You’re not alone

Growing up with OCD/Anxiety was one of the hardest things I had to go through. On multiple levels from the struggles of not understanding why I was doing what I was doing or even what I was doing, to the struggles and hardship it caused to the people around me. I also grew up in a time when OCD/mental health didn’t really seem like a top priority in the world and there was not much research on OCD so medicine was being given out again in my opinion way to quickly without much thought about it.

With all that said and there was so much more, I would say the hardest thing was feeling all alone. No one I went to school with suffered from OCD or at least that’s what I thought. I didn’t have anyone to talk to about it or to let me know IM NOT “CRAZY”. To me its almost like training for en event weather it be sports or anything else, if you have someone next to you to support you, to push you, you will improve and you know you are not alone going through this struggle. It is same thing for mental health, if you have a support system, someone or multiple people by your side throughout the process helping you, guiding you, pushing you letting you know YOUR NOT ALONE it will make that process more manageable.

It’s the same thing if not harder if you start going through this as an adult. YOu can be going through just like a normal day and then BAM out of nowhere over a small pieriod of time you feel this anxious feeling and these weird ticks that you start to do and all the sudden you feel all alone. Your friends at work or your family, you are afraid to talk to them about with the fear about being judged. So now you are going through all these new feelings and emotions and everything that goes along with it alone. And instead of talking about it or working through it, you just keep inside and struggle inside which as we all know make the feeling and the little monster inside worse.

Know you are not alone, know you are not the only one going through this, know you are NOT CRAZY. Things will and do get better, but you need a team around you. You need to let it out and not keep it all in with the fear of being judged.