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While it’s common to experience an increase in trauma-related mental health symptoms following atraumatic event, fortunately, most people are able to recover from trauma on their own without any intervention needed. More recently, research has begun to understand that some people who experience trauma may develop obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Today, I am hammering out a question that I get at least once a day: how to tell when it’s more than just anxiety. In this day and age, with social media, it seems like everything is a diagnosis, and everything is a problem. I was on TikTok the other day, and I saw a […]