I realize it wasn't your intention to say "everyone has OCD symptoms" and it isn't what you said, but I am touchy about this and it sounded like it. So don't take this as an attack. It's just that I've met with a certain amount of resistance when I tell people what I have, like "oh sure I always check the stove too" as if it's the same thing at all. There's this pop-culture idea of what OCD is, like you're just a very careful person, and not sometimes nearly disabled. I was losing my ******* mind before I finally sought treatment.

If it prevents you from living a full and normal life, it is a symptom of OCD. Otherwise, it isn't.