I don't intend on taking any diagnoses mentioned here as professional; I just have been noticing/having some odd, annoying rituals, and I was just curious.
Here are some of the "rituals," so to speak, that make me wonder if I have obsessive-compulsive disorder:
Every night before I lay in my bed, I set my alarm clock for the same time every night (during the school week), yet I constantly feel the need to press the alarm time button to (in my mind) make sure that the time is right (AM and not PM) and that the alarm is set. Sometimes I feel the need to rapidly press the button and look at the time shown on the clock a certain way. And I can't stop and just try to fall asleep until all that is done satisfactorily. I'm trying to break that (or at least reduce it), but it feels kind of awkward when I do so.
Whenever I exit my vehicle, I shut off the headlights and lock both doors. They're obviously locked/turned off right? Not in my mind; I always have to quickly glance over from the driver's side door lock to the passenger's side lock and then to the headlight switch, and sometimes I do that more than once and I also sometimes go back and check when I've walked a few feet from my vehicle.
Often, when I lock up my house and drive off in my vehicle, I keep thinking to myself, "Uhh, did I lock it all up? Is the front door locked?" when it most certainly is. I often feel like I should drive back home and check just to make sure, but I'm usually driving to school, and I have a short amount of time to get there, so I just cope with it.
I appreciate any help!
I have Aspergers, Tourettes, and mild anxiety, by the way.
26 Jan 2013, 10:36 pm
