what is OCD and do you have it let’s talk about that good mythical morning yesterday we released a brand spanking new music video on the retina link channel it’s called my OCD a song and it features link playing link and me playing a man and a mysterious white coat and lots of things are organized and it’s very pleasing so check that out also I invite you to download the song on iTunes in Reis write and review the song properly thank you for that so the consumption for this song came from something that we have noticed we’ve actually noticed it quite a bit here on good mythical morning but I’ve noticed it throughout the the Internet and that is every once in a while there be a little something wrong with one of us yeah it might be that our hoodie strings are a little bit off-kilter or the camera isn’t quite a miser Mike’s not right in the middle and are like maybe my mug is right here and then links mug is right there when that would be step would be good and I’ll be gesturing like this and people are like us move your move they’re like guys get your hoodie string straight get the microphone centered because you’re driving my OCD crazy like it’s a pet or something so this is something that I mean if people talk about this all the time and then I noticed there were all these lists on the internet 39 images that will drive your OCD crazy and again it’s the same kind of stuff that we featured in the video things that are off-kilter things that are unbalanced things that are you know turn the wrong way right so it’s a common sentiment across the Internet’s right that if something’s not quite right I I can’t make it right but the best I can do is comment about it not being right right so that so that music video is our attempt to kind of represent that mentality and to show you some things and then give you the satisfaction of link straighten them out but here’s the question here’s the technical question friends is what we represented in the video yo OCD or are people using the term OCD too lightly hmm now we should say right off the bat that OCD is an actual disorder that mean people maybe you or someone you know out there and is clinically diagnosed with OCD and it rocks their world so yeah we wanted to say right off the bat that happens and the mission of our music video or this conversation right now is not to make light of those people Carew’s who suffer from legitimately suffer from OCD so that being said and I have a conversation I can also say no joke my wife has been diagnosed with OCD so and this is something she struggled with her entire life and that you know she’s she’s dealt with it or she continues to deal with it but she’s experienced a lot of victory over it but I know a little bit about it just from from her dealing and when you push the idea it gives me the right to talk about it know when you talk about the music video or the idea for shoes like this sounds hilarious I think he’s right you should go for it I said is this insensitive to do this and just like no it’s comedy go for it it’s comedy okay so obsessive-compulsive disorder obviously that’s what OCD stands for so I’m going to break that down a little bit for us the first part you start with disorder and I’m going to start with obsessive okay so an obsession an obsession can be start with compulsive and just really screw with people I don’t want to do that I’m gonna start with a session okay do it okay an obsession could be any recurring thought or idea that keeps it is recurring in other words you continue to think about it and you obsess about it it could be a number it could be a color it could be whether or not you’re you’ve contaminated your hands it could be whether or not you’ve hurt someone there are different categories that people kind of put these obsessions into but in reality and recession could be absolutely anything it could be like I am obsessed I have a fear of the color red so any time I see red or I see somebody wearing red I think something bad is going to happen I don’t want to wear red I never I stay away from red can almost take on a superstition kind of quality to it or it could be one of the most common obsession which is I think I might have contaminated myself so I need to wash my hands your deed must yeah in any case it takes all kinds of different forms it’s not just those ones that you’ve heard about it can be like religious thoughts that people have it could be thoughts about the devil it can go into lots of really dark places so that’s the obsession ideas thoughts and pulses or images that keep coming back and these are upsetting these bring about some serious anxiety and they can and they keep happening okay the second part is the compulsive the compulsion and that is in order to cope with the obsessions that people have they engage in these repeated almost ritualistic behaviors to deal with these to relieve the anxiety so I’m obsessed with the lights well I’m not personally but let’s say I was obsessed with the light switch being turned off but I am I have a compulsion to turn it off repeatedly until it feels right well not exactly that maybe that would I have to keep flipping the light switch eighteen times before I can leave the room okay maybe it could look like that but it could also be like I think I might have contaminating my contaminating myself so I’m going to wash my hands repeatedly I’m going to wash my hands more than I need to I’m compulsive or compelled to in order to keep my house safe I may go back and check and check and check and check to make sure that I lock the door or and it does have to do with the exactness I can’t have anything that is out of order and I’m constantly thinking about that and constantly doing things that bring those things in order now here’s there here’s the thing now isn’t that kind of normal people obsess about things people have concerns about things and then people do things to relieve the anxiety that’s associated with those things isn’t that just a normal thing well yeah lots of people do these kinds of things and that doesn’t necessarily mean you have OCD it’s when the obsessions and the compulsions consume you when you don’t have control over them but they have control over you and they actually begin to affect your life right so they take place you know they get in the way of your work they get in the way of your school again the way of your relationships that’s when you’re getting into what might actually be a disorder and I’m listening I’m not a psychologist no and we’re not maybe this is a medical advice we’re giving with this yes yes this is just sort of where this where the research is