Haha Moose,you sound like me with the cracks and the obsessive reading, and I have a formal dx. But, like dhx mentioned, it can be very thought orientated. Mine's at its worst within an episode, a thought will loop and loop and loop for hours, mostly a negative one, and obviously it disrupts my 'usual' stuff I actually need to think about. So its quite bothersome, as it ends up slowing me down with its incessant interuptions... Know why I thought I wasnt OCD? I'm not a neat freak, thought is was criteria...