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I wasn't diagnosed with OCD until I was

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until recently,

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like three years ago, two years ago,
it was my COVID project

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and it's something I've always had,
but I didn't have the language for it.

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I didn't know what OCD was, right?

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I was like, "Well,
I'm not particularly worried about germs

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and I don't count things,
so I don't have it."

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And it's like, "No, you do."
You ritualize everything.

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You have this magical thinking
that if a stuffed animal is aimed

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at a door somehow,
you're protected, right?

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And it builds up.

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But,
I didn't have the language or the space.

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And once I had, I knew the resources
and the coping skills,

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then I was able to move through it.

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I'm someone who will live with OCD

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till the day I die,
but now I'm in control of it

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and I'm a person who
lives with it, not OCD has me.