A businesswoman is sharing her 'terrifying' experience with OCD in the hopes of raising awareness of the "widely misunderstood" mental health condition. Holly Moore had always suffered with some level of anxiety, struggling to be too far from home or stepping outside her comfort zone.
However, when she started to having constant intrusive thoughts and "waking up in cold sweats of terror", she knew she needed to get help urgently. Feeling like she was "going mad", Holly called a psychiatric hospital and begged them to admit her as a live-in patient, the Mirror reports.
The 45-year-old, from Wilmslow, Cheshire, was diagnosed with a type of OCD - a common mental health condition that causes a person to have recurring thoughts and repetitive behaviours that cannot be controlled - called Pure O, which stands for 'purely obsessional'. She suffered with the condition from 2005-2011, which caused her to have 'terrifying' thoughts rather than behaviours or rituals.
