Colts' Braden Smith details struggle, recovery from severe OCD

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Colts veteran offensive tackle Braden Smith missed the final five games of last season because of a personal matter.

Now, he's detailing just how intensely personal the situation was.

Smith, in an interview with the Indianapolis Star published Tuesday, said he was engaged in a lengthy mental health battle as he struggled with a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder that prompted him to spend 48 days in a treatment facility and to ultimately resort to a psychedelic drug that he believes helped save him.

He was so tormented, Smith said, that he contemplated suicide.

"I was physically present, but I was nowhere to be found," Smith told the newspaper. "I did not…