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A Glimpse of What it Feels Like
“You have no idea what it feels like inside my brain,” My child once said to me, as I was losing my patience and compassion For what felt like the millionth time in his young life That he asked me if I had washed my hands before touching something And, he was right, as much as I tried, I (and others) could have had no idea what it feels like to live every single day With the unrelenting obsessions swirling around in the brain and the subsequent compulsions that follow To live each day with the level of anxiety that throws the body into such distress and drowns out all other thoughts And so I think about our society right now And how it may serve us all to have a small glimpse into the lives of those people whose brains feel this way