Round and round and round

Like a Catherine wheel,

Unstoppable and dangerous to the touch;

The mind in trauma,

The body in knots

In this infinite horizon

Of thought and confusion

No single demand is ever sufficient

To alter or stop the rotation,

Though it is a part of me

It controls itself,

I submit, helpless

To its irrational power;

It obeys its own list of rules

Yet there must be a way out;

Perhaps an irrational way

To rationalise

The irrational,

To free ones self

From that part of ones self

Which behaves apart from ones self:

To kill the obsession

Before it kills me…

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Author of A Life Lived Ridiculously: When a girl with obsessive compulsive disorder, falls in love with a sociopath, she must fight for her sanity and her life
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