I know that I am new here, and that no one here knows a lot about me. Please let me start by telling you that I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I am a checker and a counter. At night, my biggest problem is that I am convinced that my house is not safe enough and that someone will break in and harm me or kill me.

My husband works at night, so he is not home Monday through Friday nights, and sometimes on Saturday. I used to only worry about it when he wasn't home, but now I obsess over it even when he is home.

Between the hours of 9:23pm and 4 am I cannot sleep because this is the time that I feel that I am most at risk for a break in. We live in a rather small town, and right across the street from the Chief of Police and another police officer (they live side by side), so I should feel that I am at the safest place that I can be, but I do not.

I'm so terrified that I will lay in bed awake literally for hours and obsess to the point that I make myself sick if I do not get up and get onto the computer or read a book or clean something. I don't see the doctor again until August 10, so I am not really sure what to do...