Why is seeking reassurance so frowned upon during the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder? Why shouldn’t we be allowed to get confirmation from someone we trust that something terrible isn’t going to happen? Or that we don’t have any pee on the back of our pants? Or that the garage door is closed or the oven is off?…
Hello everyone. I feel like the last few days have been go-go-go, which is nice because they pass by quickly but also hard because they pass by quickly. I’ve been feeling like there is more that I should be fitting into each day, even though I’m basically moving from one thing to another all day long. I’m not…
Hopefully by now it is obvious that having obsessive compulsive disorder makes being an active Mormon a little bit more difficult. Not that it is more difficult to keep the commandments or anything like that, but more that it makes it difficult, for me at least, to feel like I am doing enough, being enough,…
Eating out isn’t the easiest thing when one has obsessive compulsive disorder. It’s usually not even the cleanliness or “what germs are on this table?” factor for me, shockingly. It is the actual ordering and what food I am going to eat. Currently, I like to be prepared. I often check out the menu and offerings…
What do you think of when you hear the phrase “chronic health condition”? I used to think that it implied something serious, a health problem that surely pointed towards eventual death and/or a significantly lower standard of living. After the last two or so years, though, I’m realizing that, in my own way, I am…