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When partners don't understand OCD rituals

My husband does not understand why I need to arrange things in specific ways and thinks I am just being difficult.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The invisible nature of mental compulsion creates a gap between inner necessity and outer appearance that isolates the sufferer in their experience.

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