How I Realized I Had OCD
My Story of Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
5 min readMar 8, 2021
This article is part of the column Overthinking Everything at She Explores Life.
I was in college the first time I experienced anxiety — the kind that hollows out your stomach, making you feel a stranger to your own body. I became weak. I ached with hunger but could not eat. At night, my heart would beat…