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From Living with OCD to Working with it

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The author Natalia Aniela Aíza My journey as an OCD therapist (and what I have yet to learn). The skin would bubble and puss, and I would focus all my anxiety on that searing pain. My OCD version of shoplifting – the same item from the same store at the same time of day, every day – obviously got me caught.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

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Anxiety so strong it tightened my chest to a choking point and made me feel like cutting myself to bleed the anxious feelings out of my system. Yes, one for depression and one for anxiety. I’d had the same passive suicidal thoughts, ramped-up anxiety and cutting fantasies. Once he arrived, I got the standard set of questions.