So im currently living with the fear of what if my door knob falls off of my apartment door? Like I think worst case scenarios. I'm trying not to but this is hard. I did compulsions just a little while ago but my anxiety is going crazy right now. Don't wanna look at my door knob anymore as I feel this will feed more into my compulsion instead of letting me be. Help

Wow! That's what I did!!! But I also paced my floor and just cried it out..I did the compulsions a couple of times just because my ocd told me to. This was after I took out my trash. A simple task that before was never a problem. So I did it. But I did the compulsions. I also know I did lock it. I see it that it's locked. But im hoping the outer door knob didn't fall off. I know I would have heard a loud thud had it dropped. What I did was just kept touching the doorknob to make sure it was tightly secured (it was) and the autolock is on then I closed door and locked it fully with both locks and washed hands. I'm trying to get over getting up and checking it again..im too tired for it

@JoJo83 I commend your effort friend!! Sometimes we don’t over come out compulsions, that’s OK! Every single time your brain wonders of the door knob is going to fall off tell yourself the exact same thing every time (bear with me I learned from an expert haha) OCD thrives on uncertainty, tell yourself “I am not sure if the doorknob is secure right now. Oh well. Who knows if the door knob is secure? Not me! Man that would be really awesome if the door knob just fell off the freaking door and somebody busted in my house and robbed the place? that would be really cool” I do this a lot and you’d be surprised how often I actually laugh. It helps.

@giaparmer At first it's a fear because I think what if I can't go out for anything because my outer door knob fell off. Then I think it can be handled..ha! Get it..lol so yea..I eventually start laughing at it like really? I also just told myself this..."don't do another compulsion because if you do, you're going to wind up with the SAME scenario OR worse. Your knob is FINE. You just checked it...let it go"..I actually am letting it go!!! This is HARDDDDDDDDDDD..like I am stopping myself from the compulsion, more than likely because it's getting dark out, I did enough for one day and thats that. It is what it is. Life is life. There's no guarantees in life about ANYTHING...and thank you..thank you for that joke! It truly did make me laugh lol

Nope. Only game I play is solitaire on my phone. Not into video games

@JoJo83 Perhaps learn to play solitaire with a deck of cards. It's a more mindful experience. You could even learn some other solitaire games. I just got a mahjong set for Christmas.

@Ben84 I want to learn more card games.

@JoJo83 You can even learn a few tricks while you're at it. Joshua Jay is a good start.

@Ben84 Need to go buy me a deck of cards lol. All I have is virtual