Pinar Tarhan, a freelance writer who lives in Istanbul, Turkey, lives with #PureO, #HarmOCD (forms of obsessive compulsive disorder), and #bipolardisorder. “I thought I had lost my mind. Officially.”
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“I started having these thoughts in my head and images that were really disturbing, and I couldn't make sense of them because it just came suddenly and violently and intensely — and I had no idea what to do with myself."
Pinar's symptoms came on suddenly and surprisingly, in her early college years, and a diagnosis followed at age 19.
Pure O is a type of OCD in which a sufferer engages in hidden #compulsions. Instead of combating their #intrusivethoughts with visible rituals such as hand-washing or counting, they perform repetitive, mental rituals to minimize stress.
According to Pinar, “The way media portrays mental illness is that you have to have suffered some big tragedy some big loss or you have to have fought in a war to be able to earn the right to have PTSD, or you should have really awful parents right?”
Pinar’s journey doesn’t fit any of these stereotypes.
She is pleased to report that she suffered no great trauma, and she had a happy childhood. She does acknowledge that a series of small traumas may have contributed to her OCD. Of that time in her life, she writes, “I was bullied a little, annoyed a lot, and in return, grew to love my own mind.”
She’s a strong woman with a clear voice, and will surely correct the media’s inaccurate display of mental illness with her own writing. Pinar is a blogger and a screenwriter with “Hollywood dreams.”
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