As founder & creator of NEATFREAK APPAREL, INC ® (a non-profit corporation), I've suffered with a severe case of OCD  for more than 40 years.  As a child and young adult I was made fun of, called names, criticized and judged for my strange tendencies that other individuals didn’t seem to have, or exhibit like myself.  Growing up with a [medical] condition that nobody ever talked about, or knew little of, I was excessively teased and ridiculed for my obsessive-compulsive behaviors. 

I eventually became so ashamed by what people would say, or how they would treat me, I began hiding who I really was and only able to find comfort behind closed doors, essentially living “in the closet."  I became so concerned with the labels society, friends and even family would put on me, that I rebelled against any acceptance of what I was suffering from; hindering me from help or treatment.  Teaching myself to harness the energies of my condition at a very young age, in turn created me to become an over-achiever and super-succeeder that very few could understand, let alone know what to do with, or how to satisfy.  By my early 20's, not only was I completely Obsessed with Perfection, Organization, Knowledge, Education, Cleanliness, Fears, and Chronic Phobias, but I was struggling with a very serious condition that medically I knew nothing about; finding myself alone and unequipped to navigate the confusion on my own, for almost 4 decades.