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Quote: Originally posted by kikaimegami
I do that too, but it's a manifestation of anxiety. (Wake up at 3am thinking I smelled something burning, pace the house for a half hour breathing manually while I sniff everything, knowing the scent was in my mind but unable to let go of it.). So that could work for anxiety disorders too, you'd just have to RP it.
EDIT: Actually, looking back on it, the neurotic trait is honestly anxiety-disorder-the-trait, so...
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True. Though I should point out that there is some anxiety in my case, too. I essentially have two different sets of symptoms: physical symptoms, which include classical compulsive behaviors like "I much touch this spot on the wall a million times", or "this chair needs to be in this exact position, down to the millimeter", as well as weirder things, like echolalia and twitches; and psychological symptoms, the most prominent of which is the constant subconscious need to have an all-consuming anxiety of some kind. When I was younger, I was always watching the clouds, sure that any bit of sky darker than pure white meant a giant storm was going to kill us all. When I reached my teens, I spent my time worrying that various extremely mild childhood misbehavior from years prior made me a horrible, unlikable person. Now that I'm in college, it most often crops up as me obsessing about what every new piece of information means to my overall worldview, though thankfully, it's a pretty minor concern nowadays, because I have medication to deal with it. Ah, SSRIs. How I love them.
Wow, that turned into a long bit of rambling. I guess it was therapeutic. Um… I guess, the point, if there is one, is that it actually sounds like the neurotic trait fits your thing better. Mine is pretty convoluted.