I love how Jhon Green openly talks about his OCD and how it impacts him. It really makes me realize how much more work there is to take about mental illnesss out there and how little some people know about them. I’ve done research about OCD but many people still think it’s just a person that likes to be overly tidy and this pulls into the stigma that we have for mental illnesses and TB.

I myself, feel that I have OCD and have struggled with the idea of getting diagnosed and reading this book and Turtles All the Way Down make me realize that my thoughts patterns are not somthing just I am experiencing but others experience as well and suffer from.

The insight about how the gut mircobiome was really eye opening seeing that I never knew that your own gut flora could influence how you think.