By Daisy Yuhas — 2019
Autism and OCD frequently accompany each other; scientists are studying both to understand how they differ
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Being disabled means hundreds of thousands of people believe they always know better than you do.
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In June of 2018, the idea was born to bring an OCD training program to the Recovery House in Karachi, Pakistan. The inspiration was not only to address the scarcity of mental health services there but also to handle a lack of funding and an overall scarcity of knowledge about mental illness.
When a medication is being evaluated to modify the behavior of a person with autism, one must assess the risks versus the benefits.
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