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I feel my hands are dirty when I touch money.
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I think even slight contact with bodily secretions (perspiration, saliva. urine etc.) may contaminate my clothes or somehow harm me.
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I find it difficult to touch an object when I know it has been touched by strangers or by certain people.
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I find it difficult to touch garbage or dirty things.
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I avoid using public toilets because I am afraid of disease and contamination.
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I avoid using public telephones because I am afraid of contagion and disease.
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I wash my hands more often and longer than necessary.
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I sometimes have to wash or clean myself simply because I think I may be dirty or “contaminated.”
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If I touch something I think is “contaminated” I immediately have to wash or clean myself.
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If an animal touches me, I feel dirty and immediately have to wash myself or change my clothing.
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When doubts and worries come to my mind, I cannot rest until I have talked them over with a reassuring person.
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When I talk I tend to repeat the same things and the same sentences several times.
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I tend to ask people to repeat the same things to me several times consecutively, even though I did understand what they said the first time.
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I feel obliged to follow a particular order in dressing, undressing and washing myself.
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Before going to sleep I have to do certain things in a certain order.
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Before going to bed I have to hang up or fold my clothes in a special way.
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I feel I have to repeat certain numbers for no reason.
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I have to do things several times before I think they are properly done.
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I tend to keep on checking things more often than necessary.
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I check and recheck gas and water taps and light switches after turning them off.
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I return home to check doors, windows, drawers etc., to make sure they are properly shut.
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I keep on checking forms, documents, checks etc. in detail, to make sure I have filled them in correctly.
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I keep on going back to see that matches. cigarettes etc. are properly extinguished.
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When I handle money I count and recount it several times.
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I check letters carefully many times before posting them.
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I find it difficult to take decisions, even about unimportant matters.
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Sometimes I am not sure I have done things which in fact I know I have done.
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I have the impression that I will never be able to explain things clearly, especially when talking about important matters that involve me.
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After doing something carefully, I still have the impression I have either done it badly or not finished it.
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I am sometimes late because I keep on doing certain things more often than necessary.
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I invent doubts and problems about most of the things I do.
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When I start thinking of certain things, I become obsessed with them.
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Unpleasant thoughts come into my mind against my will and I cannot get rid of them.
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Obscene or dirty words come into my mind and I cannot get rid of them.
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My brain constantly goes its own way and I find it difficult to attend to what is happening round me.
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I imagine catastrophic consequences as a result of absent-mindedness or minor errors which I make.
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I think or worry at length about having hurt someone without knowing it.
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When I hear about a disaster, I think it is somehow my fault.
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I sometimes worry at length for no reason that I have hurt myself or have some disease.
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I sometimes start counting objects for no reason.
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I feel I have to remember completely unimportant numbers.
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When I read I have the impression I have missed something important and must go back and reread the passage at least two or three times.
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I worry about remembering completely unimportant things and make an effort not to forget them.
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When a thought or doubt comes into my mind, I have to examine it from all points of view and cannot stop until I have done so.
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In certain situations I am afraid of losing my self-controi and doing embarassing things. Obsessions and compulsions: the Padua Inventory 177
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When I look down from a bridge or a very high window, I feel an impulse to throw myself into space.
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When I see a train approaching I sometimes think I could throw myself under its wheels.
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At certain moments I am tempted to tear off my clothes in public.
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While driving I sometimes feel an impulse to drive the car into someone or something.
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Seeing weapons excites me and makes me think violent thoughts.
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I get upset and worried at the sight of knives, daggers and other pointed objects.
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I sometimes feel something inside me which makes me do things which are really senseless and which I do not want to do.
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I sometimes feel the need to break or damage things for no reason.
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I sometimes have an impulse to steal other people's belongings, even if they are of no use to me.
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I am sometimes almost irresistibly tempted to steal something from the supermarket.
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I sometimes have an impulse to hurt defenseless children or animals.
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I feel I have to make special gestures or walk in a certain way.
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In certain situations I feel an impulse to eat too much. even if I am then ill.
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When I hear about a suicide or a crime, I am upset for a long time and find it difficult to stop thinking about it.
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I invent useless worries about germs and diseases.