Today I want to take you way back to 1975. I wasn’t yet born then, but some of my siblings were. Not that it matters exactly… I just want to examine a short statement from then Presiding Bishop Victor L. Brown given in a talk in October of that year entitled, “An Overview of Church Welfare…
Frankly, it’s been quite a week. I can’t really remember last Friday but I think…. nope, oh wait, I had a church meeting during the day and went out to ice cream (but ate dried fruit and nuts because health) and the park with my friend and all of our children after school got out.…
So yesterday the topic was avoidance, and I briefly mentioned and described “exposures.” I’ve probably briefly mentioned and described exposures many a time on the blog (and described the difference between lifestyle and purposeful exposures), but I thought I would delve in a little deeper today with some examples. Basically, exposures involve forcing yourself to be…
I was talking to a friend the other morning about a member of her family who has social anxiety. The reason I bring this up is that it got me thinking about the relationship between anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder. How does “not doing” something because of an anxiety/worry/fear compare to the “compulsions” of OCD? When you…
I wasn’t going to write about this topic today. I had another post scheduled but alas, we are interrupting the regularly scheduled programming for this special announcement: DO NOT TAKE THAT OCD TEST GOING AROUND FACEBOOK. Why? Because it is an eye test, not an OCD test. Do you want a real test for obsessive…