2023-06-13 16:02:36
MY HEAD AND ME (7/7) – In this seventh and final episode of season 3 of “My head and me”, the “20 Minutes” series on the mental health of young people, Clara, 17, talks regarding OCD from which she has suffered since the fifth
You too, when you were a child, you had to walk exclusively on the white stripes of the pedestrian crossing, otherwise you thought that something was going to happen to you? I do. But as we grew up, those thoughts went away. Not at Clara’s. Quite the contrary. The 17-year-old high school student lives daily with disturbing, repetitive and uncontrollable thoughts, which are called obsessions, and which generate in her a significant anxiety. So to reduce her anxiety, she performs repetitive, irrational and uncontrollable gestures. In short, she has from OCD.
“I count my steps, I count how many times I chew when I eat […] I tell myself that if I don’t do it, people around me will die. “Since the fifth, she suffers from TOC of counting, to which have been added more recently contamination TOC. Clara is afraid of being dirty, of getting sick. So she no longer wants to touch the door handles, even of her apartment. “I can no longer leave my house without being accompanied by my mother or by someone, so that this person opens the doors for me because there are some that I consider to be contaminated. »
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