“When you have OCD, the trigger is not reasonable, it is not something along the lines of ‘they messed it up, I have to fix it or it will annoy me’, it is more a long the lines of ‘if I don’t make sure my collection of vintage potato chips is in chronological order, someone will date-rape my future daughter’.”
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