It has been a week of extreme high’s and low’s, both OCD related and with life in general. The dreaded Monday evening Frankly, I was doing fairly well until Monday afternoon. For some reason, Monday afternoons and evenings tend to be difficult for me, especially when it comes to patience with my children. I was…
I’m the first one to admit that OCD can take over your life. It’s not the ideal scenario, but unfortunately it seems to be the result of living with OCD and allowing it to go unchecked without either receiving care or taking action against the OCD.
I have tracked my interest in politics to my figuring out that I had a mental illness, getting help, and becoming somewhat of a mental health advocate. You see, I’m lucky. My husband has a good job and had great insurance, which provided me with the ability to basically pick whatever psychologist I wanted (according to…
Frankly, friends, it’s been a brutal week. I’ve felt like I’m living at the bottom of (my) barrel in many ways, exhausted and running on low or empty in most areas of my life. Do you ever feel like that? Like you are “done” and just need to press reset? We can do that with technology…
Sometimes having OCD is incredibly lonely. We often feel that we have to hide our OCD. This is a choice that we make, and I don’t think that it necessarily makes us weak or afraid. Sometimes it just comes down the fact that we don’t want to be annoying or bring undue attention to ourselves. We…