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Emily Phillips & Saffron Otter

Mum convinced her children were dirty spent 5 hours a day cleaning amid OCD battle

A new mum who spent five hours a day cleaning after battling severe OCD says she was plagued with thoughts that her children and her bathroom were 'dirty'.

Angel Stagg, 25, claims she had a "constant voice in her head" saying her children weren't clean enough when struggling with postpartum depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) - a common mental health condition where a person has obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours - in May 2021.

The mum-of-two began to suffer from intense low moods after the birth of her daughter Evelyn, now two, in February 2020.

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