Case Study: Samantha Mcallister

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Samantha McAllister seems like your average high school junior student with her popular group of best friends, blending right in with her crowd. However, looks can be deceiving as she suffers with Purely-Obsessional OCD and is drained with worries and thoughts which she believes will not shut off. This is her big secret, especially with her friends because she knows if she makes one wrong move they will all turn their backs, it’s happened before. As toxic as her friends are, she thinks by leaving them she would become crazier than she believes she

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