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  "OCD is like having a bully stuck inside your head and nobody else can see it

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  "OCD is like having a bully stuck inside your head and nobody else can see it."

-Krissy McDermott


"You lose time. You lose entire blocks of your day to obsessive thoughts or actions. I spend so much time finishing songs in my car before I can get out or redoing my entire shower routine because I lost count of how many times I scrubbed my left arm."

-Kelly Hill


"It's like having mental hiccups. Mostly, we can function despite the 'hiccups,' but we're exhausted attempting to carry on as if they didn't exist."

-Sheila Cavanaugh


"It's like being controlled by a puppeteer. Every time you try and just walk away he pulls you back. Are you sure the stove is off and everything is unplugged? Back up we go. Are you sure your hands are as clean as they can get? Back ya go. Are you sure the doors are securely locked? Back down we go. How many people have touched this object? Wash your hands again."

-Toni Neville


"It's like a broken machine. Thoughts go in your head, get stuck and keep going around and around."

-Megan Flynn


"Imagine all your worst thoughts as a soundtrack running through your mind 24/7, day after day."

-Adam Walker Cleveland 


  "Picture standing in a room filled with flies and pouring a bottle of syrup over yourself. The flies constantly swarm about you, buzzing around your head and in your face. You swat and swat, but they keep coming. The flies are like obsessional thoughts — you can't stop them, you just have to fend them off. The swatting is like compulsions — you can't resist the urge to do it, even though you know it won't really keep the flies at bay more than for a brief moment." 

-Cheryl Little Sutton 


  "It's like looking through a magnifying glass that only picks up on the potentially dangerous, harmful and scary." 

-Laura McCarthy 


  "It's like listening to a CD with an invisible scratch."  

-Penny Hare


  "It's like you have two brains — a rational brain and an irrational brain. And they're constantly fighting." 

-Emilie Ford  

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