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- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder that often involves intrusive thoughts, anxiety, and ritualization. While millions suffer from OCD, the disease is often misunderstood by the general public and misrepresented in the media and pop culture. 14-year-old Allison is an OCD sufferer who shares her personal struggles in hopes of destigmatizing the illness and creating a support community for others affected by OCD.
This video was originally published on Vice in 2020 and is being repurposed by Refinery29.
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For her to be this open at such a young age to educate, de-stigmatize and spread awareness about OCD is just so courageous and admirable. Respect to Allison.
Yeeeeeessssss. Wow. I'm so impressed by her. So much growth already. She's on the right path. FOR SURE. 😊
It’s really inspiring to see a supportive parent.
*stupid parent who encouraging their children's delusional problems.
She seems such a sweet and intelligent girl. It’s good her mother is understanding and supportive. Also good that there is more awareness of mental illness now, and more help available for sufferers.
As someone who started showing symptoms at 7 years old i can tell I have been through a lot. I didn't get my diagnosis until I was 17, and I have been in therapy for almost two years now. I very fortunate to be able to be in a position to were i can get treatment and be able to speak out about my OCD. Others do not have this ability, and that is why it so vital to help others
What a beautiful and self-aware young lady. I hope her journey is followed.
I suffer from OCD and I know exactly how you feel, sweet girl. From age three I not only had to count and recount and I did have tactile OCD. I’m in my 30s and sertraline helped me with my counting and my tactile OCD. Not saying anything I had will help anyone else, but just please know it will get better. Exposure therapy, CBT, RX and time helped me. May not help you, but keep going. There is a life out there where you can live without the ritualistic fears and the reassurance anxiety. I promise. I believe in you, girl. You can do it.
I have been diagnosed with OCD when I was her age but i had symptoms since 12 years old. Now im 26, it’s not easy, there ‘s a lot of up/down moments but you can do it ❤️.
Awesome Allison!! You’re an amazing advocate for people with OCD. You are an important and powerful voice!
i was diagnosed with ocd at 3 years old. i’m 26 now. i relate so strongly do all of this. i was almost completely housebound by agoraphobia in fifth grade and i didn’t complete a single high school class because my ocd was so bad. (i got a ged) and i dropped out of college bc it’s not for me/too challenging with my mental and physical disabilities. *however,* it can and does get better. it will always be here. it will wax and wane, but with time, lots of work, and community you can start to live a little more freely. you brain may quiet a bit and you’ll not compulse as often. rituals will dwindle and healing will happen. i’m still struggling with intense about of anxiety, fixation, obsessing and complying, intrusive thoughts, etc. but compared to how it used to be, i would have never believed it for me.
for others with ocd, especially who developed severe symptoms at a young age and/or didn’t have the most ideal home situation i highly recommended doing work to let your inner ocd cursed child know that we’re better now and they can rest. 🖤🖤🖤🖤
ps as my exposure i didn’t re-read or edit anything above. we’ll see if it’s coherent 😮💨🫠
Did medication help?
she’s so self aware and eloquently articulate, high hopes for her 🎉❤
Inspiring mother and daughter, what a fantastic team they are together.
She is very lucky to have a supportive mother. I have OCD and was diagnosed at a very young age like Allison. My mother abused me and called me "retarded". I was never loved and still at the age of 28, am treated horribly by my mother and my father.
truly happy for how much shes improving thank u for giving me a great inspiration glad i stumbled upon this video ❤️
What an inspiring and beautiful young woman! How can you not look up to her
So powerful. I have OCD and this video really resonated with me. Go Allison!
Was recently diagnosed with OCD 1 month ago and today will be my 4th ERP session. It’s very expensive, but I think it’s helping to rewire my brain in a way and give me new ideas/ways of coping and getting through daily life.
At times the OCD/anxiety/panic attacks take over but I try to remember to take one day at a time and reflect on how far I’ve come.
I’m on medication as well so that has helped the anxiety and the thought loops significantly. Although I do wonder if I’ll always live with these demons? And that scares me.
