You know you love it - Friday the 13th. It's like giving the middle finger to that superstitious OCD side of yourself. We all have it, that part of the primitive brain that believes in protection, amulets, and the like. Let's talk about superstition and then dive right into this happy Friday the 13th. When looking through some superstitions, it becomes apparent that it would be hard to get through an entire day if you had to stop and observe all of them. Superstitions are the belief that something supernatural can affect our physical world unless the human does some magical gesture. In some forms of OCD, this magical belief is part of a dysfunctional thinking pattern that leads a person compelled to keep checking a lock or taking a certain amount of steps in every sidewalk square. Superstition is found in religions and folklore. Ask an athlete who keeps a penny in his left shoe-he made a superstitious correlation that he had something amazing happen when he did that and hencefo...