Reddit reviews The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD: A Guide to Overcoming Obsessions and Compulsions Using Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

There are a number of self-help books out there that can give you support and even give you some guidance in some forms of treatment. The ones I used before I went into therapy were:

The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD (Mindfulness and ERP therapy)

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life (ACT therapy)

The OCD Workbook (ERP therapy)

There is always an added benefit of therapy that you have a coach who can help you with the process of recovery. I tried self-help before therapy, and while self-help helped (heh), I still struggled. At a certain point, I could afford therapy, so I went for it and it helped a lot. I learned that I had underestimated the importance of the cognitive part of CBT, and I needed some coaching on that. But the themes I tackled during my self-help ERP--I had killed them dead. I learned I was kinda doing the exposures a little wrong during my self-help phase, but I still got the effect. YMMV.

I also recommend just general support groups like this one, ocdforums.org, and The OCD Stories. Not gonna lie--sometimes I go there for research/reassurance (as do a lot of the posters on the forums). But some days, I read or hear something that really clicks and is super helpful. And that can go a long way. I still use some of the techniques and phrases I learned on those sites.

Recovery is possible. Hang in there.

The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD

First of all OCD can manifest itself in almost everything you can imagine. OCD can get really really bizzare...

For example one guy, who also wrote a book about his OCD, tried to stop progressing in time.

"Time equals progression, progression equals death."

Ed Zine believed that if he lived his life in reverse — physically rewinding all of his actions during the day an even number of times in multiples of up to 16,384 — he could effectively stop time and protect more of his loved ones from dying.

I've heard of a women, who was afraid to get sucked in a parallel universe, when not doing compulsions. A other guy told me he carried a fluff in his pocket, cause he couldn't decide on which side he want to pass it for two weeks...

And they all had just OCD, and no psychosis or whatever. OCD can even imitate Schizophrenia, but it's still OCD.

And lots of OCD sufferes develope at least some unique ocd traits, which their therapists may have never seen before in any other patient.

But nonetheless all of those things follow the common OCD pattern.
Something feels not right, bad feelings/thoughts/body sensations and then trying to get rid of them through compulsive behaviour.

I don't know if you have OCD, but your problems sounds at least OCDish. You get bad feelings/thoughts that something is/feels not right and then you try to make it right.
The obsessions are what bring the anxiety/fears, and the compulsions are the acts one does to fix or get rid of them.

But Ocdish behaviour is a common thing even in healthy people, its only called OCD if it brings suffering or starts to interfering with ones life. If such things really starts to become a problem, the sooner on starts working on them the better.

In OCD therapy people have to stop compulsions and face their fears through exposure for example doing things wrong on purpose, doing things in an uneven manner and so on, but all without engaging in soothing compulsions or other reassuring behaviour.
The patients then see that nothing bad happens and that even bad feelings will start to fade away at some point. Sometimes its a matter of minutes/hours, and sometimes it can even take weeks till the bad feelings are mostly gone. But sooner or later it gets better.

If you want to learn more about OCD I can recommend this the mindfulness workbook for OCD

http://www.amazon.com/The-Mindfulness-Workbook-OCD-Compulsions-ebook/dp/B00H28YC98

and Mark Freemans Youtube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJzijIM4ED3ukn0GJRWZwhw

And you should tell all this to your therapist for sure. Always tell them everything. There's nothing too crazy or whatever to tell psychologist. It's their job to hear such things.

All the best.

Greetings, fellow OCD sufferer. I was diagnosed with OCD three years ago, and my primary theme is moral scrupulosity. I know exactly what you're talking about, and can empathize. This article brought me a great deal of help.

http://www.ocdspecialists.com/real-event-ocd/

This book, along with therapy, greatly helped my life as well. Mindfulness and Stoicism go hand in hand. This book has a great section on moral scrupe . https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Workbook-OCD-Overcoming-Compulsions-ebook/dp/B00H28YC98/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500527937&sr=8-1&keywords=mindfulness+ocd+workbook

Sure. It's nothing out of the ordinary for people coping with OCD.
I highly recommend you the following books, they are talking about things you're describing and giving great advises:

1. https://www.amazon.com/Coping-OCD-Practical-Strategies-Obsessive-Compulsive-ebook/dp/B003TU2KJC/ref=dp_kinw_strp_2
   2.https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Workbook-OCD-Overcoming-Compulsions-ebook/dp/B00H28YC98/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1503184088&sr=1-1&keywords=mindfulness+ocd
   

Is this the kind of thing you're looking for? It's very helpful.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H28YC98/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1