Elizabeth McIngvale
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 Elizabeth McIngvale facts

• She herself was diagnosed with OCD at the age of 12, and at age 18 became the national spokesperson for the International OCD Foundation
• She lives in Houston, Texas and is the daughter of area businessman Jim McIngvale and his wife Linda
• At one point doctors believed McIngvale's OCD was too severe to be treatable
• Her rituals included having to repeat menial fulling tasks 42 times, an obsession with religious symbolism, and washing her hands over 100 times a day
• Elizabeth engaged in exposure with response prevention (ERP) treatment for her OCD and now successfully manages her illness
• She completed her Bachelor’s degree in 2009 and Master's in 2010 from Loyola University Chicago
• She earned her PhD from the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work in 2014
• She is now an assistant professor at Baylor University in the Social Work department and at Baylor College of Medicine
• Elizabeth McIngvale serves on multiple non-profit boards and is an advocate/speaker for mental illness on a national platform