i am neurotic.

I often times worry that light switches I turn off could be stuck between the on and off positions. Each night before bed I methodically check the switches in my house with a firm downward press. Occasionally, when anxious, I will make get out of bed to make a second ...

When I eat any sort of colourful candy, like M&Ms; or jubes, I empty a few into my palm, and eat them according to colour. I eat the citrus coloured ones first, then backwards according to the rainbow, and then brown if it's there.

Whenever I say something I have to repeat the sentence back to myself in my head. I analyze the sentence and determine whether it came out the way I wanted it to come out. When this first started I would also mouth the words and sometimes say the whole sentence ...

When I set my alarm at night the ending digit has to be 6. always. (5:16, 5:36, :5:56) If I end it in a normal number, I consider it a jinx and I will surely sleep through it.

When I am in an uncomfortable situation I start to write random words and sentences with my finger where ever I can, like my leg or on walls, or I'll imagine them writing themselves out in my mind.

Whenever I'm on the city or school bus and looking out the window, I have to blink whenever the lines on the sidewalk are exactly next me. Or I have to blink whenever I feel that the bus is in between the separate panels of sidewalk.

Every time I send an email that contains an attachment at work, I open the document one more time just to make sure that I didn't type any curse words by accident. Sometimes I open it more times after that just to make sure!

I have a fear of running on pavement while barefoot and tripping onto my toe, scuffing the front of it and my toenail on the ground. Because of this I always wear shoes in the summer and walk very carefully if they are open-toe.

Whenever I see a sign on a highway that denotes distances to multiple cities (ie. New York - 50 miles, Philadelphia, 125 miles), my brain goes into a mode that causes me to find the next number in the sequence that both numbers are divisible by. In the above example, ...

I cannot drink lukewarm water. I can't do it. it makes me want to vomit. the only way I will drink water is if it's really cold. this is a problem because my husband will not drink cold water, only lukewarm.

I wait to turn off the faucet at a public bathroom after washing my hands, so I can turn it off with the paper towel I used to dry my hands. I figure that the faucet handle must be the dirtiest object, because it is the last thing that people ...

Every morning when I wake up, I kiss my Transformers figurines good morning. When I go to bed I kiss them good night, but in the reverse order of when I "get" them up. If I can't do that, I can't start or end my day.

Whenever I am around people who are barefoot or wearing sandals I count their toes multiple times until I'm positive there are 5 on each foot.

I hate it when a friend asks to borrow chapstick. It's not that I'm a germaphobe, but I don't like it when they try to be "germ conscious" and run my chapstick onto their finger before applying it to their lips, it really grosses me out. I would much rather ...