Keyboard OCD?

[jonthai]

So I would like to know some opinion on this. I keep pressing the button Q often because it feels good and I think it's some sort of OCD. What do you think and are there anything to solve this? ( I don't wanna break my button someday)

 

[It'sJaz]

I don't think it will break just from pressing too much, unless perhaps your keyboard is already very old and over-used. Maybe you could use something as a substitute for pressing the Q button, or press another button close to it. What makes you press the button, is it the location of it on the keyboard or the letter? You could use a substitute that replicates that, maybe it will work.

 

[kelden]

It will get worn out eventually, even if you're using it normally, nothing last forever, although even by pressing Q frantically your keyboard will be able to withstand it for years or even decades. Anyway, Why it does feel good for you? Because this key is located at the upper extreme of the QWERTY keyboard? Because you like the touch of the round label over the key's surface? Nice huh, very nice.

 

[Laneorexorcist]

Hmm... I don't really think that this might be necessarily a problem. If you feel that this habit is affecting your life then you should consider on stopping or having a method to do so. But with this one, what's the worst thing that can actually happen? I don't think that your keyboard is going to broke, and if it does you can always buy a new one, I guess.

 

[Sue]

I have never heard of this before. Sounds like it has become as obsession for you. You should work of trying to wean yourself of this habit. Try resisting that urge and doing something else when the urge hits. Why the letter q? Why not any other letter? I wonder what the connection to that particular letter would be. If you hit another letter repeatedly does it give you the same sense?

 

[Norjak71]

I have severe OCD but this one I have never heard of. What do you think causes this? What is the benefit of it in your mind? If you can track down the reasoning of why you think you do it maybe you can stop. Is it something you feel that you have to do or it weirds you out? Sometimes I have little quirks that I do because of OCD like constantly making sure doors are locked and its almost like I have to do it otherwise I can't go to sleep. Is this somewhere along those lines or something you could probably do without?

 

[LovelyLiz]

I don't think there'd be any practical problems to this - I've had keyboards where a key's been pressed so many times that the text had been wiped clean, but was still functional. I think laptop keyboards tend to be more fragile though.


I'd agree with others, that it's important to identify why you do this, but it isn't necessarily that big a deal. I have a few minor habits that strike me as slightly OCD, but which don't negatively impact on me, so I just see them as character quirks. This may well be the same for you.

 

[Agrawr]

Is it how your hand stretches that makes it feel good? It takes a lot of stretching for my hand to reach q. You could try stretching your fingers, bending them back, shaking them, to see if that feels good. When you hit the [ sign, does that feel good? [ is the same as q, but on the other side of the keyboard.

 

[stephonline]

I thought you were going to say that you fear about the keyboard's cleanliness because that is what I do. I clean my keyboard at least twice a day. I can't use public computers because they really freak me out when they are so dirty. It just makes me nervous. I think you like the reaching motion for the Q. That does feel good.

 

[lexinonomous]

I have experienced this in the past and present. I love the feeling of touching a keyboard. I enjoy the clicking feeling it has behind the keys. I'm not entirely sure if this is OCD- but it does match up to an OCD tendency. I've looked into it online and it seems to be a fairly common tendency. I also enjoy the feeling of my fingers making their way into a tight corner, especially if I'm removing some sort of dust.


After doing some research, I found that I have a thing for sensory items. Doing certain things with my fingers causes me to feel a tingling sensation. It feels very similar to goosebumps and excitement. I wish I could remember the name of the actual condition, but it's very common and nothing to worry about. If you were to visit instagram and look up "slime videos" there are a ton of "satisfying" videos that might fall into what you're experiencing.

 

[Rohan Ghosh Dastidar]

I have this tendency to press the SPACEBAR all of the time because the spring sound that the spacebar produces makes me feel good ... Sometimes it really gets irritating -_-"

 

[SubsetOfQuestions]

Reading through these comments, I've now been given a couple new tics. Pressing Q and Spacebar now. Anyway, what I was going to say was I have a tic for pressing A. B, Y, and X on my Xbox controller the equal amount of times. Not only that, but pressing them on the same side. I have to make it top-left: 1, top-center: 1, bottom-left : 1, so on and so forth. I also do this with door hinges. Not usually both doors, but now that I've looked at both doors, I feel I need to do it to both. For people with tourettes here, I'm sorry if I've given you these tics.

 

[Joshua1]

So I would like to know some opinion on this. I keep pressing the button Q often because it feels good and I think it's some sort of OCD. What do you think and are there anything to solve this? ( I don't wanna break my button someday)

I do not think this is OCD, i think its okay to press Q, as long as you can control the urge (at least) to a degree and pressing Q has a purpose.