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Amelia Boone: Obstacle Racing and Mental Health Warrior

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The Gift and the Curse of OCD

Amelia Earhart says her OCD is like having a hammer and all you know how to do is hammer things. The dark side of that is when there's an intrusive thought of what's the meaning of life, she writes. She finds it more beneficial for herself to try and tamp down the volume as opposed to channeling it somewhere. "I think if I look at periods in my life, I still kind of see that like obsessive compulsive, like fueling some of the things that I do really well"

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