Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Hi all,
I recently wrote the post below and afterwards I didn't give in to the OCD and made good progress. However the persons house that I wanted to check; I ended up talking to them about OCD yesterday and since the urge to check for the thing that I may or may not have seen is back even though I brought back everything I took. I have an urge to ask a question which sounds really stupid. The fact is that I listed what i took and brought it back. i dont even know if i really did see something on the floor and in a conversation yesterday i just said that wen i was at his house it was bugging me that i though i may have seen something it could have been nothing. The silly question i want to ask is "nearly two weeks ago did i leave anything on your floor near your fireplace". the urge came back after the person reassured me that i had left nothing in his car yesterday.
Should i give in to temptation or not. is it normal for OCD to go back to the temptation when i thought i had moved on?
Regards
Nigel
"Hi All,
I have checking OCD in terms of the fear of losing things. I posted on here to say that I was having a bit of a bad time yesterday. What happened was I went to a house which makes me feel really anxious for the following reasons:
- they have noticed me checking and it has affected how they treat me and intern my confidence
- if they see me checking they dont understand and i feel upset for days
Although i was doing better over recent weeks to go to this particular house was like military precision in terms of double checking what i had with me, getting a friend to check and listing everything twice. when i was there i did check and wasnt sure if i was noticed and when i got back i had everything i took.
However i turned to look back into the living room of the house and saw something white on the floor. because someone was looking i didnt look back again. i remember thinking that there may not be something there it may hae been my imagination or in the corner of my eye or the light or something. People on here told me not to ask the household as this would feed my OCD. I haven't asked and i did start to feel better late last night but again today i feel bad. I keep thinking what if there was something important of value that i missed and i dropped it. the image of what i thought i saw is groing in my memory in size and shape and now i feel like its unclear as to if it was just my imagination or whthere i saw something. i think i just saw something and if i had looked back it would have been nothing interms of just the way the light caught me.
I really dont know and would like to know your experiences of whether you thing you have dropped something and when you look there is nothing. It's easily done on a patterned surface or a shiny surface but this was a matt red carpet.
please let me know if you have experienced this!
Thank you
Nigel"
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