I seriously think I have ocd… I used to excessively wash my hands (they became red and chapped), and now I count and organize things.

ocd things I do:
count random things. (colors in a room, colors on people’s clothes, lines dividing lanes on the road, windows on a building, etc. it has to be an even number in the end or I count again.)
Organize little things such as: things on my desk, books on my bookshelf (from smallest to largest), I put things in alphabetical order, etc.
I clean off my eraser. I’m so frickin serious. Like if it has a mark on it from erasing, I erase on something clean to remove the mark.

I do about more things, but too many to list.

Unless you have horrible anxiety (that takes up an hour of your day everyday) with these quirks, you don’t have OCD. OCD is a real disorder and is a lot different then quirks.

I have been diagnosed with OCD and so here it is:
Obsessions:
FEARING DEATH- that’s the big one because it causes all my compulsions
fearing that I’m going to hurt someone
and also you know how some people have numbers with OCD well I have letters. Letters non stop go though my mind. It may not sound bad but it’s horrible. It go so bad that my doctor had to put me on medicine.

Compulsions:
washing my hands about 20 times a day
holding my breath in ‘contaminated’ areas
having to touch objects just right
having to place objects just right
constantly erasing words because they ‘don’t look right’
only stepping on certain ‘good’ spaces on the floor
things have to be symmetrical (get hit in one arm have to hit myself in the other)
no sharing food or drinks. period.
doors have to be all the way open or all the way closed

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