Yeah. If you tell a psychologist that someone is collecting every cigarette butt they find on the street so that some toddler doesn't come around and eat it, the first thing to come out of their mouth will be "OCD". The diagnosis takes a lot of different shapes, but this sort of behavior is definitely a very OCD thing.
Logic that normally would go "unless I do X, there is a chance Y might happen" has turned into "unless I do X, Y will certainly happen and it be my fault."
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