My youngest daughter, J, suffers from OCD. Rituals..and "checking". It first manifested itself when she was 10 years old. She came to me and said that she was afraid that if she did not keep washing her feet...so many times per day..well...that she would turn into a cartoon character.

Then as a teen...she started chanting "no change..no change several times per day. I asked what was happening....& she said that if she did not repeat this "chant" that she would turn into a "fat' man"

It comes and goes with this very strange disorder.

She has a very good job as a registered nurse. I worry that at some point it will disrupt her life. She is on medication and sees a T.

Does anyone here identify with these very strange rituals? And, what are your thoughts??

~Dottie