Hey folks this is Kevin on this week's episode of risk you'll hear

Zerman Zane so for the rest of my high school years I woke up often and saw this woman

standing in the doorway of my room and I just rolled back over and went to sleep and told

myself it was a dream it was my imagination and no one was really there.

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Folks, we've heard some jaw-dropping stories on the show before, but sometimes the stories our own minds tell us can be the most jaw-dropping of all. If you've ever been caught off guard by disturbing unwanted thoughts, you might know what we mean. When something violent or taboo or embarrassing bursts into your mind,

it can leave you reeling and wondering, what does that thought say about me?

Well that happens to almost everyone but for people with obsessive compulsive disorder

or OCD they tend to cause a lot of distress and feel impossible to stop thinking about.

A good friend of mine has O. C.

So I've witnessed this struggle up close and it's taught me a lot about how serious and misunderstood the condition is.

People think O. C. D. is only about hand washing or organization.

O C. C. D can latch on to anything,

but it often focuses on the things we care about most. In an attempt to make the distress from

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