Padua Inventory – Washington State University Revision (PI-WSUR)

I feel my hands are dirty when I touch money

I think even slight contact with bodily secretions (perspiration, saliva, urine, etc.) may contaminate my clothes or somehow harm me

I find it difficult to touch an object when I know it has been touched by strangers or by certain people

I find it difficult to touch garbage or dirty things

I avoid using public toilets because I am afraid of disease and contamination

I avoid using public telephones because I am afraid of contagion and disease

I wash my hands more often and longer than necessary

I sometimes have to wash or clean myself simply because I think I may be dirty or 'contaminated'

If I touch something I think is 'contaminated' I immediately have to wash or clean myself

If an animal touches me I feel dirty and immediately have to wash myself or change my clothing

I feel obliged to follow a particular order in dressing, undressing and washing myself

Before going to sleep I have to do certain things in a certain order

Before going to bed I have to hang up or fold my clothes in a special way

I have to do things several times before I think they are properly done

I tend to keep on checking things more often than necessary

I check and re-check gas and water taps and light switches after turning them off

I return home to check doors, windows, drawers, etc. to make sure they are properly shut

I keep on checking forms, documents, cheques in detail to make sure I have filled them in correctly

I keep on going back to see that matches, cigarettes, etc. are properly extinguished

When I handle money I count and recount it several times

I check letters carefully many times before posting them

Sometimes I am not sure I have done things which in fact I know I have done

When I read, I have the impression I have missed something important and must go back and re-read the passage at least two or three times

I imagine catastrophic consequences as a result of absentmindedness or minor errors which I make

I think or worry at length about having hurt someone without knowing it

When I hear about a disaster, I think somehow it is my fault

I sometimes worry at length for no reason that I have hurt myself or have some disease

I get upset or worried at the sight of knives, daggers, and other pointed objects

When I hear about suicide or crime, I am upset for a long time and find it difficult to stop thinking about it

I invent useless worries about germs and disease

When I look down from a bridge or a very high window, I feel an impulse to throw myself into space

When I see a train approaching, I sometimes think I could throw myself under its wheels

At certain moments, I am tempted to tear my clothes off in public

While driving I sometimes feel an impulse to drive the car into someone or something

Seeing weapons excites me and makes me think violent thoughts

I sometimes feel the need to break or damage things for no reason

I sometimes have an impulse to steal other people's belongings, even if they are of no use to me

I am sometimes almost irresistibly tempted to steal something from the supermarket

I sometimes have an impulse to hurt defenseless children or animals