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To get to yourself with OCD, or at least for me to get to myself, I’m gonna have to do all of these things and eventually make it an utterly second nature thing for my mind: 1) Not let the imbalance take a hold of my mind. Yeah, it is in my brain but that is not my fault, nor my problem, really. In so far as I must just let it be there. My brain is in pain, and it is my job to help settle it down 2) I must take on board all of the things that I have learnt over the years with the OCD and the exposures, etc. and really trust myself in living well and, what’s more, enjoy doing these things to a habitual extent eventually. It is what I am supposed to do, what I am trained to do in living well with OCD. 3) I don’t need to explain it to people, it is a mental disorder and people try and understand this as well as anyone can any such mental illness. It’s my thing to live well with and it’s my thing to, what’s more, thrive with while also having it. 4) Meditate every evening before my nightly sleeping tablet at 9 0’ clock: 1 hour, whatever I want and wish to do with my time and mind.

5) Be outlandishly proud of what I do to live well with this disorder. To realise just how amazingly I have done to achieve the level of calm that I have achieved over the years in listening and learning as diligently as I can to, and from, my psychiatrist Mairead O’ Leary.