I have two children. They are both fairly young, which makes my perspective on OCD parent-child relationships perhaps a bit narrow. However, the fact remains that I am a person with OCD trying to deal with and raise children who hopefully won’t have similar issues to my own.
We recently got back from a “vacation.” I write vacation in quotation marks because my husband was still working, but we went somewhere and did sort of vacation-y things sometimes. At other times, I made the kids sit and read or play quietly on their hotel room beds or watch TV shows or something. Because being with…
I was talking with a friend this weekend who also has dealt with contamination OCD. We had the familiar and still frustrating discussion about how people will sometimes try to empathize with us by saying that they also have OCD because they like to clean or are organized (or something to that effect). While the…
I’ve traveled quite a bit in my day, what with having a dad who frequently traveled for work, going to grad school overseas, being a missionary, etc. But lately? I’m not a huge fan. Maybe it’s the fact that now I feel like a pack horse, preparing and hauling most of the things for 2 children…
It’s easy for an outsider to say “Get help!” to someone struggling with OCD or any other mental illness, but the truth of the matter is that getting help can be extremely tricky. First of all, you are often emotionally vulnerable when the need to seek outside assistance arises. Things have usually gotten pretty bad by that point, or…