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How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John cover image

S2 George Ezra: ‘I’m not a freak, I’m not alone’

How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

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What Is Pure O?

Pure O is when you have the thought patterns and intrusive thoughts without any of the physical actions to relieve them. So those intrusive thoughts from my knowledge of what is can be very disturbing. It could be having sex with a sister or it could be killing your friend's baby. Or anything that you shouldn't have sexual activity with. And this, in its worst, it would be before, and this might be me dramatizing it, but when I remember the times, as if before my eyes had opened, they would have started until I went to bed and I wouldn't have lived. In my memory of it, it's like the choir starts singing. I start crying. Everyone's

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