I have ocd. what are some symptoms?

Asking questions : When you already know the answer, just to "make sure." if you have a diagnosis of ocd, you have exhibited the symptoms for long enough and often enough and severe enough to see an md and receive the diagnosis. If you simply "think" you may have ocd, schedule an appointment with a psychiatrist (or start with your regular physician) and find out! treatments exist; help is out there! good luck.

Anxiety Provoking: With obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd), one experiences intrusive, unwanted, anxiety producing thoughts. To combat the anxiety, a person develops ritualistic behaviors that lead to a temporary reduction in anxiety only to have the anxiety return. Fear of germs or contamination cause a patient to wash their hands so frequently as to injure their skin. Check out "stop obsessing", by edna foa.

Over-thinking&-doing: Two things-obsessions, persistent irrational thoughts that won't go away; and compulsions, repetitive actions without rational basis. You can have all one or all the other or a mixture of both. Some examples, need to check house lights and stove for an hour before going to bed, excessive prayer to the point that it interferes with normal life, germ phobia with excessive hand washing, etc.

O and C: The o stands for obessions which are repetitive intrusive thoughts that cause anxiety. The c are compulsions whicj are behavioural attempts to reduce anxiety. If these developed strongly and are interfering in your life-it could be ocd.

Long list: The symptoms of ocd are all attempts to reduce anxiety--if one were forced not to think the obsessive thoughts or not to perform the rituals, anxiety would mount. Suppose you always had to close your closet doors. If you forced yourself to leave them ajar, you would feel more and more tense until "compelled" to get out of bed and close them. If not at home you might "obsess" that you hadn't.