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Elizabeth McIngvale, Ph.D. (photo courtesy of Love Advertising)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

At the age of 12, Elizabeth McIngvale, Ph.D.<\/a>, was diagnosed with severe obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), a chronic and debilitating mental illness that causes uncontrollable, recurring thoughts and behaviors. About 1 in 100 adults\u2014or between 2 and 3 million adults in the United States\u2014currently has OCD, according to the International OCD Foundation<\/a>. That is roughly the same amount of people living in the city of Houston.<\/em><\/p>\n

As an assistant professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine<\/a> (BCM) and founder of the Peace of Mind Foundation<\/a>, a nonprofit foundation for OCD, McIngvale (daughter of Jim ‘Mattress Mack’ McIngvale) has dedicated her career to helping other people suffering from OCD regain control of their lives.<\/em><\/p>\n

Shanley Pierce: You were diagnosed with OCD when you were 12 years old. Tell me about your personal experience with OCD.<\/strong>
\nElizabeth McIngvale: <\/strong>I grew up here in Houston. We searched tirelessly for treatment. Obviously, we looked at the Texas Medical Center, being the biggest medical center in the world, and really wanted to get and find the care that I needed. We were hopeful that we could find it here, but at the time it just didn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

Three years later, my OCD had gotten worse. I continued to be more disabled by my illness, and it certainly impacted every facet and quality of life for me. My parents ended up finding The Menninger Clinic, which at the time was in Topeka, Kansas. I went to The Menninger Clinic at 15, spent about 90 days there and learned how to manage my symptoms. For the first time in a long time, my hope was restored in the belief that I could actually get better and that help existed for me. I left a different person. I really, for the first time, finally could manage my symptoms. I was functioning well. It\u2019s been a journey ever since then.<\/p>\n

SP: How did OCD control your life? <\/strong>
\nEM: <\/strong>When I was first diagnosed, a lot of typical OCD was around contamination\u2014fear that I was going to get contaminated, fears of different illnesses and diseases. More importantly for me, it wasn\u2019t a fear that I\u2019d become contaminated, but that I would pass it on and contaminate someone else.<\/p>\n

Secondly, I always struggled with scrupulosity, which is the religious form of OCD [scrupulous individuals worry that something they thought, said or did might violate religious doctrine]. In addition to that, I struggled a lot with unwanted intrusive thoughts. These were unwanted sexual intrusive thoughts, unwanted harming intrusive thoughts. This the form of OCD that isn\u2019t talked about as much and is more stigmatized. It carries a lot of shame and guilt for individuals who live with this category or subtype.<\/p>\n

I struggled a lot with all of those. I think, for me, the contamination was something that everybody could see. My parents could observe me getting stuck in the shower for six hours or being stuck over the sink. The scrupulosity they could observe a little bit because they would see when I was engaging in prayer, doing the sign of the cross or certain behaviors. But the unwanted intrusive thoughts\u2014I really had to deal with them on my own, internally. They were extremely disturbing. A lot of the rituals I did do were things like asking for reassurance, confessing or asking if things were okay to my mother.<\/p>\n

SP: Can you think of a moment when your OCD was at its worst? <\/strong>
\nEM: <\/strong>I don\u2019t know that I can pinpoint it to one. During the time of my severe suffering, around 7th<\/sup> or 8th<\/sup> grade, everything was a living nightmare. I woke up in the morning and wished that I wouldn\u2019t have woken up. I engaged in rituals from the second I opened my eyes until I finally was able to fall back asleep that next evening. I wanted so badly to be out of this nightmare, but I didn\u2019t see the possibility of that.<\/p>\n

We went to providers here in town and we were told the same thing\u2014that no one\u2019s ever seen a case as severe as mine, there\u2019s not help available for me, that my parents should accept that I\u2019ll live in a mental hospital the rest of my life. I really didn\u2019t believe help was on the horizon. I didn\u2019t actually even know that help existed for me or for the suffering I was going through.<\/p>\n

The days that stand out the most were the ones when I was begging family members to take my life. My faith was a protective factor for me and prevented me from acting on that, but I would ask them to do it because my rationale was that they would be forgiven. I was in so much pain and suffering that I had no desire to live because I didn\u2019t believe my life could be one worth living. Little did I know back then that there is so much hope and so much to live for. This illness is so manageable, as are most mental health conditions. But when you\u2019re in the throes of it, what I remember the most is the disability, the pain and the suffering that I had to endure every day.<\/p>\n

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