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Alison Dotson is a writer, copyeditor, and proofreader who was diagnosed with OCD at age 26, after suffering from “taboo” obsessions for more than a decade. Today, she still has occasional bad thoughts, but she now knows how to deal with them in healthy ways. She lives in Minnesota with her two dogs, Tuffy and Gracie.

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	Being Me With OCD: How I Learned to Obsess Less and Live My Life 3.86 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Tackling Mental Compulsions: Mary Feldman

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: For almost twenty years, I had no idea I had obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) because I thought people who had it were scared of germs and washed their hands a lot, or maybe they checked to see if the stove was off over and over again. Even when I started to piece together that my distressing thoughts were obsessions, I still thought I was missing the C

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“Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.” —Publius Syrus”
― Alison Dotson, Being Me With OCD: How I Learned to Obsess Less and Live My Life

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