Manny Padilla is a 17-year-old musician living with severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Tormented since a young age by the belief that one wrong action could open a portal to another dimension and tear him away from everyone he loves, Manny has engaged in nearly constant compulsive behavior that has prevented him from basic functioning. In 2021, Manny began ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention), an intensive treatment that demands he confront his core fears head-on. Directed by Charles Frank, a filmmaker living with OCD, this film is a realistic depiction of a person’s struggle with a debilitating mental illness, a rare opportunity to witness this unique therapeutic approach and an urgently needed correction to popular misunderstandings of OCD.
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