A Brief Overview of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Casey Braga
5 min readJul 4, 2022
Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash

Like many mental health diagnoses, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) comes with its fair share of stereotypes. You wouldn’t be alone if the first thing that pops into your mind is an image of someone washing their hands multiple times a day, a meticulously clean home as the backdrop. These are common stereotypes, and though they could be represenative for some folks with OCD, this stereotype is a far…

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Casey Braga

I’m just trying to learn as much as I can when I’m here. Student of counselling psych and my many mistakes. Soft-hearted, open-minded, slow-moving.