But I’ve been reading a lot of OCD fiction, autobiographies and self help books to feel a connection to somebody else who knows my pain. “Turtles all the way down” by john greene is an EXCELLENT fiction book about a teenage girl living with OCD.
Thank you, Allison! You are so brave!
It's feels so great that your mom is so supportive of you..she understands you..which is like essential for your progress..I need that too..but people don't understand..
She is so strong , brave and beautiful. She is such an inspiration.
I identify with so many things she said! I got severe OCD at 7, but didn't get therapy till I was 13 and was getting stuck in doorways and tying and retying my shoelaces for hours at a time, weeping while I repeated stuff over and over - I was utterly exhausted. Day to night, it was just repeat repeat repeat. I had a mean teacher as well in grade 6. I hadn't been diagnosed by that point because my mom didn't want to admit there was anything wrong with me, so I couldn't explain why my math wasn't done because I'd got stuck writing and rewriting and erasing until there was a giant hole in the paper. The nasty teacher would publicly mock me and then send me out in the hall to work on my math. Now I'm 38, and I still have bad OCD, but not AS bad. Possibly because I've been on medication for decades. The type of OCD I have has shifted a lot. I feel like people feel bad for you when you're a teenager with mental illness, but once you're out of your teens you're expected to just miraculously recover and the empathy sort of dries up. Something like 2 in 100 people are supposed to have OCD, but I don't know where they are, because I've never met anyone else who was diagnosed with it apart from a girl who was in my behavioural therapy class when I was 13.
Your not alone,sending love your way 🙏❤
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Ahhh yes this was a perfect example of OCD I love how she explains it! Totally relate!
I got my diagnosis at 5 when I was coloring and I was always organizing my crayons and now I am 11 still making things perfect
My older sister has OCD, this is very eye opening.
1:21 "Glass half empty". OCD is the disease of trying to control for uncertainty, so it makes sense that it can draw her towards seemingly pessimistic thinking. It's a disability, not a character flaw.
I hope ..you are doing fine..
I can totally feel you..
Reassurance seeking is really annoying..I am dealing with it..
Specifically making notes is really hard and time consuming..bcoz I need to recheck it multiple times if I wrote it write to move further...
I would write a paragraph and if I made one mistake I would throw the whole paper away and start over! Then I would become anxious about trying hard to not make any mistakes! A mistake could be that I didn’t like the way I wrote a letter or something I needed to erase! If the paper wasn’t clean of eraser marks, I would start over! I repeat a lot of what I say! I’m not sure why I do it! It kind of just happens! I will eat certain foods everyday multiple times a day for weeks, even months till I get tired of it! My biggest obsession is picking! I can’t stop until whatever I’m picking at is gone and the area is smooth! So it doesn’t have to be a wound it can be dry skin or a rough spot I perceive to be on my body! I’ll pick till it’s gone! I have scarred my arms, legs, body and face from picking! I used to pluck my eyebrows till they were gone trying to get them perfect! Nothing I’ve done has really helped with my OCD! I guess I just have to live with it!
I know how it feels to have ocd because I have it myself it really took me 5 times to type this.
i have OCD so i fully relate to this
I was diagnosed mid way through university. I wish my mum was supportive but she unfortunately she either attacks me for it or pretends it’s not happening
my parents would alays get mad at me for doing my compulsions and taking forever to check things. it would make me feel horrible as they would yell at me
Is this a reupload? I’ve seen it I think
If you click on the description, it says it was originally published on VICE in 2020
I knew it!
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Ah okay. I didn’t read the description. But that was definitely where I’d seen it. Thanks. It’s a great video. I hope she’s doing well today!
Relatable 🥺 Now i got some relief that iam not alone in this battle 💜Stay strong Guys 💜 can't we completely cure the ocd???Does anyone knows??
You can treat it! I know a lot of people who dont have any compulsion or anxiety .
You learn to live with it via therapy.
& still people think ocd is some clean freak .. smh
The fact that I can’t see this and not think about my compulsions and then do they makes me sad
I think you live with OCD because your parrents had OCD isues and unless they deal with them you wont be able to move on.
Her mother's behavior is concerning.
What are you talking about?