Not that I'm trying to put this disorder on you -- but from the National Institute of Mental health
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/HealthInformation/ocdmenu.cfm
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, OCD, is an anxiety disorder and is characterized by recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and/or repetitive behaviors (compulsions). Repetitive behaviors such as handwashing, counting, checking, or cleaning are often performed with the hope of preventing obsessive thoughts or making them go away.
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One site I stumbled into, but then IE blew up, so I don't know where I was said to test yourself, see if you can go a day without doing that activity and how does that make you feel?
Is the teariness a new symptom? Or has that been there all along? When this began about 7 years ago, was there something in your life that changed? Moving out on your own, college graduation, job change, from what I've read on OCD, it's possible that it's a reaction to stress as well, to make order in a world where there's very little.