# Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder warning signs? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 21, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-warning-signs/235490 "2004-03-21T01:56:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-warning-signs/235490/21 "2004-03-22T03:29:32Z")
Thanks **Qadgop**. I’m not sure I’ll heed your advice but thanks for putting it out there. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-warning-signs/235490/22 "2004-03-22T04:36:46Z")
**fetus** > [@](#): > > Pot has helped in the recent past, BTW. > [@](#): > > I wasn’t saying that being stoned helps, I was saying that being a stoner helps. (Although I don’t do most of my obsessive/compulsive behaviors when I’m stoned anyway.) What I meant was that smoking pot seems to have helped me when I’m not stoned–I seem to be generally more relaxed about things in general, including obsessive/compulsive stuff. Sorry **fetus** If I missed your point in this regard. Maybe it’s just me but it is a bit confusing. I said , > [@](#): > > BTW Smoking pot doesn’t really help. It does two things. > One, it just makes you focus more on what you are trying to do because you are stoned and don’t want to fuck up. > or > Two, it’s too late…you’re already too stoned to give a shit whether the door is locked or not. **Are you sure that neither one of these two examples doesn’t apply?** add #3 “When I’m **NOT** stoned I am more relaxed and don’t obsess as much.” If this is the case then it is kinda like the old joke. Doc, it hurts when I do this… Hey, you know what? Don’t do that! If smoking weed makes you obsess on your behavior, don’t smoke it. That’s **EXACTLY** one of the reasons that **I** quit. No bullshit buddy…it made me feel the same way you describe yourself. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-warning-signs/235490/23 "2004-03-22T05:26:22Z")
> [@t-keela](#): > > add #3 “When I’m **NOT** stoned I am more relaxed and don’t obsess as much.” > If this is the case then it is kinda like the old joke. Doc, it hurts when I do this… > > Hey, you know what? Don’t do that! If smoking weed makes you obsess on your behavior, don’t smoke it. That’s **EXACTLY** one of the reasons that **I** quit. No bullshit buddy…it made me feel the same way you describe yourself. 🙂 Huh? Let me try to put that across another way. I guess I was a little confusing there. If _x_ represents me, not stoned, **before** I became a stoner, and _y_ represents me, not stoned, **after** I became a stoner, _y_ is more relaxed than _x_ was and does not obsess as much as _x_ did. Get it now? I’m talking about an improvement in obsessive/compulsive behaviors at baseline over time, which may or may not be related to medicinal marijuana use. (That ‘medicinal’ part, actually, reminds me of two things: (1) “I only read it for the articles” and (2) “I only use it to smoke tobacco, Officer”. I guess I should come clean and say that I look at the pictures, figuratively speaking, and that’s a bong, not a water pipe.) Anyway, my point is that things have gotten better, not worse, in all situations since I started. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-warning-signs/235490.md?page=1)