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Julie Gibbons is 25 years old. To people on the street she looks like a normal women in the prime of her life, but to those who know her well, know about the illness she suffers from daily. As soon as her alarm goes off in the morning, a feeling of dread comes over her. She immediately goes to the bathroom and washes her hands. She steps into the shower and washes her hands repeatedly between washing different parts of her body. After about 45 minutes in the shower she gathers her dirty clothes and immediately throws them in the washer. Once again, her hands feel dirty feel dirty to her so she returns to the bathroom to clean them again. Her hands become so raw that she must use moisturizer to heal them. The moisturizer makes her hands feel dirty...she wants to wash them again...she tells herself she is being stupid and if this continues much longer she will be late for work. She gives into the urge and washes them again. Kicking open the bathroom door, so to avoid contact with the germ-ridden doorknob, she hurries to make breakfast, which is followed by several more hand washes. Before she leaves she systematically goes from room to room locking and checking all the doors and windows.
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