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Seriously, OC probably means this: When you're having seemingly psychological affects/things that are just "part of who you are," it's almost impossible to begin to think that it might be some outside force.

I used to take a medicine which I thought was fine; in the mean time, I developed worse and worse depression, anxiety, and all the time I thought it was a reasonable reaction to stuff in my life. THEN I got paranoid and thought my best friend and boyfriend were out to get me. Finally, something snapped. Finally, I thought, "whoa, this is not me." Turns out it was ALL the medicine. Yes, I had reasons to be depressed, but that's just not my type. Ended the medicine, ended all the side effects.

It only took 3 years and a CRAZY extent of the side effects for me to realize it "wasn't me."



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