Well, on Wednesday morning I took my last fluoxetine pill. I’m not too worried yet since I know that the half life of fluoxetine is pretty long, so it’s not like I’m totally “on my own” without medication. It’ll be hanging around my system residually for a bit longer. But still, not taking that pill everyday?…
Awhile ago I wrote about pure O OCD. This is one form of OCD that fascinates me a little more than the others simply because it seems a little odd. Pure O- OCD? So just obsessions? Then how is it still classified as OCD? Wouldn’t it just be “OD”?
A few weeks back, my husband complained that he was getting a cold. But you know husbands and colds, right? It’s like the end of world is fast approaching when a husband catches a cold. I gave a small amount of sympathy and pushed him and the kids out the door (it was Saturday, which…
Let’s talk for a few minutes about gender and mental illness. I don’t want to get into statistics regarding how many men versus women have various mental illnesses. But I do want to briefly discuss how men and women handle having a mental illness.
Do you ever feel compelled to do something but just don’t have the time to do it? Like a good compelled, not OCD compulsion compelled. Although with so much focus on OCD, sometimes it can be hard to make a distinction. Can there be good compulsions? Discuss amongst yourselves, I don’t have time for that…