It’s a helluva lot of time thinking and being preoccupied with and by a mental disorder, is OCD. It’s a lot of hanging in there and just really willing your brain on to be okay. Now. That sounds fairly deep and scary and eerie, even, but it is all of these things, for sure. But you go with it – hard and easy and all of the ways that you can. Giving it time of day is arguably one of THE most difficult things not to do that I can ever try and imagine. Yeah, it’s incomparable really, and it’s a lifetime thing and it’s one hundred percent that thing that set the scribbles in stone for me. It’s the thing that made me work at that in a very erratic nature for a long time, I guess you could certainly say. But the deal with this particular disorder is that you take everything on board that is happening around you while also letting the imbalance be there. What that imbalance does to a sufferer of OCD can vary, outlandishly. But it ends up doing the same to each of those brains – it sends you into a spiral of non stop rumination and non stop fear, etc. The level may very well vary, depending of course on the sufferer’s personal strength of Chronic OCD. But it’s a rabbit hole no one wants to ever again go down. It’s… none of these things like “it makes me so much more aware and able to empathise with people, etc.” People will feel their very own ways about having it, and the way I feel is that in order for me to actually be able to feel well with it, I’ve to do all of the things I’ve been rigorously taught to do. That’s it. It’s a brain imbalanced. In extremely precarious and fundamental parts of the brain. OCD. You have it. Always will. But by God can a sufferer live brilliantly well with it. But, yeah, support is utterly a fundamental thing too, of course, and if you’re lucky enough to have it in spades then, really, as well as owing it to yourself, you owe it to them to meet them at the middle and be as great as they have been to me 😃 ❤️