Alison Dotson is the author of Being Me with OCD: How I Learned to Obsess Less and Live My Life and the former president of OCD Twin Cities. She was diagnosed with OCD at age twenty-six, after suffering from “taboo” obsessions for nearly two decades. Today, she still has occasional intrusive thoughts, but she knows how to deal with them in healthy ways. Alison has spoken about her experiences with OCD with several media outlets, including The Atlantic, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Health.com, and NBC, and has presented at International OCD Foundation conferences. On her blog at alisondotson.com, she has interviewed over one hundred people with OCD as well as loved ones and therapists. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her two rescue dogs, Tuffy and Gracie, whose shenanigans make her laugh every day.