Coming Clean: Living with OCD, by Hayley Leitch with Veronica Clark, is available to buy now. Hayley Leitch was just four years old…

…when she had a compulsion to jump over her father’s fishpond. Small for her age and unable to swim, Hayley almost drowned. One compulsion followed another until soon Hayley was performing exhausting rituals and was plagued with intrusive thoughts every day.

As she grew into a beautiful young woman, Hayley became so obsessed with germs that she couldn’t get clean enough. Her fear of contamination became so bad it prevented Hayley from holding each of her three children at birth.

With her husband’s support, Hayley found professional help and, slowly, she learned how to manage her cleaning compulsions and, by speaking so frankly, this remarkable young woman has brought the taboo subject of OCD into the public arena.

Buy Coming Clean: Living with OCD here.