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“OCD felt like my protector” – Kiran’s story
For me, one constant accompaniment to OCD is a sense of threat. The threat could be germs, which might become linked to a person or object. This leads to mental heaviness, wherever that threat is (on me, someone else, an object, in the air). Everything is …