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Why Is Managing OCD So Hard? anxiety coping strategies coping with ocd disease management family support intrusive thoughts managing ocd mental health awareness mental heath ocd ocd parenting ocd symptoms overcoming ocd treatment options triggers Apr 11, 2024

I was speaking with a worried mom about her daughter. The mom said, "I just don't get it. My daughter talks about her misery in living with unmanaged OCD. She says she wants to be freed from it. She knows what to do. The question is, why isn't she doing it?”

 

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Vicki Rackner MD

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I'm on a mission: empowering family members touched by OCD to take back their power and be a force for healing. I'm the mother of a son diagnosed with OCD when he was in college, physician and certified coach.

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