She Got Particular Taste

FICTITIOUS PSYCHOLOGY SERIES #4:
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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After a tragic event in her life, Zethria Luz Cruz was diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) when she was ten. For almost twenty-five years of her life, she couldn't remember how was it like to live without her disorder. She got used to herself washing her hands multiple times until it almost bled, checking the door lock if it's really lock even though she knows she locked it in the first place, or edging away from a pile of dirty clothes as if it would swallow her whole.

Zethria underwent therapies and medications to control her obsessive compulsions and tried to live her life like normal people do. She couldn't talk about her disorder outside the therapy room for OCD was not socially accepted and the society was too busy to lend an ear to hear about any kind of mental illness.

However, no matter how hard she try, the past wouldn't let her to move forward. The wounds and traumas haunted her present and healing process in the most unexpected and painful way. One day, Zethria found herself drowned with her own thoughts and suffocated with her fears. Her life would turn up side down and down and down. Would she still be able to regain herself?