problem with checking stuff twice ,anyone?

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im having bit problems because every time i leave from my apartment i clearly but door on lock....now when i get in my car i always have to make sure i put it on lock....so i have to get back again and check it -.- how in the f**k i can avoid this?
i kinda think "i dont remember did i locked it for sure" even i heard click just moment ago

Lately I've been like this. But mainly becayuse I'm so damn forgetful. Almost every time I come home I leave my keys in the door of my apartment. I'm surprised they've not gotten stolen already from my neighbors. Most of the time they've sat there in my door knob all damn night. And yet here I bithc about how I'm so unlucky.

I do this a lot, usually when I'm doing things unconsciously.

I used to do this and it was getting to me. So I started to consciously stare at the object for a moment that is prone to be forgotten. Either a lock, an alarm or whenever I put something down somewhere, just to imprint it in memory. I've never lost or forgotten anything since I began doing that.

If you check 20 or 30 times, then you have OCD. If you only check once, or twice at most, then you merely have mild inattentiveness, I guess. You just don't retain the feeling "The door is l-o-c-k-e-d!"

I often have to check the car doors after I lock them. I have just pressed a button and the lights flashed ... and then I think: "Which button did I press? The 'open' button or the 'close' button?" So I check one or two doors - better to be sure than to come back to a stolen car.

These days I lock the door and immediately check two or three doors, and then walk away. If I check several doors straight away, I remember feeling convinced. I don't have to turn around and come back when I am 50 feet away. Prevention is better than cure: if you know you will forget, then test ALL the doors straightaway, so that you will remember.

I have a habit of checking twice, that's just developed, lately.

There are some things that I know ahead of time I will always feel forced to check (shower on-off switch, oven, door locks) so when I do them I make a point of being certain that it is done (I stare at the shower control for a couple of seconds, I look along the dials on the oven saying "zero-zero-zero", I stand by the car and watch/listen to the locks instead of walking off right away), then walk away with "I've done that" firmly fixed in my head. It helps.

Thing is though, I'm more concerned that I don't let the chance to avoid something bad happening than I am about the bad thing. I'm not really worried about the electricity bill or my car being stolen, or whatever, I'm worried about missing the opportunity to stop it!

Exactly the same thing with me. I just expressed it a bit differently.

I double check the door too but I've noticed my OCD is fading away.

You could try saying out loud after you do it, "OK I locked it" or just "Locked!" It uses a different part of your brain to generate verbal speech than just doing/thinking something, and enters it into your short term memory better.

Sometimes I check doors and windows 10 times, also at night.
Its because of my OCD, very irritating.

Yes...indeed I'm a multiple checker...and it does seem to help when I say it...and if I can't because there are strangers about...then making a conscious note of the action, as others have advised, certainly helps as well.

My concern with compulsive "making sure" is some of the things I'm compelled to check. As well as the significant, safety issues like the iron, the gas, the locks etc...I need to check things such as: That I've read all the information on a memo, that I really am going to the correct class (my time-table) at work, that my lunch is really in my work bag, that all my passengers are really in the car, that my head lights are really on when driving at night...the list is endless. I think I can live with it though...but I wonder what it would be like to be quite the opposite? Carefree? or Complacent?

I don't share the latter compulsions with anyone...for some strange reason...Can you relate to any of this Followthereaper90?

no i dont have ocd..i just have to make sure it twice or i cant shake feeling i forgot someting same with car my apartment is on 4th floor so its exhausting to HAVE to check it

ditto

mostly i only developed this habit after i moved away from grouphome ...same with car doors

Things like doors, alarm clocks, irons, stoves, I have to check a good 20 times.

Sometimes, I'll leave for work. Turn around, drive back home and then check a few more times.

I can alleviate some of it, if I slow down and make a mental image of myself doing it while I do it. The mental image helps later when I am questioning it.