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Month: July 2016

My Story, Relationships

OCD and relationships: You and your kids

July 29, 2016

I have two children. They are both fairly young, which makes my perspective on OCD parent-child relationships perhaps a bit narrow. However, the fact remains that I am a person with OCD trying to deal with and raise children who hopefully won’t have similar issues to my own.

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Kari Ferguson
A Step Back, Everyday Thursday

Everyday Thursday

July 28, 2016

We recently got back from a “vacation.” I write vacation in quotation marks because my husband was still working, but we went somewhere and did sort of vacation-y things sometimes. At other times, I made the kids sit and read or play quietly on their hotel room beds or watch TV shows or something. Because being with…

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Scripture Snapshot

Scripture Snapshot: “Freedom” and Doctrine & Covenants 121:37

July 27, 2016

I was talking with a friend this weekend who also has dealt with contamination OCD. We had the familiar and still frustrating discussion about how people will sometimes try to empathize with us by saying that they also have OCD because they like to clean or are organized (or something to that effect). While the…

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Exposures

OCD as a traveling companion

July 26, 2016

I’ve traveled quite a bit in my day, what with having a dad who frequently traveled for work, going to grad school overseas, being a missionary, etc. But lately? I’m not a huge fan. Maybe it’s the fact that now I feel like a pack horse, preparing and hauling most of the things for 2 children…

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Kari Ferguson
CBT, Diagnosis

The importance of finding the right help

July 25, 2016

It’s easy for an outsider to say “Get help!” to someone struggling with OCD or any other mental illness, but the truth of the matter is that getting help can be extremely tricky. First of all, you are often emotionally vulnerable when the need to seek outside assistance arises. Things have usually gotten pretty bad by that point, or…

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I'm Kari Ferguson. In addition to fighting stereotypes and stigma surrounding mental illness, I'm an advocate of vinyl records, baking, vintage clothes, subcultures, and dance offs. Welcome and thanks for coming—feel free to stay awhile :)

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