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Freeing Yourself from

OCD

By Rifka Schonfeld, Director of S.O.S.
(Strategies For Optimum Success)

I’m not crazy, not really.
But I remember so well, the kind support,
the gentle encouragement,
I know the door was locked, and you
watched me turn the car around . . . again .
. . to check the lock . . . again. -
sions.
But I’m not crazy.
Her hands are red and raw. laughed with me
She hides them in her lap or behind her
back.

“I did touch the door knob, not with my steps toward success.

prayers.
She needs to wash her hands again. They prayed when I couldn’t.
But she’s not crazy…
She walked through the door, but she
didn’t do it right. illness called OCD,

others with OCD.
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happen to her mother. er.
But she’s not crazy.

I remember the stares, the whispers, the To those who laugh and stare and whisper

- Cherry Pedrick