Jeff Bell's Six Trapdoors of OCD/Anxiety

From Jeff Bell's outstanding OCD book, When in Doubt Make Belief, six trap-doors on the false path to escaping doubt. I've fallen through all of them, one time or another, except for #5, fixing.

1. Checking: physically searching for verification that some feared consequences did not, or will not, happen.

2. Reassurance-seeking: asking for the assurances of others that some feared consequences did not, or will not happen.

3. Ruminating: mentally replaying events, conversations, and other sequences in search of verification that some feared consequence did not, or will not, happen.

4. Protecting: performing rituals (such as repeating patterns) and acting in unproductive ways for the sole purpose of warding off feared consequences.

5. Fixing: performing rituals (often relating to symmetry) for the sole purpose of making things "feel" right

6. Avoiding: deliberately avoiding events that trigger anxiety; this can be thought of as the ultimate compulsion.