Adam Ross: You get the thoughts, right? The bad ones that race in your head and you can't make them stop. You try and block them out and think about something else, but uh, doesn't work. So you, uh, you come up with these rituals. Just these little things that make yourself feel better. Counting, washing, unplugging things, pulling out your eyelashes.
Jake Kaplan: I, I thought I was...
Adam Ross: Thought you were a freak?
[Jake nods]
Adam Ross: Yeah, it's not your fault, Jake, okay? It's your brain and it's just playing tricks on you. It's called OCD and a lot of people have it.
Jake Kaplan: How do you know so much?
Adam Ross: Some of it's science. Hm, let me guess, your, uh, your dad just didn't understand what you were doing, right? Why you always had to check things.
Jake Kaplan: I had to 'cause if I didn't...
Adam Ross: Then you thought something bad was going to happen, I know.
Jake Kaplan: I had to keep him safe.
Adam Ross: So this all started after your mom died, right? The thoughts, the checking. Now, you see, OCD is usually triggered when something bad happens.
Jake Kaplan: I went up there 'cause, I just, I didn't want to go to the party and talk to all those people, but he found me. He made me so angry.
Adam Ross: The blank tile. That was the last game you played with your mom, right?
Jake Kaplan: She, she told me, she, she said the blank was me because it could be anything. I, I could be anything.
Adam Ross: She believed in you.
Jake Kaplan: Yeah. Then she went away. Sometimes, he was really mean, but I loved my dad.
Adam Ross: I know you did.
Jake Kaplan: I'm sorry. What's gonna happen to me?
Adam Ross: [Crying] You're gonna go away for a while, Jake.
