I have a son who suffers from OCD.
We have always just gone with it and he copes quite well – it’s not the type of OCD that involves having to turn off a light switch a certain amount of times or having to do a ritual before leaving the house.
It’s the whole ‘clean’ form of OCD – not cleaning the house but making sure hands are clean, not eating messy food such as ribs or finger foods.
He’s now 18 and has concept of what’s going on.
I’ve always tried to make him aware of over usage of toilet paper but ‘it’s just him and what he does’. He knows what works for him and also what he can’t cope with.
I can’t really change his habit , not after all this time…. can I?
I’ve always know he goes through quite a lot of loo roll but it seems to have gone to the extreme. He’s in the loo for hours and I means hours and as a household (of 4) we go through 8 rolls plus a week and most of that is my son.
We have a three storey house with a toilet on each floor. If he uses all of it on his floor, he will then use the other toilets until all the rolls have gone.
Even went on Amazon the other day and ordered 32 loo rolls and have put some as back up – just in case we run out.
He says he just doesn’t feel ‘clean’ – even tried the wet wipe type toilet tissues…. but that’s not right either.
What’s the normal amount of loo roll that is meant to be used per visit ??
Any people with OCD with the same issue?
Is this a normal ‘OCD’ trait? I’ve never really thought about it before.
Being Betty 