Blog Mental Illness Combos for the Win 24 Mar 2022 OCD often brings depression, at a reported rate of 25% to 50%. My mental illness buddies, OCD and Bipolar depression, have been kinda off and on pals since I was…
Blog… Quote of the Moment 22 Mar 2022 I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.Elizabeth Gilbert I feel this is an…
Blog Radio Silence, An OCD Conundrum 12 Mar 202212 Mar 2022 So, I might have gone radio silent on communications with my Pastor. I've pulled away almost completely with all social events with my church, unless I can take my husband…
Blog Easter, Not All Bunnies and Egg Hunts 10 Mar 2022 Last Easter was rather hellish for my OCD and in turn, bipolar depression. I know Easter is the Christian holiday I should love the most, and I feel so ashamed…
Blog To Facebook or Not to Facebook? 9 Mar 2022 I have been “fasting” from Facebook for lent since last Wednesday. Lent is the 40 days leading up to Easter in which Christians reflect on the sacrifices Jesus made. Why…
Blog Emotional PTSD, Estimated Recovery Time? 27 Feb 2022 Many months back I ended up yelling at my husband that he in fact broke me and that’s why I am so messed up. Harsh words, to put that on…
Blog Mental Illness Stigma via Doctors 26 Feb 2022 I read a comment earlier in a mental health group that the person gets treated differently when their doctors find out they have mental illness. I used to think that…
Blog Invisible Friend. OCD – Can We Be Friends? 21 Feb 202224 Feb 2022 Those who know me know music is one of my obsessions/compulsions (compulsion if I’m honest). Drives them crazy, as I will pick a song and it goes on repeat until…
Blog Quote of the Moment 19 Feb 202219 Feb 2022 Instead of saying "I’m damaged, I’m broken, I have trust issues," say "I’m healing. I’m rediscovering myself, I’m starting over."Horacio Jones This unpublished quote of the moment was staring at…
Blog Right and Wrong, Not Ambiguous. OCD Flare. 19 Feb 20224 Apr 2022 I recently read an article where the author proclaims right and wrong are ambiguous and basically it boils down to viewpoint. I am horribly truncating his long article into one…
Blog Is The ‘Get Mine’ Mindset The Norm? 8 Feb 20224 Apr 2022 Take time to think of others. There’s a distinct lack of that in general in today’s society as a whole. Case in point is a woman complaining about her husband…
Blog Daddy Issues and Television Trauma 19 Jan 202229 Jan 2022 We were watching a TV show a couple weeks ago and the dialogue was about how a father’s job is to just do the loving. Just the discussion about a…
Blog More Avoidance – OCD Triggered 20 Nov 20214 Apr 2022 I've done something that I just can't reconcile in my mind, and as far as my OCD is concerned, my mind tells me the only thing that can possibly make…
Blog… More Scrupulosity OCD Struggles, Alone 19 Oct 202119 Oct 2021 I think I'll never share my struggle with OCD with anyone but strangers online. I just don't know how to make a friend properly, or communicate like an adult in…
Blog How to Let OCD Ruin/Run Your Life. 16 Oct 20214 Apr 2022 I don't actually want my OCD to be running the show and ruining the party (don't you know, it's popcorn every night?). But I know exactly the recipe to let…
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