I Was the Poster Girl for OCD. Then I Began to Question Everything I’d Been Told About Mental Illness
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I Was the Poster Girl for OCD. Then I Began to Question Everything I’d Been Told About Mental Illness
That ‘individual responsibility’ idea is present in so many messages from awareness campaigns: the idea that it is our duty to reach out to loved ones and services for help; the suggestion that mental health support should come in the form of a ‘service’ at all; the emphasis on individual tools like therapy, meds, self-help, mindfulness and apps to
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