I'm new to the forum, so I wanted to say, "Hello" and to ask a few questions, as well as explain what I deal with. I don't know if I'd be classified as "OCD", but maybe it is. My younger brother has it, but what he does is totally diff from me. I have a lot of "quirky" ways about me. To start, I have to make what I named as a child "corners". I have to take pieces of paper or certain types of materials and fold them to make a sharp point and I poke my fingers or anywhere on my body with them...it feels good and it's become a security thing for me, throughout the day and to go to sleep at night. I'm also horribly afraid of metal on metal and the smell of metal (that metallic smell), it's sends my anxiety thru the roof!! If I see someone touching tin foil with their metal utensil, I get chills and immediately start to make "the yuck face". It's almost become instant reaction. And, even though I make "corners" with paper and poke myself with it, I cannot stand for paper to touch my arms or legs...only my hands. So, I can't lay a newspaper on my legs to read it, I have to put a buffer there, so it doesn't touch me. My clothes have to be a certain way in my closet and all of my canned foods have to be a certain way in my pantry. I do take medicines for anxiety, but I still have all of these things that I do and still have these irrational fears/phobias. Another fear I have is of vomit....OMG!! I can't see it, be around, or even know someone is sick. I have a son, he's 13 now, but as a child when he'd get sick, I'd just run the other way and couldn't help him. This one is also weird, I get fears that food will make me sick (this goes w/the vomit fear), so I won't eat at times. Or, if I'm eating and something doesn't taste right, I'll assume the food is bad and I'll spit it out then think, "oh god, I'm gonna get food poisoning". I'm also HORRIBLY afraid of anything with feathers: birds, duck, geese, you name it. I have this fear that it's going to fly in my face to peck and scratch my eyes out. I've never had a bad experience with any type of bird, but it's just a fear of mine. When I send an email or a comment, I have to go back and read it like 4-5 times just to make sure I wrote it ok and I have to spell check it about 3 times to see if things weren't misspelled. Sorry to have made this so long, but I need to know if this is just a lot of irrational fears/phobias or OCD. Does anyone have any answers or comments? Thanks in advance for reading my long comment/question. :)