15 Things Only People With Low Key OCD Will Understand

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Is your superpower the ability to hold your pee in for hours?

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Constantly bothered by a slight wrinkle on your shirt, and addicted to your hand sanitizer? We know OCD might be a serious anxiety disorder for some people, but in this article, we present the top signs you might have low-key OCD.

1. Order and Symmetry are Your Pillars of Existence

Order and Symmetry Are The Pillars of Your Existence

You can’t fathom the monsters who would have it otherwise.

2. You Have an Overwhelming Urge to Clean Things

Overwhelming Urge To Clean Things and Places

Even when they aren’t necessarily yours.

3. You Need to Check Things

need to check things

A couple of Hundred times.

4. You Tend to Overthink, A LOT

you tend to overthink

About perfectly practical things such as a wrinkled sock or a smudge on your laptop screen.

5. You Always Envisage Worst Case Scenarios

You Always Envisage Worst Case Scenarios

Final Destination much?

6. Odd Figures in Statistical Results Induce Anxiety

You Get Anxious About Odd Figures in Statistical Results

This is a particularly problematic image to you.

7. You are Also Slightly Superstitious

You Are Also Slightly Superstitious

Okay, ‘slightly’ might be an understatement of epic proportions.

8. Certain Patterns Freak You Out

Certain Patterns Freak You Out

Alternately, this eases your anxious mind.

9. It’s a Tedious Task to Explain Your OCD to Others

It Is A Tedious Task To Explain Your OCD To Your Friends

They just think you’re ‘weird’.

10. You Wash Your Hands over 50 Times a Day

A Day With Dettol Handwash

You associate handwash and even first aid with Dettol.

dettol handwash sanitizer

11. You Have Tremendous Control over Your Bladder

You Have Mastered The Art Of Controlling

Public toilets are A BIG NO, even when you’re travelling.

12. You Have a Fixed Morning Schedule

fixed morning schedule

The slightest of variation in this schedule irritates you to no end.

13. It’s a Struggle to Maintain Symmetrical Eyeliner

Maintain Symmetrical Eyeliner and Eyebrows

It has to be just right.

14. Your Closet is Organized According to Color

Your Closet is Organized According to Colour

How else are you supposed to do it?

15. It Bothers You That This List Ends on an Odd Number

List Ends on an Odd Number

Sorry, not sorry.