For a brief ten-minute period, I absolutely lost it. It had been building up for a while. The systematic OCD rituals over and over again had taken a toll on my cognitive wirings. Did I wash my hands long enough, are the blankets in perfect order before I lay down, and re-reading texts literally six times to make sure they’re perfect. It just wouldn’t stop, and it started to strangle the life out of me like a reticulated python.
Hi everybody, my name is Nicholas Bartlett, and I’m in the process of healing from a mental illness known as obsessive-compulsive disorder.
I didn’t really know I had
→ Continue reading at Oregon Sports News