What’s the smallest thing you’ve ever obsessed over?

One time I was looking at a photo of michael cera and I got the most bizzarre intrusive thought ever that was like "he looks jewish". I was literally stumped by that thought because I have no idea what makes a person look jewish...at all. I started thinking stuff like "why would I think that? Am I an anti-semite? Why would I think he looks jewish is it because of those horrible anti-semetic portraits???". I even looked up his personal info only to find out he had italian heritage and I'm still so confused about why I thought that. Possibly some dumb intrusive thought but of course I'm gonna worry that there was more than that. I don't think there's anything that makes a person "look jewish", so I just sat there feeling like a moron for half an hour.

@vimli I have that obsession constantly! But not just that, stuff like am I racist? Am I homophobic? Am I sexist?

Constantly re-reading messages or stuff I write out just to check that it “makes sense”... as if I’ve suddenly forgotten how words work... ?

OCD sucks. My worst one is the homophobia one because I’m LGBT+ but racism OCD is bad too

I thought it was something only my OCD brought up though I’ve thought that about a lot of my themes

Your friend sounds great and yeah, it’s always worst if it is something to do with family or friends

I would obsess about staring too much so I would count how many seconds in my head that I would make eye contact with people. If I did it for more than 5 seconds, they catch on and think that I’m weird.

Today my boyfriend was sitting and talking to this girl in class. He shuffled closer to her probably because he couldn’t hear her or something. That made me panic a bit because “he’s shuffling closer to her omg she’s basically sitting on his lap. hes MY boyfriend” and then I managed to convince myself that he was ignoring me and that he hates me. Stupid thing to think because I mean why would he be dating me if he hated me? Lol typical

This is a great question because there are so many small things I’ve obsessed over. If I had to choose one I would say it would be the specific time , date , and everything I did a specific day in 2007 to make sure I didn’t have time to do something horrible ??? and I used a calculator once to count the days since a specific day to make sure there wasn’t enough time for me to forget if I did something bad ???

i always obsess over my brothers saying goodnight an exact way and it’s so dumb but it seems so extremely important in the moment lmao ffffff

I have to check my purse again and again several times in a day just to make sure that there is nothing in there that shouldn't.

Turning off sink or charging phone

My smallest one was about... my phone battery. I obsessively checked my battery health, every day multiple times a day. I was afraid it would get “old” and not hold a good charge.