some obsessions, but I overcame them, and now it's just the compulsions.  I have always had things like this, as far back as I can remember, just compulsions with no reasons for doing them.  I also have a few tics, and the feeling I get if I don't do a tic is the same feeling I get if I don't do a mental ritual.  If you think about it, these mental compulsions are really like mental tics.  Physical tics are seen physically, but mental tics are just as they sound, mental.  I think these things all come from the same place, the urge to do something an the feeling of uneasiness and anxiousness if the action is not performed.  My psychiatrist things that all these things (tics, obsessions, mental compulsions/tics) all come from the same place.  So this is just my two cents.