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The water filtration system is broken in my county...
...So I haven't drank any tap water in 2 days.
I'm a bit dehydrated, as I've only had about half a litre since they broke.

o_0 When did this happen?

edit : Lol, I thought you said country. I was thinking I've been drinking water for the past days and heard nothing about it, lol.

I go to school 1 county away, so I drank loads there on Friday.
My brother drank from my bottle of water... so I'm a bit stuck there.
I'm feeling a little light-headed and my lips are really dry but they say they'll have it fixed tonight so I'm gonna drink a load tomorrow morning.

QFT, because my dad would QFT this. xd
In my opinion, hitting the filtration centre with a wrecking ball isn't going to solve much except for the horrible colour they painted the walls.

1. Read.
2. Discover computer games.
3. Study.
4. Work.

Babel and I recommend Terry Pratchett.

Well, I've only read the first and last pages of this thread, but this is interesting. I also have OCD and possibly Aspergers.

As far as the OCD is concerned, I have scrupulosity, but in my case it's all about obsessing over whether I'm a "good person" or a "bad person," and whether I deserve to feel more guilty for things I've done wrong, or whether I'm being too hard and unforgiving on myself. Believe me when I tell you, that debate in my head can go around and around for hours and suck all the energy right out of me.

I don't really have any "compulsions" like washing my hands or arranging thing symmetrically. However, like Behatzlacha, I can't eat any food that has been touched by anyone else. I can't share a drinking straw with someone else, or drink from the same glass or bottle.

It's not so much "germs" or "dirt" that I'm afraid of, it's more like the very essence of another person. I'm horrified of other people's bodily fluids. The very fact that they have been through the insides of another person's body makes them the most impure and disgusting things I can imagine. I don't even like being touched by most people.

As for the Aspergers, my psychiatrist says I'm basically on the knife-edge between having it and not having it. I have a lot of the tendencies, but I also have a lot of tendencies that contraindicate it.

I've always thought that Judaism is very suited to people with OCD. A lot of the mitzvot seem to be designed specifically as OCD-ish rituals. Things like the precise number of fringes to put on a talis, and the number of times to wrap the tefilin around the fingers, hand, and arm... I can imagine that a lot of highly-observant Jews throughout history (who would probably be diagnosed with OCD if they were alive today) must have found comfort in things like that.

I'm sure some of you have heard the theory that Ashkenazi Jews have the highest average IQ of any ethnic group. If something is different about our brains that gives us a higher IQ, maybe it also predisposes us to things like OCD and certain kinds of autism. Everybody knows the stereotype of the "neurotic Jew."

Lumanny, what kind of medication are you on, if you don't mind me asking? I'm taking Effexor XR, which is an SSRI antidepressant (like Prozac), but over the past decade I've tried practically everything a psychiatrist could think to throw at me. Effexor is the only thing that seems to help me. It definitely helps my depression, and at the high doses that I take, it's been shown to help with OCD.

My lovely mix of OCD, which seems to be halfway between yours and Lummany's, and Manic Depression leaves me in an awkward predicament. I also suffer from boughts of scrupulosity, but it's often balanced out by my insanity during hypomanic episodes or cancelled by the dark and dreary depression days.

Divash mentioned OCD and religion in the first few pages, I think.

And we are more likely to develop mental disorders, along with other genetic ones. It's because we exist as an inclusive society, mainly. The lack of fresh genes means we get almost concentrated. So we have a high IQ, usually, but we can also expect more genetic illnesses as we don't have the variety found in other ethnic groups.

I tried out Lithium but didn't like it. I could never drink enough water to balance the side effects. Now I take nothing but good food, exercise, vitamin supplements and Oxytetracycline. Please don't ask me why they force feed me antibiotics...