Dr Leigh Sheppard on managing OCD and being a doctor

The word challenge can’t be used enough in Dr Leigh Sheppard’s life, but it also sits alongside the words success and kick-ass.

By Ara Jansen

Dr Leigh Sheppard had already made it through high school and medical school before she was diagnosed with OCD and several other neurodevelopmental disorders.

That meant she had already established solid ways to live, cope and move through her life, with other people not really noticing she was different....

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