Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

I am a 26 year old student studying at San Francisco Art Institute. I am majoring in New Genres and I am GRADUATING in MAY 2008! Hooray!

Anybody hiring? I am looking for something in web design...seriously. :D

I like dogs. I want a boston terrier.

I have a lovely boyfriend.


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I was diagnosed with OCD in April of 2006 but I have had "primarily obsessional" OCD all my life.

My OCD traits:
-magical thinking
-mental gambling
-rumination [sometimes suffocatingly constant]
-intrusive thoughts & obsessions [homosexual, heterosexual, homicidal, body dysmorphic, racist, self-harm, chauvinist, adulterous...if its something shameful, scary, disgusting or mean, I've probably obsessed about it]
-skin picking [scratching and biting too!]

My Dx is: OCD w/BDD and Social Phobia, Adult ADD and Major Depression.

Current Daily Meds:
@DAY [Wellbutrin XL 150mg]
@NIGHT [Paxil 30mg / Clonidine 0.1mg / Ativan 0-1.5mg]

shiny things

photography

art installation

reading for pleasure (not for study) but study for pleasure is ok...

my studio in-law apt

being outside in the sun

not being able to concentrate

counting calories (even though i know its good for me)

andre 3000
antony & the johnsons
aphex twin
billie holiday
bjork
blondie
broadcast
camille
cat power
coco rosie
daft punk
david bowie
dean martin
delarosa and asora
elton john
the faint
feist
fleetwood mac
f.s. blumm
gnarls barkley
the go find
holy sh*t
hood
imogen heap
joanna newsome
jill scott
joy tourette
kate bush
ladytron
the mars volta
massive attack
matmos
mirah
mocket
monade
out hud
the need
pat benatar
peaches
pj harvey
portishead
radiohead
sigur ros
the soft pink truth
sparks
styrofoam
sufjan stevens
thom yorke
tom waits
yeah yeah yeahs

lately read(ing):

Gayatri Spivak: Ethics, Subalternity and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason (Key Contemporary Thinkers) - Stephen Morton

orlando
blade runner
secretary
the man who fell to earth
when harry met sally
down with love
the price of milk
the american astronaut
the goonies
the hunger
barbarella
eyes wide shut
beau travail
psycho beach party
titus
solaris
beetlejuice
the professional

using the internet!

the tele!

[Old Favs] Six Feet Under, My So-Called Life, Sex in the City, Dead Like Me, Battlestar Gallactica (the new one), Northern Exposure, Last Exile, Evangelion, The X-Files

[New Favs] Lost, Dexter, 30 Rock, House

Book Lovers	Obsessive Minds
OCD Pure- O	Artists! + Photographers!