Half of obsessive compulsive disorder cases are misdiagnosed. After 20-plus years, this is how one woman found the help she needed.
, and oftentimes those patients fall within a minority identity, including women, non-white Americans, and those within the LGBTQIA community. That's why we created Finally Diagnosed: a monthly series dedicated to highlighting the stories of those who've been overlooked by their doctors and forced to take their health into their own hands in order to get the care they deserve.
"I just knew that I felt like I had this fear and almost like this darkness inside of me that made everything awful." She was in college at the time and began to have obsessions over her classwork."My schoolwork took a really long time to do because I would do it over and over and over again, trying to get it perfect," Alexandra says.
Her worst obsession involved driving. While behind the wheel, Alexandra would begin to think:"I'm going to have a heart attack, and not be able to control my car, and I'm gonna hit somebody with it, and we're all going to die." These thoughts would lead to a panic attack, which reinforced Alexandra's fear."And so driving became super, super hard for me," she says.
She would get into a pattern where she was stable for weeks or months at a time."But eventually I would kind of have a period where I crashed and burned. And, you know, that might look like not doing so well in a class, or having a really bad depressive episode. Or a couple of times I attempted suicide, because my disorder was still raging." By the time she reached her mid-30s, she decided"something has to give, because I can't keep living my life this way.
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