hello. i have an obsession with the three doors in my house that i have to shut each morning before i leave the house. maybe if i talk about it here it will aid the resolution of the problem.
i have to close the doors to two bedrooms and the bathroom before i leave the house to keep my nosey polar bear out. One time i left one of the doors open and lois got stuck in my bedroom and it scared both of us.
So, each morning i get all ready, i close all three door and then i leave the house. Then i have to turn around and go back and check. One time i was on the freeway (halfway to work!) and i had to turn around and make sure that the doors were closed.
of course the doors are closed. they always have been. at first my feeling was hey, i'm right there. why not just check? it can't hurt to be double sure, right? but it has started to interfere with my life. and now i am finding myself doing other bizarre things to help myself to remember that the doors are closed. I tap the doors after i close each one, when i tap the door i think in my head "the door is closed". I have also started saying out loud "I am now closing the door". omg. i'm becoming one of those people. Pretty soon i will not be able to leave the house without doing a 45 minute door closing ritual.
1 comment:
you may give me a key to check your doors, but at that point you should probably check yourself too ... into a hospital, that is
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