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This stems from a recently posted idea. I have a slight OCD, I go back and forth to my car to make sure its locked as well as the door to my house.
The first part is to identify the problem. For me i do not check a billion times to see if i have my wallet or keys. The problem is locking doors.
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solution. A Programmable speaker that tells you in a calming, but audible, voice that you did all those things. You place the system at the origin of the problem. That would be, for instance, the doorway.
You type into the program a series of sentences. "You locked the door, have a very productive day". Or "your car doors are locked, I love you". You set the speaker volume. For me i would want to be able to hear the message from my doorway to my car and again from my car to my doorway.
They system would have to be able to tell if you locked doors or picked up various items. It would come with a series of small rfid tags that you could place in various items. Say I do forget my wallet as i leave the house; the system would know I locked the door but it would also know that the wallet did not pass through the door way. The pleasant voice would then tell you about the issue.
Upon opening up the box you would receive. A wireless speaker (that you could connect to an ac power source), and the computer that I imagine to be a simple touch screen that you could mount to you wall. A series of rfid tags that you could place in your wallet etc..
no idea if they are alike - just being helpful...
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[po, Jan 28 2008]
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+ for the fact that any burglar would also hear the message and be deterred. |
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//But generally, stop trying to drive your life from your conscious mind - it's difficult, inefficient and not the right tool for the job.// |
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Wise words - it's like running up stairs, if you do it while concentrating on what your feet are doing it's actually quite tricky - let your subconscious take control and everything becomes smooth and effortless. |
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tool? what tool? people have a tool? why don't I have one? |
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damn, I forgot to drink my tea and now its cold. |
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You shouldn't be drinking tea at this
time of night. Don't forget to have a
little p before bed. |
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With regard to OCD, it always puzzled
me, and I did an experiment a few years
back. I decided to see if I could induce
a sort of OCD in myself. I started by
waiting 'til I was at the car, and then
telling myself I wasn't sure if I'd set the
right mode on the burglar alarm (if I set
it wrong, the dog triggers it during the
day). Of course, I knew I had, but I
asked myself how I knew I had, and how
I could be sure I hadn't mis-set it as I
left. Then I'd go back and check it. |
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At first it was a very artficial situation -
I'd be confident I'd set it correctly, and
would have to try to persuade myself
that I wasn't sure. After a few days,
though, I found myself thinking 'well,
actually, you can't be sure', and I'd
actually have some motivation to go
and check it. |
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After a couple of weeks, I got bored
with this experiment, and stopped
trying to make myself unsure about the
alarm. But then, when I just wanted to
go to work, I found I really *did* have a
nagging doubt. I reasoned that, after
spending a couple of weeks making
myself go back and check the alarm, it
might have messed up my routine, and
it really would be embarrassing if I'd
mis-set the alarm as a result of this
dumb experiment. So, I'd go back and
check the alarm in earnest. |
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After another few days, I realized that
my experiment had worked. Even
though I knew it was an experiment and
that I'd been trying to make myself
worry, I really couldn't leave the house
without going back to check the alarm.
I even tried singing myself a little "I've
set the alarm correctly today" song as I
set the alarm, to make myself
remember (when I got to the car) that
I'd set it correctly. Absolutely no effect. |
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It was really weird. I don't know how
similar this "induced OCD" was to "real"
OCD, but it was very odd. Whatever
logical steps I took, some bit of my
brain would always find a reason why I
needed to go back and check it. (Once,
I tried photographing the display on the
alarm with my camera phone as I set it,
so I could look at the photo when I got
to the car. But then I thought 'am I sure
I didn't do this yesterday, and I've mis-
set the alarm today?'). |
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It was a very interesting experience. |
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Eventually, I got out of the cycle. I told
myself that, even if I had mis-set the
alarm, it wasn't the end of the world -
the dog would set the alarm off during
the day, the alarm company would call
my contact person, they'd call me, and
I'd go home and sort it out. So, I still
had the uncertainty, but didn't act on it.
(It was very difficult to resist.)
