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OCD: Struggles & Supportive Strategies
Mandy Melton, LPC Mandy Melton, LPC

OCD: Struggles & Supportive Strategies

The term Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), is often visualized as someone with cleaning and perfecting tendencies. Because of pop culture, many envision someone washing their hands multiple times of the day or making everything orderly and pristine. However, there are several unknown parts to OCD, leading someone walking out the day to day struggles to feel isolated and at a loss of how to support themselves. Because of intense levels of anxiety, people with OCD often fear disclosing more to even loved ones, due to being seen as abnormal or judged.

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