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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). I distinctly remember that queasy feeling of being both powerful and powerless – what I now understand to be the dichotomy of having a control disorder that is out of control. This means that my core self and my OCD are in line.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

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One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. Schizo-affective disorder? I was self-employed and wondered if this hiatus would have an effect on my income and reputation. I’ve had worsening fantasies of harming or killing myself and I haven’t been able to get rid of them.