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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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When OCD Is Misdiagnosed: Tracie Ibrahim

Ask Tracie Ibrahim—or “Taboo Tracie” on Instagram—to tell her OCD story, and you’ll likely walk away angry, sad, and in disbelief that she was treated so horribly as a kid and teen. And, you will be in awe of her. As she explains in more detail below, Tracie’s harm OCD was misdiagnosed, and she was in and out of psychiatric units for nearly a decade. When she finally received the right diagnosis a

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“Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.” —Publius Syrus”
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