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You and your wife seem like wonderful people. My questions are: have you lived in South Africa your whole life? What's it like? Which important life experiences shaped you into person you are today?

on August 4, 2012August 11, 2012 By Zaid Ismail

Thank you…I’ll definitely pass on the compliment. 🙂 I’ve lived in SA my entire life, with two short stints living abroad as well. I spent a year in Saudi and 6 months in Tunisia. South Africa is often under estimated, over simplified, and grossly misunderstood. It’s beautiful and horrible at the same time. We spend [...]

Another Anon but same OCD…

on July 27, 2012June 21, 2016 By Zaid Ismail

I have to wash my hands sticf´tfully and sometime more than two times and it injures my skin. If I take a shower I don't really feel the need to be strict with my body but my hands always have to be clean. Or if I feel like something that touched my pubic area(awra) I [...]

Question: OCD With Personal Hygiene

on July 25, 2012May 18, 2014 By Zaid Ismail

Aslmkm brother, your wife had actually led me to your ask box. I was wondering if you can tell me anything or any way to help my sister who has severe ocd to the point she cannot use her bar of soap more than once or touch her own mother. She will not see a [...]