It was until she fully accepted her condition that she would be able to come to grips with it and learn how to live with it.
Wilensky associated drinking with a loss of control, but also realized that drinking would help lessen the tics, or at least make it seem like it. The OCD part of Wilensky connected her personal rules as a means for controlling the things her body did that she felt were negative. By drinking with friends, even if it felt good, she was breaking her own rules. She didn't feel like she could be normal like the other kids, because of her own self-designed rituals and obsessions, which completely consumed her life.
As with many individuals who have OCD and Tourette's, Wilensky managed to hide her problems with her need for suppressing...
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