Key Highlights
- “I got my brain scans, and that’s when I got on medication—which, to this day, I’m on every night,” she told Vogue.
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterised by unwanted, intrusive thoughts that become an obsession, causing significant anxiety and leading to repetitive behaviours or mental acts performed to relieve that anxiety, often becoming time-consuming and interfering with daily life.
- Common obsessions involve contamination, harm, or symmetry, while compulsions include excessive washing, checking, or arranging, with causes linked to genetics, brain chemistry, and environment.
- To prevent any kind of triggers in her early career, Amanda said she had to take many precautions, like “drinking too much alcohol, or doing any drugs at all, or staying out too late”—a much different experience from her peers in the industry at the time.
- “I would make plans and then just not go,” she said with a laugh.
