I’m usually fine to do minor things “because anxiety says so.” I’m talking about things like taking screenshots with the confirmation number for purchases/submissions, taking photos of the state of the apartment when the lease is up, double or triple counting things, or turning on GPS when I know where I’m going just to obsess over the ETA. Those things don’t take a lot of time so it doesn’t bother me to do it. But sometimes anxiety makes absurd demands, and it’s impossible to ignore because your thoughts just keep circling it back even with distractions. Like this thing has been bugging me for 3 days and I kept distracting myself and whatever but it just came back like I just had to. So as of today the dumbest thing anxiety has made me do is touch my (internal) stitches because “wHaT iF tHe sUrGeRy wAs fAkE aNd mY pAiN cOmEs bAcK.” Like literally why??

So l guess I’d like some reassurance... DAE have this, like where you just have to do the thing because anxiety said so? And if so, what’s the most absurd/irrational/etc compulsion you’ve had?