Symmetry and Orderliness
OCD patients often experience a compulsive desire to achieve symmetry and orderliness for all owned items. They create a strict pattern to follow, and a disruption in this order may increase their anxiety levels. It is a feeling of perfection, emanating from a place of fear and the belief that orderliness must be achieved at all cost. A disruption in this arrangement [7] or order may cause extreme anxiety and fidgeting like they’re in a panic.