Please Stop Saying You Are “OCD”
It’s Not a Description, It’s a Debilitating Mental Illness
5 min readJun 7, 2022
I am 8 years old and trying to walk through the hallway to get to the bathroom. I am gripped with panic because I cannot seem to just walk. Something is telling me to touch the walls on both sides of the hallway before I can take a step. So I touch the walls, I take a step, and my panic increases.
