OCD question im sure people have asked but w/e

i think i might have ocd but im not really sure.

for the last few years (i donno really, it could be more) i think i have had sysmptoms of ocd but back then i always just thought it meant you were a perfectionist and obsesed with cleaning and washing your hands and stuff. that could very well be only what it is, so this is where my question comes.

i am an extremely unorganized person, it doesnt really bother me at all. right now i am sitting in a room with clothes all over my floor, i dont care. i dont wash my hands excessively either. but i do do repeativive things. like i brush my teeth a certain way, wash my hair a certen way, and brush my hair a certen. i also do things a certen number of times, like for instints if i am listening to music on my ipod or cd player i will hit back after 1 sec. of the song a certen amount of times, then after 3 or maybe 9 seconds of a song before i fully listen to it. i also when setting my alarm clock hit the on a off a ton of times. when i watch tv i press exit (on the menu) 3 sets of 3 times and watch the light on my cable box. sometimes blick a certen amount of times or swallow a certen amount of times too. i know these things have nothing to do with cleaning but they seem complasive to me, and if i dont do them i get stressed out and get a headache or stomache.

infact the year before last (7th grade for me) i was doing so much stuff in the mornings before school so id have a "good day" or w/e i would sometimes be late.

i really dont know if this ocd, cause i read some stuff on this and another, just recently for the first time, and it says the people who do complasive things arent aware of. i am perfectly aware and know they are irrational, but i do them anyways to "feel better". also i dont think i have any specific obsessions. i mean i kind of do, but they really arent rational fears, and i know this, and yet, i still think i can be complasive.

anyway sorry for the really long post, its just that its easier to write this in a forum only people i dont know read then actually talk to someone i know or a doctor...cause in all honesty i dont think ill ever tell anyone, but i really like to know if people think i have it or not and if i do, how i could help myself.

I remember thinking the same thing about OCD. I'm a disorganised and often messy person also. I've never had the hand-washing type OCD symptoms, so when i was told my my Dr that i had OCD, i was like "WHAT'The??". I learnt real fast that OCD has 2 aspects to it... the obsessions & the compulsions, and they're not always linked. For me, i'm 80% obsession and 20% compulsion. The compulsions are things like checking the alarm clock & the door etc at night, and making sure my PC is turned off. It's the obsessions that hit me though... i used to go crazy thinking my wife was cheating on me, for no reason at all. I would avoid driving down certain roads because i believed i would die. Those are just 2 examples.. there are loads more.

What you described sounds very similar to how I was when I was diagnosed 5 years ago. My advice would be to get it checked out. If you are diagnosed, you'll then be able to give it a name