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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). My OCD version of shoplifting – the same item from the same store at the same time of day, every day – obviously got me caught. If I put my therapist hat on, I am able to identify my current OCD as “ego-syntonic.”

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

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So, I called my psychiatrist’s office and got an answering machine from an evidently-open urgent care clinic. I worked at a university for about ten years. I fretted a lot about my university job and how it had treated me. Clearly my husband wasn’t. Just call,” he insisted. Someone will be there.” Go to the emergency room!”