"I waste hours each day repeating
rituals until it finally feels right."
"A part of me knows it's ridiculous but the
other part seems powerless to stop."
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"If I touch something that has been on the
floor, I wash my hands repeatedly . . . sometimes
15 times or more at once. I can't help it."
"I was cutting fruit for my kids' breakfast
and I had this mental image of me hurting
my family with the knife! I was terrified!
I must be going insane if I could even think
of something like that!"