Ever since I was little Ive wanted to be patient in the hospital, especially one with casts on. I think I would want to be a patient because of all the attention they recieve and of course I DO NOT ENJOY PAIN AT ALL. I have never really been in the hospital and all the times I have been hurt Ive really enjoyed the attention Ive gotten. Im jealous of all the people I see in casts for some reason and wish I was in a cast. I was diagnosd with OCD in 1999. Any suggestions for me?
Kat, lol if you look around you will see a lot of us have some very weird obsessions. Mine are crickets, My wife, well we wont go there, (just kidding Kim) I think in one since, all of us enjoy to be pampered, I do however think yours is more of an obsession. Like Kim said you need to tell your Doctor about this if you haven't done so already. If you are not on meds, talk to your DR. about that to. Take care.
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Hello Kat,
your obsession with being in a cast and in the hospital. doesn't sound like an OCD type of obsession, but of course I don't know you well enough to really know this.
I have OCD too, and happen to know a lot of people with it (as a psych major, and member of support groups), and OCD, as you probably know, usually involves obsessing about something that causes anxiety, and then relieving the anxiety through compulsions. My OCD symptoms have involved such things as feeling responsible for things and then having to check on them, or being afraid of bed things going to happen and having to perform rituals to fend them off, etc...
BUT... I have also had another kind of obsession, that I don't think (I could be wrong, who knows) is part of the OCD. Not really an obsession in the snese of OCD, but rather like things I would really "get into"... and yes, it was usually something that would get me a lot of attention... fantasizing about being on stage and famous and my parents would be in the audience and be proud of me, or fantasizing about having a certain illness or other and everybody would see how well I dealt with it...or, sometimes it would be something like a movie or a style of music or something, that i would just get so enthusiastic about and would want everybody else to feel the same about, or rather: To see how strongly _I_ feel about it... And these "things", these phases, these fantasies, have never felt like OCD. The biggest difference maybe being that I really ENJOYED fantasizing about these things. OCD type obsessions, on the other side, never felt good, they were burdensome. Just wondering if maybe you can relate?
Hello Kat,
your obsession with being in a cast and in the hospital. doesn't sound like an OCD type of obsession, but of course I don't know you well enough to really know this.
I have OCD too, and happen to know a lot of people with it (as a psych major, and member of support groups), and OCD, as you probably know, usually involves obsessing about something that causes anxiety, and then relieving the anxiety through compulsions. My OCD symptoms have involved such things as feeling responsible for things and then having to check on them, or being afraid of bed things going to happen and having to perform rituals to fend them off, etc...
BUT... I have also had another kind of obsession, that I don't think (I could be wrong, who knows) is part of the OCD. Not really an obsession in the snese of OCD, but rather like things I would really "get into"... and yes, it was usually something that would get me a lot of attention... fantasizing about being on stage and famous and my parents would be in the audience and be proud of me, or fantasizing about having a certain illness or other and everybody would see how well I dealt with it...or, sometimes it would be something like a movie or a style of music or something, that i would just get so enthusiastic about and would want everybody else to feel the same about, or rather: To see how strongly _I_ feel about it... And these "things", these phases, these fantasies, have never felt like OCD. The biggest difference maybe being that I really ENJOYED fantasizing about these things. OCD type obsessions, on the other side, never felt good, they were burdensome. Just wondering if maybe you can relate?
Well I used to have the "i gotta check the door 100 times to make sure its locked" OCD and now I have been treated and am doing fine. I think the reason why i want to be in a cast and in a hospital is certainly not because I enjoy pain, but because 1.- I find hospitals and the medical world fascinating and 2.- I want to gain lots of attention from the medical world as well as my personal world. I am certainly an average person and do not excell above the rest in anything so although I get attention, not as much as I want. I think I may have a slight form of Munchausen's syndrome...and yes Ive gone into the ER with slight sprains trying to play them up as much as possible to try and get a cast. I enjoy thinking about this "obsession" but after a while the thoughts plague my mind when i KNOW there is no way I can get a cast or whatever and I eventually start feeling ashamed of myself for these thoughts
Wierd obsession I need advice 
no real suggestions for you, but have you informed your doctor of this particular obsession? are you in therapy? 
