Meet My Monster Friend,
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“Why am I acting like this? What’s wrong with me?”
Those are some of the questions I have been asking myself for a year now, maybe my whole life. While the answers to those questions may seem impossible to find, there was actually an answer. I have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety. The day I was diagnosed in November of 2020, things began to fall into place. My struggles became much clearer to me. The reason why I was always running late? My OCD. The reason why I felt I wasn’t getting my homework done as efficiently as the rest of my friends? My OCD. And the list goes on. While those issues may seem miniscule and small, OCD and anxiety can be pretty challenging monsters to defeat. But, in the end, I did. Now, my OCD and anxiety didn’t just disappear, I just learned how to manage it. It took some time, but I
