Understanding becomes better

It is a complex space
the one I am trying to enter
or rather the one I am
already in
the space where I write this from
it is called
the mind of an obsessed
highly complicated
I met up with psychiatrist
Doctor MJ Thomas yesterday evening
a very humble manextremely eager to help
we sat in his clinic
and he answered all my questions
patiently
with a smile
I attentively heard
every bit of it
We started talking
about the project
I asked him to define OCD
referring to my name
he asked me if I had seen people
chanting mantras
and I nodded
he said that it was a compulsive act
the thought that
something bad might happen
being the reason
so what leads to an obsession is
a fear in the form of a thought
which leads to
the development of
a certain amount of anxiety
in the person
to act
most of the times
in an irrational way
and this is what makes
an obsessed mind different
from other people
an obsessed mind gets stuck
to an idea or a thought
while a normal mind
let’s go
a normal mind
doesn’t care
an obsessed mind exaggerates
I keep questioning again and again
the definition of ‘normal’
but I guess it is something
that gets commonly accepted
within the society.

he was really interested
in knowing what I will be doing
with all the research
a piece of advice:
do not make the form abstract
because something strong and
important needs to be communicated
the simpler, the better.

I asked him if I could
meet some of his patients
but he told me that
they might not talk to me
about their obsessions
because the trust factor
is missing since they don’t know me.

He also said that
medication is important
as external factors stabilize
the chemical imbalance
in the brain
and therefore
some extreme cases
have to depend on medicine for life.