OBSESSIONS ABOUT GIFT!

Hello! I’m completely new to this forum and this is my first post. I’ve suffered from OCD for many years. I’m dealing with something right now and I need help. Would love to hear your insights.

Basically, I’ve received a gift and the gift got slightly damaged in a very small area. The damage was not my doing, and there is nothing I can do to “fix” the damage per say. The gift is expensive and non-returnable.

I have been obsessing about this damage. Checking and re-checking to see if it’s even there. We’re talking millimeters. I keep checking it and feeling it and looking at it over and over again, and I just don’t know how to stop. It’s almost like I’m checking to make sure that the damage is actually even there? It’s hard to tell because it is a difference of millimeters as I mentioned and can’t even really be seen, but more so felt by touch. So I keep checking to convince myself that it’s not there, and the difference is so small that sometimes I feel it’s okay, and sometimes I feel there is something there.

I’m neglecting the other 99% and focusing just on that 1%. I know I should stop but I don’t know how? I want to enjoy the gift, but it’s just hard.

What are your thoughts? Can anyone provide any tips or tricks they’ve used to overcome these sorts of obstacles?

Thank you!

Sit the gift down in front of you and check it one last time, after that put the gift in a visible area where you see it frequently and do not check it again. Let the anxiety flow through you .