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What is OCD?

What happens when you have OCD?

  • Obsessions and compulsions can vary in OCD, but the way you fight back is the same.
  • We don’t really know the cause of obsessions and compulsions.
  • Sometimes it helps to think about them like a ‘hiccup’ of the brain.
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