“It’s thoughts like that that trigger the need to fix or clean. It is not because something not being the way you prefer it, bugs you. It is because something terrible will happen if you do not fix it, and the thought does not go away until you make sure what ever it is is the way it has to be. Then…”— Hayden Carroll, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: ocd, Fear, Death
“The intrusive thought. The needling lack of logic. The obsession. The anxiety. They do not yield, but you can get better at ignoring it.”— Hayden Carroll, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: ocd, Ignoring, Anxiety
“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 d…”— Hayden Carroll, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: ocd, Unreasonable, Rape