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My OCD was spiralling out of control – and I set off to visit all 195 countries

Cameron Mofid was 20 when his mental health worsened during Covid. In need of a distraction, he began scrolling travel sites, and realised there was an extraordinary record he could potentially break. His journey would change everythingIn May 2020, a month into the first Covid lockdown in Miami, Florida, 20-year-old student Cameron Mofid found his obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) beginning to spiral out of control. “I was first diagnosed with the condition when I was 12. It produces obsessive thoughts that drive compulsions like washing hands, tapping or endlessly replaying conversations. When I was alone in the apartment with nowhere to go during Covid, those intrusive thoughts got much worse,” he says. “It can become paralysing being stuck in a mental loop. It was worrying and I felt like I really needed to get out of my head and that space.”With nothing else to do, Mofid began searching through travel destinations on his laptop, hoping for a near future where borders would reo...


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