I have this thing that I do whenever I have anxiety, I rub my nails on my lips, or stroke my nails, I have to do it the same amount of times on each nail and equally for both hands. I have only just realised that this is probably OCD however and my mum absolutely hates it so if she sees me doing it she'll pull my hand away from my face and I agree with her that it's silly and I want to stop it, but the second she turns away I carry on until I'm equal anyway. And if she's stopped me in the middle, it's all I can think about until I've made each fingernail and both hands equal.

Lately I've been getting increasingly worrying intrusive thoughts that trigger this compulsion, instead of just my social anxiety and I think I should see the GP about it, but I have a really hard time voicing anything, especially concerns about mental health, so for now I'm suffering in silence.

Even whilst typing this I've had to pause multiple times to do the finger thing, and it makes me feel stupid. What do you think I should do?