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“Some people with OCD are compelled to pick up pieces of broken glass from the street. They worry that, if they don’t, then someone else might cut themselves on the glass. If the person with OCD fails to prevent that happening, they think, well I may as well have walked up to the stranger and deliberately hurt them. So they take”

David Adam, The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought
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The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought by David Adam
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