Leaving the gas on
I'm getting better with this but it was at the stage whereby I would go out of the flat and get to the end of the street then come back and check that the oven knobs were off and items like hair dryers were unplugged in case they "switched themselves on" and burnt the place down. If I was far enough away I would feel that the flat burning down was inevitable and would stop worrying but once got about a mile before convincing myself that the gas was DEFINITELY on...

As a child I had a fear of needing a shit when away from the house. The result was that I always became anxious, got diarhhoea and had to go to the toilets in shops. In the proper customer toilets, though, not just between the aisles. I also exhibited a few OCD-lite behaviours such as ensuring that, when tapping my hands or feet, I tapped them both evenly or tapped my right hand/foot (aka the "better" foot) more. If I didn't do this then the tapping would make my left hand/foot stronger than its counterpart which woud be WRONG as I'm right-handed.
( wingpig wish I'd known about liquify eighteen years ago, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 7:18, Reply)