well you probably know it's not normal behavior. do you mean is it normal for OCD? i think it's pretty common. it's not my problem but a lot of people have germ or contamination issues. the nice thing is that i hear the exposure therapy works pretty well for that stuff, so there's a lot of hope for it.

i always wondered about whether that would work for me. my compulsive issues are more noise / personal space related as well as the obsessing. nobody even suggested it when i first started going nuts and even now after 6 months of meds, it seems scary.