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Monday May 18, 2009

The man who walked backward & the doctor who turned him around

Ed Zine’s extreme case of obsessive compulsive disorder imprisoned him inside his basement for more than two years. The toll that it took on his body was staggering.

Ed’s OCD tells him, illogically, that if going forward in time moves him closer to death, reversing the action will carry him away from it, and if he can hold back the progression of time he will not age. If he doesn’t age, the people he loves will never die. This obsession keeps him trapped in a nightmare of perpetual rewinding rituals.

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