“If you have a bad feeling about something, and something bad actually ends up happening that day, you’ll chalk it up to a coincidence and move on. Not me. I’ll think that, somehow, I knew it was going to happen. That I was right. It gives my OCD credit that it doesn’t deserve. It makes the disorder…”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: ocd, coincidence, Gut Feelings
“Sometimes, I’ll even cancel plans, because I feel like something bad is going to happen if I leave the house. The worst case scenario is always the first scenario I think of.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: ocd, Fear, Death
“The thing about OCD is that I realize I’m being completely ridiculous. You don’t have to tell me. You don’t have to make me feel even worse about it than I already do, because I know. I’m trying to resist my urges, but it’s hard.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: ocd, crazy, Temptations