How to Deal With OCD

I think anybody with these sorts of, with OCD, especially maybe even before they realize it, would think, you know, I'm a smart person. But at the same time when you're engaging in some of those compulsions, at least for me, I kind of knew in one part of my head that, that none of this made sense. People with OCD have the awareness that their fears, their behaviors are irrational or that they're excessive. It was just easier for me to harm my hands than it was to exist with the idea that something bad might end up happening with my children.