Hello everybody. This episode is going to be a little different. It's just going to be me talking about a recent

revelation I've had in my life with regards to mental health struggles I've gone through and the goal of sharing this is in its own right.

It's sort of therapeutic to talk about. Moreover, I think it helps other people feel less alone

who might be struggling with

something similar. It's a very common mental health disorder that many people

struggle with or know people who struggle with. It's broadly misunderstood in mainstream culture and sort of

simplified in these really absurd in silly ways that that sort of mystify the

real struggles and sufferings that this disorder can inflict on people. and I just wanted to put out my story in hopes that it could resonate with somebody else

and the fact that it took me 35 years to find out that I had this disorder even though I now realize I've had it since I was a child,

I think speaks to the fact that there could be people out there listening that might have it as well and don't know.

And when you're suffering from something and you don't know the name of it, you can't put your

finger on it, it can feel incredibly isolating, incredibly confusing, and you can think wrongly but

scarily that you're the only person that goes through what you're going

through and the disorder that I have and that I've had my entire life and that I'm going to talk about today is an obsessive compulsive disorder

It's it's it's broadly misunderstood in in mainstream culture. You know it's it's really simplified people will say things like oh I'm so

O. C. D you know I need the picture frame to be perfectly straighter it's going to

bother me or I'm O. C. D. I need my my markers markers color coded and lined up perfectly you know or I'm O. C.

I just I don't like germs but OCD is something much deeper than just preferences

it's much deeper than just preferences. It's much deeper than merely preferring

aesthetic symmetry. It's much deeper than merely noticing you have germs on your

hand and going and washing it. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a genetic neurological

disorder that can really fuck with people's quality of life. I'm by no mean an

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