Obsessive Thoughts Are Normal
Well, not really. They are normal, however, for somebody who suffers with OCD. You see, it’s taken me about ten minutes to write this sentence. Not because it’s groundbreaking. Not because it’s eloquent. Because it previously contained too many Fs and Ps. F and P are bad letters. F and P will kill the first family member who reads this article. And it will be my fault. Let me explain a little more. What OCD is not See, OCD is not what you probably think it is. You most likely think of a person with OCD as somebody excessively tidy, maybe overly clean. But I’m not tidy at all. In fact I’m quite the opposite – in many cases I’m a mess. OCD, or ‘Obsessive Compulsive Disorder’ is serious mental illness, a condition where the sufferer has obsessions – something that raises their anxiety, often to a point where it’s completely intolerable or possibly close to asphyxiating (well, maybe not quite, but it feels that way) – and compulsions which, put simply, are often extravagant things...