After about three days (during which I
was expecting a call at any time,
despite having been very careful to
'remember' setting the alarm) the
obsession went away. |
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I have no idea if my experience bears
any relation to 'real' OCD, but it was
very interesting. Based on this, I'm not
sure if a technological solution would
work - how can you be sure the
software on your OCD-computer
doesn't have a glitch? |
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interesting! thats about the first time in months that I've read a long anno. |
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OCD happens to me every once in a while, but when it does its very frustrating. I would place an rfid tag in my back pack. Tell the system to say, "You have your back pack, your wallet, your phone your keys, the door is locked have a brilliant day" |
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Would that work? I ask only because my
attempt at a similar solution
(photographing the alarm after I'd set it)
didn't work - it was bizarre, because
(logically) it should have worked. It's all
very curious. I'd be interested to know if
you've tried a similar solution, and if it
worked. |
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So, not OCD dissolved in water then... |
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I can't believe you did that, Max. It strikes me as a very dangerous experiment - minds can be rather fragile. |
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Last time I checked, I no longer have OCD. Just a second... |
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No, still don't have it. Just a second... |
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//It strikes me as a very dangerous
experiment - minds can be rather
fragile.// Yes, but it's also interesting
to try to understand the ways in which
they can go wrong. What was bizarre
was that I couldn't really imagine -
either before or after the experiment -
what OCD would feel like; and yet
during the experiment, I couldn't really
imagine not feeling anxious in an
OCDish way. |
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However, one thing about psychological
experiments is that self-
experimentation doesn't really count for
much - perception is everything. I'd be
interested to know if my experience
bears any relation to Antegrity's true
OCD. |
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//No, still don't have it. Just a second...//
Excellent! |
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How is this very different from my idea, the one you are probably referring to with "This stems from a recently posted idea."?
Your difference seems only to be that you've left out the option of purchasing the extra "take it with you" notification feature i included. Oh, and you replaced my LCD readout with a speaker. :) |
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I looked at my watch, now am i sure of what date i saw on the lcd readout on the lock? This idea has nothing in common with your idea ericscottf. |
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Throw in blue tooth technology with my idea and you can have your phone remind you of your present situation. |
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My "base" package was where you'd to remember. as listed in my idea, there's the extended package keyfob option which will tell you what happened most recently. I left bluetooth out because i think it is just in things these days so things can "have bluetooth". |
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Why do I keep coming back to this idea? |
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No, I know, it's because there's a full stop at the end of the idea's title, even though it's not a sentence. Phew! For a moment there I thought I might be obsessive. |
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I don't see any full stop at the end of
the title.... have you checked again to
see if it's still there? |
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// in worries that the ketchup bottle or the
can of peas may have trace amounts of the
cashiers urine on the label.// Yet the
fields in which the peas and tomatoes
grew will have been peed on by many even
stranger forms of wildlife. And if you eat
organic food....<shudder>. |
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...it'll be organic urine. |
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Quite. None of that nasty zinc- or
aluminium-based urine. |
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Interesting idea, but it doesn't solve OCD completely. There are so many different ways someone has OCD, and this speaker can't help some. This idea may work for this particular OCD, but not OCD in general. |
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For instance, my OCD is whenever I microwave something, the time always has to end with 3, 6, or 9. How could this invention in any way help with my OCD? |
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We could just make a microwave that wouldn't stop unless the counter is on a multiple of three. |
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While we're sharing, I write "7" on things with my finger quite a lot. Fix that! |
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<reaches for secateurs>Which finger?</rfs> |
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I don't really see how your having to end the time on a microwave with a certain number really amount to an OCD that greatly affects your life. |
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If the thing says to microwave for 1:30 I hit 1:31 because i know its taking that magnetron a bit to fire up. In fact I have found that not ending microwave times on 0 or 5 makes cooking food more entertaining. |
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5 or 5.0000000001 or 4.999999999. What ever will the food taste like, I DON'T KNOW THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME. |
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Is there an opposite of OCD? If so, I have that. |
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DCD? - Don't Care Disorder
LSS? - Lazy Slob Syndrome |
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We should get our own acronym and support groups. On second thought, forget it, sounds like a hassle. |
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