Image Credit: Goodreads In middle school, I remember eagerly anticipating the start of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders. The story, my teacher and friends told me, was electrifying and…
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Image Credit: OCD UK You are so brave and quiet, I forget you are suffering. ~Ernest Hemingway This year, my obsessive compulsive disorder diagnosis turned old enough…
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TW: Discussion of OCD related to gender and sexuality, intrusive thoughts My earliest memory is of a mental image that won’t go away. A girl in a white pinafore…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayCultureZeno’s Paradox and the Yom Kippur War: An OCD Memory by Howard Lovy
Photo Credit: Max Lovy It was raining the morning of October 6, 1973—the day before my eighth birthday, and the day of the Yom Kippur War—so they put a…