I’ve been dealing with anxiety for 5 years now and I have been in a good place for a while now but today something happened and I had to wash my hands three times straight after. Now no matter how I try to distract myself all I can think about is washing my hands and wanting to wash them. My cat was sitting on me for a while so I couldn’t but now I can and it doesn’t feel better when I do it, I just want to keep doing it.

I’ve never experienced feeling like this before and I don’t know how to stop.