Good evening all,

I have very severe OCD which affects me in many awful ways, but something which really gets me down is my inability to throw things away without checking time and time and time again. It drives me mad. Even once I am 'satisfied' that something is safe to throw away (and by that I mean that something else isn't caught up with it; something else I wish to keep), as soon as I turn away from whatever the item might be and attempt to bin it, I feel the overriding need to check it again; it can take me hours to throw even a small bag of rubbish away, and as a result, the rubbish has really piled up, which is really getting me down.

Does anyone know of any self-help guides which specifically focus on just this? Or perhaps has been through it themselves and can share how they tackled it?