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Preventing Family Involvement: Reassurance Seeking

February 15, 2017

Reassurance is a bugger. For the OCD sufferer, reassurance seeking can be so subtle and not even feel like something “bad” or negative to do at all. Maybe you research online if something is going to make you sick or how to clean something “properly.” Maybe you look up how long a certain sickness is…

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Kari Ferguson
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Preventing Family Involvement: Compulsions

February 13, 2017

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, today and Wednesday we will look into the family aspect of OCD, specifically focusing on how (and if) it’s possible to prevent involving our family members and loved ones in our OCD. So many times, having a mental illness affects every single person in the household. Talking about…

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Everyday Thursday, Relationships

Everyday Thursday

October 13, 2016

Having kids is really hard. I’ve written about how OCD can affect your relationship with your children, and I’m definitely willing to admit that my relationship with my kids isn’t always great. The OCD definitely made it worse, but I think our own personalities and the way we grew up also affects our parenting style,…

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Relationships, Stigma

MIAW: How open should we be?

October 4, 2016

Being open about a mental illness is definitely one of those “spectrum cases.” By this, I mean it’s not an either/or scenario. You aren’t either open or shut off about your mental illness. There are degrees.

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My Story, Relationships

Independence vs. codependence

August 26, 2016

I have prided myself on being an independent person. I am the type who can stay at home, alone, for days on end happily. I find things to do. I read books. I make my own food. I listen to music. Whatever. I don’t need to have a ton of people around to feel secure 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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