Her condition is complicated with OCD, which means that she feels she needs to do stuff when she doesn't. She has had a longstanding obsession with taps being off, and multiple inspections of the handbag to ensure everything's in there, but has recently developed one for carefully examining the floor of doorways before walking through them.
My training regarding OCD is to simply not allow these behaviours. When she does them I tell her off. In this way she gets reassured that nothing bad will happen. Unfortunately it doesn't "stick" and she would revert to severe OCD if I wasn't constantly on top of her irrational fears.
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