A Plague of Tics

This passage was sad yet intriguing to read. OCD is a condition that I have learned about before. Although I have learned many facts about the condition, I have never been exposed to OCD in quite the same way as when I read this story. It really describes the everyday life of a person with OCD very well. You may think that what they do is habitual, which it is, but you never think about what goes on in their minds. It was interesting to me to really get inside the author's head. To read the type of questions that he would have racing in his mind was shocking. Instances like if the lid on the mayonnaise was tight enough or not is something that doesn't normally cross our minds. Although, I have to admit that I have some weird habits myself, such as making sure place-mats on a table are perfectly straight, I couldn't even imagine having to live with something as intense as his condition. Granted, my "tics" are probably more me being anal about weird things and are a lot less harmful than his. On his side, it is more of his brain TELLING and FORCING him to go check that mayonnaise. On my side, I am not losing sleep over any place-mat that is not perfectly straight. This passage was extremely interesting to me and I now have more sympathy for those who live with such extreme cases.