right now now I like to keep things organized I mean I’m not going to go up to a stranger and fix his hoodie strings or fix someone else’s candy but I’ll organize my own candy does that mean I have that he’s dead you’ll stack it up like you did in the video if I’m well no but I will definitely fix my closet okay well like look at my closet it’s it’s right buddy well if it makes me feel good here’s if I have OCD no so in doing the research for the video or for that for this episode I actually learned about something that I’d heard about but I thought it was the same thing but it just shows my ignorance is OCPD obsessive-compulsive personality disorder so it turns out while they sound very much the same it’s a totally different disorder they’re not even technically related they have some crossover but it’s a totally different thing what is it OCD is an anxiety disorder meaning that those obsessions that we talked about bring about anxiety then people use compulsions to kind of deal with those and it’s like repetitive compulsions repetitive thoughts okay whereas OCPD is a personality disorder and these people who have it which is a lot more common first of all they don’t see it as a problem it doesn’t bring about anxiety it’s a personality it’s a disposition it’s a tendency to keep things what basically it’s just a rigidity about anything it could be a moral rigidity it could be a rigidity about cleanliness it could be a rigidity about symmetry and orderliness that’s one of the things that it takes that it manifests itself most often now so it turns out one of the things I’ve learned is that this OCD phenomenon that we kind of made fun of in the video which is not making fun of the disorder but making fun of the way that people characterize themselves as having OCD anytime they see these things mm-hmm they’re actually talking about OCPD more likely than OCD because these are not obsessive thoughts and repetitive compulsions that we’re talking about in the video it’s this a tendency to want to straighten things out now do you have OCPD well I don’t think so because first of all I’m not a professional I’m not here to diagnose you but the D in both of them disorder indicates that this is something that affects your quality of life this is something that is getting in the way of you living a normal life mm-hmm you know so I just because you’re really opinionated or picky or organized it doesn’t it doesn’t translate into an – a disorder if it’s really getting you down you probably need to go see somebody a professional to get more diagnosed why can online survey they said you could do that I could take a survey just call me Internet no don’t do that now I always gave myself the label anal retentive and I have done which which I didn’t do that publicly because I’m not I don’t like having medallion it says anal retentive or t-shirt right but if I were going to describe myself and like I describe myself as frugal and maybe cheap and also separate from that anal retentive well I’m glad you asked that link as I did a little research on that – so anal retentive is something that Sigmund Freud came up with you know psychologists you know earlier last century okay and his whole part of Freud he had all kinds of theories about the way that things happen in childhood in your relationship with your mother and that kind of thing that indicated different disorders he thought that people who experience conflict between the ages of 18 to 36 months months that’s when you’re developing control over your bowels if you experience conflict during that period you could become an anal retentive person that means a person who literally retains their feces you’re holding your poop in and this is an indication that you’re kind of tightly wound and it lends itself to other things other personality traits okay now I will say that well first of all as a kid yeah I went through some hardships so I guess a little bit you know some some some family shuffles happened you know in-laws outlaw steps this stuff type thing yeah and as a kid I do remember holding my poop all the time I did not want to do number two when I would go to my grandma’s house I remember I would go outside and I would go behind the bushes and squat down and like not poop I would do that to hold in the food what were you afraid of I don’t I don’t know it was just I didn’t want to go to the bathroom you still do this birthday I’m doing it right now well I’m glad you know I do remember that though and even now I there’ll be moments when I’m like stressed about something and I realize that my my pucker string is like I’m just being honest we should keep yourself but or share with the Internet and I have to make a decision like literally on a weekly basis I make a decision to leave pucker to D pucker to just relax a little bit down there I should put a little note above your desk that says D pucker okay well here’s the good news for you link most of those theories have been completely disproven there is probably no connection there ain’t no retentive but the term anal-retentive has been retained as a psychological term to describe someone who is probably similar to somebody who’s OCPD but the connection between 18 to 36 months that’s been brought into I don’t you dispute I don’t know I feel like now you can bring it back you could be a Freudian if you want to eat my fraud Ian slips all the time yeah I’m not I’m not prepared to embrace everything that Freud talked about because I don’t know all of it but this one thing he may have been onto something okay so the bottom line is we were not making fun of obsessive-compulsive disorder we were tapping into that phenomenon that people tend to say I have OCD but it turns out they’re probably talking about OCPD and most likely not even talking about a disorder that is talking about the fact that they just have an attention to detail which you don’t have to call you know lieutenant you see if you wanted to but because it’s you know it doesn’t go over well at parties thanks for liking and commenting on this episode you know what time it is hi I’m Danny and I’m Colton and this is a massive freaking cliff were and it’s time to spin the wheel of mythicality make sure you check out the my OCD song on the rhett and Link channel we made it with you in mind that’s right also download the song in iTunes click through to good mythical more where we discuss famous people with OCD and our personal encounter with Howie Mandel big things right every night I would pet him on a head seven times this so much yeah like literally in a countable manner that’s weird I would pet him other times too