When we think of OCD we tend to think of the man fastidiously washing his hands, the woman lining everything up on the table, and the inidividual repeatedly checking if the stove is turned off. But OCD manifests itself differently in every person. For some people it is needing order for others it is repetition, for others it is routine. Common to all though is the thought that something bad may happen if the set routine is changed or not followed. Often an OCD person thinks themselves as merely supersticious - if I wear 'those' pair of socks I will have good luck but if I wear the other something bad always happens.

I am all about routine - doing the same thing the same way every time. I once worked as a night security guard. Every walk about I did in the same order touching each door in the same place even humming the same series of tunes. I had horrible thoughts of bad things happening to my children if I at all veered away from my set routine. And I am quite supersticious.