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Mental disorders are more common than you think
About one in four American adults ages 18 and older suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. Mental illnesses such as mood disorders are prevalent throughout societies around the world, yet these disorders largely remain hidden behind smiling faces and closed doors. Mood disorders like anxiety, depression, bipolar, and obsessive compulsive disorder…
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Overcoming OCD: What my compulsions taught me
There I was, trapped in my room with no where to go. It had become my last refuge and now a self-contained cell. I was a living contradiction: both the prisoner and the gatekeeper. This is what OCD had reduced my life to: hiding away from all of my fears in the confines of my…