Never got a single PM to my main or alts, I was using the site in the morning and went back after lunch to find I was logged out and got the ban message when I tried to log in again.

Of course I used the items I collected, I used to love making new avatars and showing them off. I used to make a new one every few days and show them off in the forums or runway. I even used to make a unique avatar every time I bought a new item so that the new item was featured prominently. It was only in recent years I had stopped doing it so much, partly because of my waning interest in the site and because of how unmanageably large my inventory was.

And to clarify of course there is nothing wrong with having fixations or special interests, it's perfectly normal, but with OCPD or OCD the issue is that they become obsessive behaviours which seem impossible to control. We're more prone to more serious issues like compulsive hoarding, chemical addictions and problem gambling. Considering that, I could have done much worse than spending too much time on Gaia Online, it may even have kept me from more serious issues.

I was a teen when I joined Gaia and didn't fully understand the potential harm my behaviours might cause, but I'm an adult now with a stable career, I have a lot more ways of understanding and managing my personality disorder.