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One thing that confuses people in discussing OCD, as well as self-diagnosing themselves, is that the word “OCD,” as well as the word “obsession,” have quite different meanings when used colloquially and when used professionally. In discussing OCD, or in self-diagnosing oneself as having OCD...

One thing that confuses people in discussing OCD, as well as self-diagnosing themselves, is that the word “OCD,” as well as the word “obsession,” have quite different meanings when used colloquially and when used professionally. In discussing OCD, or in self-diagnosing oneself as having OCD...

As a long-term sufferer of OCD, who never has never used meds I have developed some insight in just how OCD works, which may be of some use to others suffering with this condition. The classic description of OCD is this: A negative thought gets enters a person’s mind and gets stuck there. The...

Let me enlighten people of what it was like to suffer with OCD from childhood (decades of horrible misery), especially when society was far less open and tolerant—and respectful—with other people’s psychological problems. Unlike today, where it is quaint to claim to have a disease (whether one...

Let me enlighten people of what it was like to suffer with OCD from childhood (nearly 50 years), especially when society was far less open and tolerant—and respectful—with other people’s psychological problems. Unlike today, where it is quaint to claim to have a disease (whether one has one or...

Let me enlighten people of what it was like to suffer with OCD from childhood (nearly 50 years), especially when society was far less open and tolerant—and respectful—with other people’s psychological problems. Unlike today, where it is quaint to claim to have a disease (whether one has one or...

I have suffered with OCD from childhood--in fact over 40 years. In my youth, society was not aware of mental illnesses, (no internet); it was not until my 40s that I found out that there was even another single person with OCD in the whole world. Actually I was in my late thirties before it was...