Ask Tracie Ibrahim—or “Taboo Tracie” on Instagram—to tell her OCD story, and you’ll likely walk away angry, sad, and in disbelief that she was treated so horribly as a kid and teen. And, you will be in awe of her. As she explains in more detail below, Tracie’s harm OCD was misdiagnosed, and she was…
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OCD After Trauma: Jillian Halket
Jillian Halket has overcome—and accomplished—a lot in her young life. At just 28 she’s worked through trauma, substance abuse, and undiagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and now her first book is out! In her memoir Blade in the Shadow, Jillian shares her experiences with harm OCD and how she tried to cope with it before finally…
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It’s no wonder people with OCD are so afraid to tell people what’s going on. In “Obsessive Thoughts: A Darker Side of OCD,” the young author says she was suspended from school after she wrote an anonymous article about her harm OCD symptoms in the high school newspaper. School officials thought she was a threat…
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