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While sitting on stage as part of a panel during the final Q & A segment of the “OCD Awareness Day” event, I told a story about my pet spider Juan, the zebra knee Costa Rican tarantula that lives in an aquarium in my office next to my desk. Juan has been a part of my life for just over two years, but spiders, specifically tarantulas, have periodically lived in my brain for well over a decade. Disregarding rhyme or reason, the OCD living in one’s brain will produce thoughts an

This blog post is originally an email I sent to all teachers and administrators in my school. Over the course of the last several...