How Growing Up With OCD Prepared Me For “Donald Trump’s America”

Disclaimer: There are many forms of OCD. It would be hard to condense everything in this article about OCD or all of my struggles with OCD in one article. This article only focuses on the aspect of OCD that prepared me for “Donald Trump’s America”

For those who don’t know, OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety disorder. Most people assume it’s an just about being neat, but that’s not the case.

It involves anxiety attacks,as well as intrusive images and thoughts that constantly pops into your head.

I will say, for the most part, the TV show the “Monk”, is a good representation of how OCD.

People with OCD are 82 percent more likely to die than the general population, from both natural and unnatural causes. It is ranked in the top 10 on the list of most debilitating illnesses in the world, even ranked ahead of Cancer and AIDS.

Although, I was officially diagnosed at 16 years old, the first time I would show symptoms of OCD was 9 years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was MLK weekend 2003, I heard “In Da Club” by 50 cent on the radio for the time, and the show that So Raven had just made its debut that Friday . Fast forward to that MLK Monday, my family watched a documentary on the murder of Emmett Till.