It’s easy to be all talk. I mean, don’t you think? It’s so much easier to just say what you should do rather than actually buckling down and doing it, right? So, you’ll be happy to know that I’m not all talk. I actually sat down last week with two pieces of paper and wrote some…
Do you ever read the General Conference talks in the Ensign after Conference and think, “I don’t remember this talk at all when I was listening back in October (or April)! How did I miss this one? I swear I watched all of Conference.” I feel like this happens more now that I have kids…
I feel like I’m beginning to sound like a broken record, bringing up over and over again the topic of “how we talk about mental illness” and why it matters. But let’s be honest: a record with a scratch isn’t actually broken, it just has a scratch that affects how it plays. If you go over…
Someone I respect in the OCD community commented with a question lately asking me why I decided to wean off my medication. That question struck me. Why? Why am I doing it? Why risk it? I still have obsessions and still engage in compulsions through surely I have made significant progress in regaining my life.…
In yesterday’s post, I was discussing a little bit about how compulsions often become habits and then habits become a part of life. Sometimes as time passes, the habits don’t seem so odd or terrible. They become almost comforting, and I find that I don’t really want or feel the need to give them up.