Amy - sounds like that is OCD, and I'm sorry to hear it's limiting your life and causing you so much distress. Any chance you could tell your gp/ cpn? Might help to get some support for it, and they can't help until you tell them. I know it's hard, the nature of the disorder makes you feel ashamed and stuff of it, but it's not at all unusual
Quiet1 - yep I have a lot of mental compulsions. Making certain noises or consonent sounds, everything has to be the number 5, if not odd numbers, 4 is the worst number ever, I type things or write things out in my head, I repeat words all the time - the last two things are particularly disruptive when I'm trying to read as I have to keep stopping to give myself time to type/ repeat. I don't have a certain time of the year when things get worse, but certainly when I'm struggling more or under stress my OCD gets out of control. Ironic really seeing as it's a way to control things. And picking skin, I'm not sure. Do you feel that something terrible will happen if you don't do it? Or is it just a habit you do a lot? Glad that you found the thread, you are not alone
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