good analogy

[Guest guest]

I was reading " Freeing Your Child From

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder " last night and really

liked the 'Explanation for Teenagers' on page 179

(copyright2000 in case there are others?)

Briefly -- you are in class and the teacher keeps

yelling that there is a fire but you look around and

there is no evidence of a fire and no one else is

worried. (The book does a much better job.)

It's supposed to help the teenager understand that it

isn't his fault and stuff. But it helped me (one more

baby step) toward understanding what it must be like

to have OCD.