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I feel like I have OCD, but it does not cause too much wastage of time. I do feel the need to perform rituals. for example :
- looking at the clock even number of times
- touching my hair and sratching my scalp sometimes
- putting certain objects in "mental cages" before starting an acitivity like eating a meal, watching television etc etc..
- Although I do not do this now, I used to wash my hands repeatedly when I was about 10-14 years old (i'm 22 now)
- I also used to be (not anymore) obsessed with symmetry
- there was a time (10-14 yrs of age) when I used to silently count for no reason at all. mostly before starting an activity.

Even though I feel like I have always had OCD symptoms, it hasn't ever interfered with daily activities too much.

Oh and I do have almost all the symptoms of ADD (innattentive type only) and anxiety disorder.

So can a person be diagnosed with OCD even though these rituals (mental or physical) don't affect the person's daily activities too much?

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Altho to a point we can say certain things or in your case OCD isn't affecting your daily life, it actually might be. Mental disorders are funny because they aren't ever truly understood in my opinion, while you have some symptoms for sure a professioinal would hav eto diagnose it. It's hard to say if it is affecting your daily life until it stops...with meds it can....that way you'd notice a difference maybe.