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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Saffron Otter & Paige Oldfield

Don't say you're OCD just because you're particular - 'Pure O' ruined my life

When you think about OCD, you might imagine someone with an immaculately tidy home. Maybe they have to have their books lined up on the shelf in a particular order.

While these might be rituals for someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder, for people like Holly Moore, it was much more than that. She always felt herself to have some level of anxiety - not wanting to be too far from home or be out of her comfort zone.

But it wasn't until intrusive thoughts began to take over her every waking moment that she realised she couldn't go on the way she was any longer. In desperation, she called up a psychiatric hospital begging them to take her in as a live-in patient, as she believed she was 'going mad'.

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