This Is My Brain on OCD

OCD isn’t a preference for organization, it’s a campaign of fear your brain wages on your life

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I cannot get up. I don’t want to get up. I am safe in bed. I’m not safe when I’m not in bed.

But I have to get up.

So I sit up gingerly, carefully, cautiously. I push my duvet back and slide to the edge of the bed. I…