For anyone supporting someone labeled as having OCD, if you are looking to understand how it is, here is how my daughter described it to me…
Bound by rules and yet without a say
Unwelcome stranger always at the door
Continue on, begin another day
Touch is poison, keep the taint at bay
No-sleeping beast will gnaw you to the core
Bound by the rules and without a say
Forbidden places and forbidden ways
Forbidden words so much as start a war
Continue on, begin another day
The world is dark and friends will never stay
All you hold dear dust and nothing more’
Bound by the rules and yet without a say
But isn’t that what voices always say?
Teeter on the edge of chaos, of furore
Continue on, begin another day
Perhaps it will get bored and leave one day
Must these bonds remain forevermore?
Bound by rules and yet without a say
Continue on, begin another day
Thank you, Jessica Ferguson.
Who we are beyond labels is who we be.