@Putridity: Really, when you take violence out of the equation, as you say, then it becomes irrelevant to the diagnosis. Which makes it much easier to understand people, as they no longer fear you will punch them in the face for something they say. All it really does is make people more honest, ironically.
And since I don’t fear violence…. wrong on the avoidance mechanism. I’ve had clients take swings at me when I keep pushing. Really, so long as no one shoots me, I’ll be good. SO I wouldn’t have let him off with “lets agree to disagree”.
And besides, you guys aren’t actually attacking my diagnosis, you are attacking the way about which I go to make my diagnosis. My opinion still stands.

Hmmm.. OCD doesn’t really match up too much with how I have you pictured so far. Strange associations with numbers may occur, but I wouldn’t guess it to be an obsessive compulsive disorder.

I’ll use Tesla as an example. Tesla’s OCD was developed as a for m of self-punishment for himself, due to guilt over seeing (Some Tesla biographers say causing. I don’t think so, it doesn’t fit his other behavior.) his younger brother die. Confidence/self-esteem and OCD typically don’t run parallel to one another. Confidence usually alludes to comfortable with your self, where as OCD (usually, everyone has their anomalies.) usually hints at a slightly more stressed out consciousness, with heavy insecurities concerning their self.

You might just be holding strange associations with numbers/ types of numbers. Maybe some small trauma back when you were in your math class that proliferated in your subconscious, due to hormone imbalance or something else that happened at the same time.
I have issues with standardized tests for instance. Whenever I take one, I’m incredibly time inefficient, because I stop every five questions and look back over trying to decipher a pattern.
Around the first time I took a standardized test, my father was absent due to his being in rehab for alcohol abuse. I was a middle schooler, I began to look for patterns and other things of the sort, in an effort to provide a sense of order and control to the world around me. I imposed/searched for patterns on/in lots of things, from my writing to conversation to pretty much anything. The only one that stuck, however, was the looking over standardized tests for patterns in the answers.
Its not OCD, its just a minor inconvenience.

….I never took calc three. I suck a big fat one at anything higher than precalc. I barely filled my basic math requirement. Not because I can’t do math… more because I get distracted, and end up staring at the girl across/ next/ below me’s chest like the pig I am.

The pill you were talking about seems like its either a very powerful stress reliever, or maybe an antidepressant. Depending on the type, maybe an antipsychotic. Though there are other ways around it, a pill does take far less effort. It sounds like your son’s OCD is most likely due to hormone imbalance (the bipolar), not an ongoing psychosis. Though pills can work with those too, the goal is to induce relaxation and eliminate anxieties. (Actually, there are a few fascinating studies with placebos being used on psychosis-based OCD with amazing effect. Of course, when you tell them that the pills are fake, the effects can come back, but some of them figure out its just all in their head. Completely irrelevant, but interesting nonetheless.)
…And I have no idea. I think I was talking about dieA most likely not having OCD, using my control based semi-psychosis concerning standardized tests as an example.

Oh, I completely missed the phobia bit of your post dieA, my bad. I probably should have read more into your post, rather than skim it. whoops.

And it is true that un-rationalized, ill-rationalized, or even over-rationalized trauma can cause facial tics or OCD.
It just varies a lot.
There are literally hundreds upon thousands of reasons why the guy whose face twitches every time you say “salt” could be twitching. These could range from childhood trauma, too subconscious association, to even a bad experience concerning a salt shaker in a restaurant when his wife left him. Who knows?

I maintain that I don’t think you have OCD, just maybe a semi-psychosis concerning numbers. OCD would have you acting (or attempting too act) on the world around you, in the hopes of maintaing control and order, and thus sating your psychosis. That you become nauseated at the worst of it, what with the prime numbers, shows a more inwardly directed control issue. OCD can have its roots in control-based traumas (Watching your little brother die, wife get raped, etc.), which end with the subject attempting to impose his/her order at all costs on the world around them, or with an attempt to punish oneself for the previous lack of control. If prevented from exercising their routine, the result often can be inward, but is usually more outward in nature, to force the obstacle (a person, whatever) to allow them to carry on. Usually manipulation of some sort, like a complete public breakdown, or excessive shouting and repeated mantras.
But… no nausea really. At least, not with most OCDs. Who knows, you may have an extremely mild form. But still…. their are certain personality traits that link up with OCD, and confidence isn’t one of them. (Again, usually. People are in no way uniform.) I mean, the root cause of these disorders is a general lack of confidence. (Alright, I said control, but control and confidence are damn near synonyms when talking about any compulsive disorder.) I mean, inflicting a loss of control on yourself for loss of control on the world around you doesn’t usually occur. A more common response would be imposing even tighter control on yourself, or trying like hell to keep your environment to conform to you. (Some really quite interesting cases of OCDs getting so frustrated a deprivement that they actually destroy their environments. i.e., burning down asylums. Which is why deprivement isn’t recommended for really heavy cases of emotional trauma OCD, but I digress again.)
And nyokki, if you were really into the maths to that degree, it would make sense that physics would throw you off, at least as far as the like-personalities theory goes… Most mathematicians just have an inherent understanding of whats going, and using alternative theory to explain it to them would really only serve to confuse them….
Oh, and phobias… phobias are trickier than tics in their own right. Don’t get me started on specific examples. Phobias are usually the result of internalized predispositions towards things combined or supplemented by traumas.

@...ColombianMonkey: AHEM.
HABLAS INGLES SENOR?

FUCK!

Alright…. I think we’ve learned something today.
Without females updating on this thread regularly, it quickly devolves into atypical /b/ behavior.
Not to say there is anything wrong with that.
Speaking of which…
I’m pretty certain I haven’t been banned. So is /b/ just down for the week?

Sigh. Thread is dead.

@nyokki:SHHHH!
And where the hell is dieA?
Dead serious. I go through all that regurgitative typing on compulsive pathology, and nothing. Nada.
@Luke Magnifico: And so goes the law of undulation.

Name who said it! And no, original poster does not get to claim credit.

@...Putridity: INCORRECT.

@...nyokki:Correct. Congrats, have a hundred internetz.

@...nyokki: It seems like cheating. I meant to test your memory, rather than your computation skillz.