Oh yeah- bunny has OCD!!! Sometimes bunny drums like Moonie, but would rather play a groove like "Green Onions". I am OCD in trying to make certain that I keep impeccable time, but also not sounding like a drum machine. bunny is OCD in other ways that would make this a non-family forum...

I could have posted this in run-on sentences to make me seem even more OCD...

OCD is a disorder that is centered on unwanted thoughts and feelings. It is these unwelcome feelings and thoughts that cause the behavioral activity. I doubt very seriously that a drummer plays contrary to his own ideas or his own feel.

You are mistaken in your comparitive analysis here. OCD has naught to do with drumming. Fact is, it would be a huge barrier to the drummer.

I do have a bit of OCD after I do something stupid. I left my front door open for a full day once (we lived in the 'hood). Luckily, nothing happened to my house. After that day, I found myself going back to my front door three or more times re-checking whether or not I locked it. There were times I would be five minutes on my journey and turn back around just to make certain I locked my door.

Now that I don't live in the 'hood, I don't find myself doing that any longer. Maybe the fact I don't have to worry about my house getting robbed has something to do with that...

so thats whats wrong with me i'll have to talk to my dr pysco son ( hes just passed his dissertation) and see if he concurs

I didn't peek at the thread content before answering in the affirmative _ and then had to laugh at the results of 100%.

Not as sure about the compulsive portion _ but I am certainly compulsively obsessed with rhythmic patterns.

I always attributed it to spending my formative years in a house very close to the RR tracks _ less than 100' away _ the trains would go by three times a day _ with the crossing having at least one loose spike _ creating chugging rhythmic patterns with roaming accents.

The other result is: l love trains _ and all train songs.

Ohm

Rogersling is right, there is a clinical/psychological component to full-blown OCD. I'm just talking about the compulsive, repetitive behavior symptoms. I see a lot of similarities with drumming.

The symptoms I'm talking about show up in other ways too, for instance: The logos on all my drum heads must be at the 12 o'clock position as I face them, or it makes me nuts. I have to set-up my drums the exact same way each and every time to within millimeters. I fuss over it. Stuff like that. I just see similarities between drumming and some OCD related symptoms. I have no idea what it means, just that it's an interesting correlation.

John

This is a very interesting and thought-provoking question, John.I think that what we should be careful of however, is the penchant for people to self-diagnose. I too am guilty of this. I count to myself when doing numerous daily tasks. I feel that my day will be bad if my schedule is drastically interupted. I check and double-check routines (locking doors too, bunnyman).If anything, this obsession with counting and perfection hasn't hurt my drumming. On the contrary, I can't wait to practise or gig! The rest of my band members kid about my extensive notes in my list of songs and give me a great deal of good-hearted ridicule if I make a mistake. "What! YOU made a mistake!" I don't know if I have OCD or not. I have never been professionally diagnosed.What I do know is that I love what I'm doing with all my heart! Isn't that what really matters?

> Isn't that what really matters?

You bet, Salty! I'm just shooting the schizznitz about an observation I've made. Carries no more weight than any idle speculation. Food for thought kind of stuff. I'm not looking for anyone to agree with me, I only want to hear what others think.

John

add me to the club....

mike