i can't stop checking things mostly my bedroom door & car doors as well as the oven when I bake anything! I am also having issues with being forgetful I will totally have no memory of doing something but when I go to do it it's already done & being the only 1 in the house I had to do it!!! Has anyone else experienced this? Maybe it isn't an O.C.D thing just another one of my weird symptoms. I lay in bed for hours going over & over the same thing until I am ready to scream & pull my own hair out and I say to myself stop this & then 2 seconds later I am doing it again. I have been wakeing up in the middle of the night soaked & not from a bad dream…because I pretty much remember my dreams every single night I wake up & can remember at least 5 or 6 of them & i don't forget them for days. I get no quality sleep if any at all I lay there in bed till 3,4, or 5 in the morning many nights!!!!! Which doesn't help being tired definitely makes it worse. I used to mostly have thoughts repeating but more recently I have been having more issues with counting things over & over again as well as the rituals-checking locks is my main one but i also count things,go over & over what i just bought at the store,put things in groups & freak out at uneven numbers,foods touching,certain words, and many other things that drive me almost nuts! It has gotten to the point that my parents & sister notice it which is really bad because they normally ignore me altogether as mucg as possible & deny anything is wrong….but I think they are beginning to see that isn't true. Basically I was put on medicine which helped at 1st then didn't so started taking more which helped a while & now is wearing off again . Is their anything beside medicine I can try? I have not been given much information just asked questions yeah u have it & then my Dr put me on medicine. I am afraid of my own shadow these days & going away at night doesn't happen anymore really unless it is absolutely necessary! Sometimes I scare myself with the thoughts I have in my head after being annoyed by these thoughts & the things i am willing to try to shut it up!!!!!!!!! I am not that kind of person before and i don't like being that way now to me personally it feels like weakness