American Amber Pearson used to wash her hands until they bled, terrified by the idea of contamination from everyday items, a debilitating result of her obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Holy crap, that’s amazing!!

    I’m really intrigued about this, however - it’s like it needed some training to find the accurate ‘dosage’, or some sort of warmup/acclimation period:

    For Pearson, there was an eight-month wait after the 2019 procedure to see any noticeable difference.

    But gradually, the all-consuming rituals that had taken up eight or nine hours every day since her teenage years began to ebb.