I did the same for a time, except the pattern was simply number 5. If I snapped my fingers for some reason, I had to snap them 5 times, or anxiety would chip in

I did the same for a time, except the pattern was simply number 5. If I snapped my fingers for some reason, I had to snap them 5 times, or anxiety would chip in, in the beginning not so much, but towards when it got worse, I had some bad times: imagine I snapped my fingers 5 times, and then once again. I had to snap the 5 times again, but then I had snapped them 5 times only 2 times... You can guess what happened next. At some point I had an anxiety attack, realised it was not normal, and fortunately managed to, on my own, push through the anxiety of not giving in to the repetitions. Eventually it disappeared and if it ever comes back, it's easy for me to detect it early and quickly kill it before developing habit.