I tried to gloss over parts of the story, lest I add another compulsion to my list of OCD habits, but I ended up reading them anyway. I hope none of them bleed into my own OCD compulsions. OCD is terrible, it doesn't make any sense to me as much as I've tried to understand it. I know the things I do are completely irrational yet I still do them anyway.

I got hope from the telling that the compulsions can wane over time but I'm fearful they can come back even stronger. I did, however, learn something new in that my OCD did not begin when I first though it began (sometime in 2004 when I first thought something was wrong), but 14 years earlier when I was age 10 and had to sleep with my covers tucked underneath me (to prevent the spiders under my bed from getting at me). Maybe this will help in therapy..