me too well if it doesnt get folded out of the dryer well when it finally comes out it gets rewashed

We just moved into our new house in October and the holes in the walls, like you said, the pictures have to hung just right... There are so many that some of them I had to go back and put toothpaste in to hide them....

Being neat and clean? Well, there is a difference in that and being excessive. If it makes people or family uncomfortable...then it is excessive.
If it consumes you then it is a problem.
I used to be that way. Nothing could be out of place. All clothes were hanging just so in the closet. My drawers had to be in order by item and NEAT!
Pictures just right. Not a dirty dish in the sink or on the cabinet. My cabinets and pot cabinet was perfectly fit and by order. Can goods were all by size and item. A fuzz on the carpet would drive me crazy. Carpet lines had to be straight.
My plate couldn't even have my food touching for goodness sakes.
(I'm still kinda that way).
It was when friends starting telling me that they were afraid to touch anything or use something that I came to know I had a problem. It was said that you could eat off my floor.
I was so bad that when my smoking friends or family was there I would immediately empty and clean the ashtray after just one flip of an ash or a butt was placed there.(I was a smoker as well) I would carry the ashtray all over where I went. Keeping it clean throughout.
I was constantly doing laundry or wiping something off.
Thank goodness I began to see that I was compulsive and quit making everyone around me uncomfortable. Don't get me wrong...I still have it to a small degree. My sister is that way now. She makes us all crazy. Her kids are miserable.
They go to school all day and as soon as they get home it is clean your rooms and do your chores and do your laundry then you can have your time. Her son works and goes to school. He still has to do everything she tells him before he can even go to work or do it when he gets home. I feel sorry for them.

Kat

ive got OCD, im rather embaressed to say. i only have it mild i think, but it does drive me up the wall.

with me its certain rituals i have to do before i go to bed, like check my phone is next to me, my inhaler etc etc, and ill check it once and its all there, but i will do it over and over again for like half hour, so annoying. im not so bad in the day, but at night im terrible, but my anxiety at night is always at its worst, and i know why it is. basically until my sleep meds and sedatives kick in, i will keep checking over and over.

i think if you have ocd, you will know it.

so to the OP, i think if you think youve got it you have, and after reading your post it does sound like you do have a form of ocd, how severe i dont know.

Thanks for that post. I have anxiety also. I take lexapro, and if my chest tightens up i will take a xanex, if I dont then it feels like i am having a heart attack. Sometimes I stress over the litte things, and i feel bad about it, but then if I dont pick it up, or wash it, or vacuum it, then it worries the sh*t out of me until i do it.... I have never discussed the OCD with my dr, but my next visit I think i will because like i said, i have been this way for a while now, but I think i am getting worse..., and I do not want to be this way, this bad at this point in my life. My kids are at a age where we do everything together, and we have fun all the time. We are constantly laughing and joking with each other, and i have other things to occupy my time then constantly washing a cup or two in the sink, or if i dont i will be thinking about it.....

hi,

things like valium, lorasepam help me, but they dont prescribe them long term, so my anxiety and ocd is never ending, and the panic attacks i can truly say are terrible. ocd is very annoying, and anxiety and panic attacks, but the doctors i see, dont seem to give a **** about that, they only give a **** about my depression, and i say but this ocd and panic attacks are worse than the depression. they dont get it!!!

I also have suffered with anxiety. To the point of energency room visits by car or ambulance. That is the scariest thing I have indured. I truly thought I was dying. It seems that everything they put me on made it worse? I suffered anxiety with many of the scripts. More so.
It was with Visterol that I actually got relief.
I also have those rituals that I go through. Such as checking and rechecking the doors being locked when I KNOW that I already locked them. Making sure everything is off and making sure three or four times before I lock the truck door to see if I have the keys. EVEN AFTER I LOCK IT I CHECK AGAIN! Jeeze.
Now that I see it ....I do these things before I leave the house all the time. Can't forget something......
Kat

panic attacks are terrifying, i get them most nights, and with me im worst at night because something traumatic happened to me at night. about a week ago, i bought a little book with about 100 pages in, and within 2 days the book was full, i kept writing over and over again the same thing, even though i had wrote it down a hundred times before. no matter how much you check you just cant stop doing it. its horrible. like i said im worse on a night, the only way i can stop it, is by knocking myself out with sleeping pills and sedatives, so im incapable of checking anymore.

Yeah, it's obsessive. But, I wouldn't obsess over it if I was you. Get what help you can with your problems and pray about it. And maybe you could try the mind of matter method with it. If you could make yourself not mind it, then it wouldn't matter. Your close-the-doors method sounds like a good start to all of it.

You might want to try some other doctors and get some other opinions and try some other methods of treatment. One thing I did when I got real wrapped around the axle was I ate bagels. Believe it or not, it got me to feeling better from being depressed. Might be worth a try and it wouldn't cost much, at least!

Also, reading the Purpose Filled Life helped me a little bit. It gave me a different and a better perspective on some things, I think. I think you can find those books at Wal Mart or on the web various places.

Good luck to you.

this is just me, if someone told me to stop doing it, or like you just said, i wouldnt obcess over it, that would make me worse, because it would increase my anxiety, and the higher my anxiety is the worst my ocd is. thats just me. jmo

If you're living a trauma again and again, that's like a symptom of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It's something you want to talk to your physician about. I would work with professionals to deal with your collection of problems. You might also want to talk to your local clergy, too. If there's a christian church near your house, I'd advise talking with one of their preachers. Good luck to you.

i dont think a preacher could help me, he couldnt take away what happened to me, he cant take away all my physical illnesses and pain, and emotional problems, i see doctors but there as been little improvement, infact since i started seeing doctors my list of problems, like ocd, panic attacks, as gone up.