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Will I suffer from OCD forever?
When I first read that OCD is chronic, I panicked. Was I going to suffer from these thoughts forever? Later, I learned that having OCD is not the same as suffering from OCD—with the right treatment, I could learn to manage OCD long-term. By doing exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy with a specialty-trained therapist and working to accept uncertainty, I changed my life. Today, I live even better than I did before OCD struck. Read more about my discovery that while OCD may be chronic, you don’t have to suffer from it forever.