Dear Abbey, OCD can sometimes make us a bit rigid

There is a recent study that was done and OCD sent an email out about it, how people They've actually found that more people than they thought have OCD.

They used to think it was like 2% of the population has OCD, which is a lot of people.

But now it's almost close to 4% of the population.

So seeing that was kind of shocking, but also it made me more excited.

aware and motivated to talk more about OCD.

I started the podcast talking about everything, but mostly I focus on OCD.

And that's just something that I go back to because my OCD journey was just such an integral part of who I am now.

why I am the way that I am, why I have any confidence at all, and also why I'm so passionate about mental health in general because of being diagnosed with general anxiety and then later on after 20-something years getting actually diagnosed with OCD and then that changing everything for me.

I'm very passionate about this and sometimes I forget my passion almost because I don't struggle as much with OCD.

I still have like thoughts and feelings and the annoying struggle of... just having to have these intrusive thoughts very often.

That's always going to be a struggle for me because they just won't go away, but they are less and I care about them less.

So sometimes I forget what it's like to really be in the trenches of struggling with OCD and anxiety or depression and all of that stuff.

But like probably once a month, I'm reminded of My history, I'm reminded of my my past.

I'm reminded of my present as well.

The fact that I do still have this disorder and it's still present in every single day of my life, that it might be present for the rest of my life in some way or another.

And when I think about that, it helps me.

understand myself again, like all over again.

So that's why I want to talk about OCD and dealing with uncertainty, wanting to figure everything out and not knowing where to put that doubt or not knowing how to handle the doubt that comes up and the consistent making you feel like nothing's real.

And that you can't trust anything.

And you can't trust yourself.

So, anywho.

That's what we're going to talk about in the main topic of today's episode.

We're going to get back into it in just a second.

But first, we're going to do dubs and L's.

And then we're going to go into the details.