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Howie Mandel Opens Up About His 'Painful' Struggle with Anxiety and OCD - Yahoo Entertainment
Jun 09, 2021 1 min, 6 secs
And I still haven't been that open about how dark and ugly it really gets," Howie Mandel tells PEOPLE.

Howie Mandel has been living with severe anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder for nearly his entire life, but for the America's Got Talent judge, every day is still a struggle.

"I'm living in a nightmare," says Mandel, 65, who first exhibited symptoms of his OCD - repetitive and intrusive thoughts and fixations, often brought on by his debilitating fear of germs - as a child.

But at the same time, I can fall into a dark depression I can't get out of," he tells PEOPLE for one of this week's cover stories.

Wed to wife Terry since 1980, Mandel, who is dad to son Alex, 31, and daughters Riley, 28, and Jackie, 36 (who also suffers from anxiety and OCD), says the pandemic was especially triggering for his mental health.

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In speaking up now, "my life's mission is to remove the stigma," says Mandel

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