I'm obsessed with the number 12


	I'm obsessed with the number 12

Tri-City Psychology

7-11-2008 8:28 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e9a664de-d99c-4ad8-b3e1-a49fce9cae35/C522226E-B214-42EC-9B0C-D61F8DFDEEDD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,2290002,00.html" href="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,2290002,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,2290002,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/img/E2FDC3DD-E8C7-486C-B08C-854C3C6032A3" alt="Hugh Turner for Experience" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,2290002,00.html">When I was a boy, my dad used to help me do my tables. For some reason, perhaps 
because it was the trickiest, he used to force me to repeat the 12 times table 
over and over again. I think it's what led to my obsession with the number 12, 
and the fact that I now count constantly in my head anything I see - eggs, 
potatoes, tins in the cupboard. I count to 12 and I'm calm.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,2290002,00.html">I have obsessive compulsive disorder, and counting, or numerating as I call it, 
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looking for answers. I can trace it back to 1968, when I would have been about 
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