I don't know how to explain it. Like, I will be doing my work and then my hands will feel contaminated and I have the urge to wash them because I feel extremely dirty/unsanitary and I don't like the feeling. I don't fear about getting a sickness or something, it's this weird, uncomfortable feeling about not being clean. I'm washing my hands with sanitizer at least every 15-30 minutes or so. If I don't, I can't concentrate on what I'm doing because I feel contaminated. It's not really germs at all. I just want to feel normal or "clean".

I know I have counting OCD. I shuffle a deck of cards 7 times, get paper towels out after 5 pulls of a lever, certain numbers are bad. If I wash my hands 2 times, I have to wash my hands 3 times. If I don't feel clean then, I will wash my hands 4 times. Etc.. I like the numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 20, 22, and multiples of 5s and 11s or numbers that have the same number in it a bunch of times like 55 or 444444. That's fine too. Just. Not other studies. It affects my studying a bit. I don't like getting up to wash my hands so frequently. It feels terrible. Counting OCD is only for certain things. I'm okay with answering homework questions that are numbers I don't like, but for other things it can be irritating.

What do you mean by removing its course and not symptoms? I don't understand your wording. May you please reword please? Thanks for the response .