Hi,

For the last few months, I have had an icon (1) next to my account saying that I have an unread chat message, but I don't. This is driving my OCD nuts.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.

You might try clearing cache and cookies and then logging back into the site. I was having issues a couple of months ago with the site making me log in all the time and showing a red 1 in my account for nothing and since I've done that I have not had anymore of those issues.

Your nuts have OCD? That must be terrible, I'm really sorry to hear that. If it's any consolation, most peoples nuts perform repetitive tasks, and in fact some partners may prefer such nuts. Hang in there, maybe you can find a use for this condition.

You are learning well my young Padawan. :D

You can alleviate any OCD frustrations if you just put a piece of tape to block the "1" on your screen…or, you can learn to be one with the chaos in this world.

A pirate comes into a bar with a ship's steering wheel sticking out of the front of his pants. The bartender says "Jesus, what on earth is that? It looks painful." The pirate says "Arrr, it's drivin' me nuts!"

(My apologies to the OP. Do contact support about your issue.)

The only way to alleviate the symptoms is to just leave the 1 there until he no longer cares.

The chief problem with OCD is that every time you do the ritual or otherwise allow it to make the decision it just gets worse. The only way out is to accept the discomfort until it's no longer uncomfortable.

Which is usually the thing that folks with genuine OCD can't do. People with OCPD though might be able to and normally people have no trouble with. A man walks into a psychiatrist's office wearing saran pants. The doctor says, I see your nuts.

I thought the same thing when I had a 1 stuck there, but I went through all all the chat logs and found one was actually registered as unread and it went away straight away.