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Perhaps it will be unfathomable for most people to understand. I know that my mother tries so hard to do so but, really, there isn’t anything to understand other than an awkward, mind-frying mental imbalance of the brain. The rest? It’s all of it OCD, every thought, every… everything until, well, the sufferer understands that it isn’t OCD pulling the strings anymore. We will understand when we understand, but there are always perhaps strings being pulled. That the dangerous nature of just how deeply engrained this particular imbalance of the brain is. There have been in-roads made, for sure. I mean, in-roads at least between many psychologists and their OCD patients. Not all psychologists by a long shot, though. People utterly mistake OCD for perfection seeking. We aren’t at all seeking perfection, in fact. What we are actually searching for is… utter, utter certainty and against our utter will because our mightily glitched brain is telling us LOUD AND CRYSTAL CLEAR that SOMETHING IS WILDLY WRONG. Then we spend all our time itching that particular scratch to make some sense of it. To also calm it down because, guess what, it’s far, far too much doubt for a brain to bear in the first place. Of course that can be mistaken for perfection seeking, as the sufferer is going to seem utterly fixated, obsessed even, on one thing working out. OCD is… unimaginable. Impossible to understand unless you have it. So, yeah, each to their own mental health issues, etc, but for an OCD sufferer they really need to be understood maybe more than most mental illnesses/disorders because we can get caught in a never ending loop-cycle inside of our brain of trying to itch that scratch for some sense of footing with regards a sense of certainty in our heads, finally, amidst a brain firing imbalanced uncertainty at them all of the time. It’s futile to play with an OCD brain. It’s impossible for a sufferer to actually understand what life might be like to actually get to think in a straight line, minus the OCD. We will have tried to imagine it. Tried to get our minds to actually get to that mindset. And we will undoubtedly have gotten there for a while. It happened me a few times in my life, and once after a certain night out – whatever it was with the alcohol, for about two hours the following evening I knew JUST HOW IRRATIONAL OCD IS until, well, it started to pull the strings inside of my brain again and, soon, I was back at square one. But imagine trying and falling impossibly short because of a mental imbalance that really does play no part in your real mindset and with each and every next attempt that your brain is forced to make. It’s strange that it doesn’t do that particular thing because, while it will of course affect a sufferer’s personality, as in how they react and act to things and people owing to the frustration, their truest beliefs and personality is undeniably still saturated beneath all of that imbalance happening begging for a calm release. Dunno how or why that is, but for that reason amongst a million others I really do have to salute OCD sufferers for hanging in there. It’s unmatched for it’s… level of ‘get up and go again, and again… ANNNND again… and, etc etc.” 🙌