Madi’s Reviews > The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought > Status Update

Grit your teeth in the face of your thoughts and for God’s sake be more obstinate, head strong and wilful than the most stubborn peasant or shrew. Indeed, be harder than an anvil … If necessary speak coarsely and disrespectfully like this: Dear devil, if you can’t do better than that, kiss my toe.

‘Kiss my toe, OCD’, that’s what I should have said. But I wasn’t ready. Not yet.