My OCD Story In 6th grade, I was homeschooled. Not because of anything anyone could see from the outside. But because everything felt darkly overwhelming. I didn’t have words for it then. The closest I could get was this. It felt like my soul was being ripped in half. That was the beginning. Or at […]

OCD Onset My life changed at the age of 16 during a trip to French Guiana. That is when Obsessive Compulsive Disorder began. The trigger was taking a medication (Lariam, mefloquine) to prevent malaria because I was traveling to a high-risk area. Within a few days, it caused me insomnia, nightmares, and intense anxiety. A […]

Personal OCD Story from Mourice Schuurmans For as long as I can remember, I dealt with everything on my own. Emotions, stress, fear, problems. I always found a way to push through. At primary school, I was bullied for years. At first it was verbal. Later, it became physical. At home, emotions were not really […]