I think it may depend a lot on how well the action fits into your schema for reasonable behavior.
I have mild OCD. Its manifestations are usually unnoticeable to other people, and generally don’t interfere with the ordinary function of my life, but occasionally lead to my engaging in behaviors that no ordinary person would consider worthwhile. The single most extreme manifestation, which still stands out in my memory, was a time when I was playing a video game, and saved my game file, then, doubting my own memory that I had saved it, did it again… and again… and again… until I had saved at least seven times, each time convinced that I couldn’t yet be sure I had saved it “enough.”
Afterwards, I was horrified at my own actions, because what I had just done was too obviously crazy to just handwave away.
I used to do that a lot. I still have to fight the urge to save repeatedly when nothing has changed.
My obsessive compulsions are mostly mental though so it has had so little an impact on my interactions with others that I don’t think it counts as a disorder.
I think it may depend a lot on how well the action fits into your schema for reasonable behavior.
For me it fits my schema of reasonable behavior but also into my schema of “things other people may not like doing for which I don’t consider them irrational”.
Of course, I would rarely consider using a dollar as a bookmark. That would require stopping reading the book once I started it.
It depends on the context, in particular, whether the situation is one where you “must” have a good reason for your actions. Your reaction is appropriate for most ordinary situations; his is appropriate for the context he’s talking about (doing a different movement than than the one you intended in a chess game) and other high stakes situations (blurting an answer you know is wrong in an examination, saying/doing something awkward on a date, making a risky movement driving your car…)
his is appropriate for the context he’s talking about (doing a different movement than than the one you intended in a chess game) and other high stakes situations (blurting an answer you know is wrong in an examination, saying/doing something awkward on a date, making a risky movement driving your car…)
I experience horrible feelings when I humiliate myself or put myself at risk. This phenomenon seems to occur independently of whether I have a good causal model for why I did those things.
That is an interesting observation. For my part I do not experience horror in those circumstances, merely curiosity and uncertainty.
I think it may depend a lot on how well the action fits into your schema for reasonable behavior.
I have mild OCD. Its manifestations are usually unnoticeable to other people, and generally don’t interfere with the ordinary function of my life, but occasionally lead to my engaging in behaviors that no ordinary person would consider worthwhile. The single most extreme manifestation, which still stands out in my memory, was a time when I was playing a video game, and saved my game file, then, doubting my own memory that I had saved it, did it again… and again… and again… until I had saved at least seven times, each time convinced that I couldn’t yet be sure I had saved it “enough.”
Afterwards, I was horrified at my own actions, because what I had just done was too obviously crazy to just handwave away.
I used to do that a lot. I still have to fight the urge to save repeatedly when nothing has changed.
My obsessive compulsions are mostly mental though so it has had so little an impact on my interactions with others that I don’t think it counts as a disorder.
For me it fits my schema of reasonable behavior but also into my schema of “things other people may not like doing for which I don’t consider them irrational”.
Of course, I would rarely consider using a dollar as a bookmark. That would require stopping reading the book once I started it.
It depends on the context, in particular, whether the situation is one where you “must” have a good reason for your actions. Your reaction is appropriate for most ordinary situations; his is appropriate for the context he’s talking about (doing a different movement than than the one you intended in a chess game) and other high stakes situations (blurting an answer you know is wrong in an examination, saying/doing something awkward on a date, making a risky movement driving your car…)
I experience horrible feelings when I humiliate myself or put myself at risk. This phenomenon seems to occur independently of whether I have a good causal model for why I did those things.
OTOH, a good causal model may sometimes enable you to take action so as to not do that thing again.