The Room With Two Windows

She thought a ghost was haunting her. She was wrong - but not by much.As a small child, the author didn't have a word for what was happening in her head - the voice that insisted something bad would happen unless she did something about it, again and again. So she called it a ghost, and she never told anyone.By eighth grade, she was thriving: three gold medals, a spot on every dance team, a car she helped build for a competition at IIT Roorkee. Then COVID came, the world shrank to the size of her bedroom, and the ghost came back - except this time it had a real name: OCD.The Room With Two Windows is the honest, unflinching account of what came next - the guilt, the compulsions, the year she could barely get out of bed, and the two conversations with her father, years apart, that finally changed everything. It's also the story of what came after: therapy, medication, and the slow, ongoing work of becoming someone new without erasing who she'd always been.This is a memoir for anyone who has carried something they didn't have words for - and a reminder that it's never too late to ask for help.Ask for help. Don't be afraid.