Writing as a Character with OCD

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I have been working on a short story called 'What Crazy Looks Like'. It's written from the point of view of a distressed woman with OCD and is a response to global ignorance surrounding a seriously ill woman, who sent compulsive texts to a lover.

I won't embarrass the girl further by linking to the material, but let's just say that her text history was posted online and used for humour purposes, even though she was clearly very unwell. Furthermore, hundreds of readers took the view that the lo...