It’s OCD Awareness Week. I wondered what I could say in this post that would be new or unique yet still meaningful. I didn’t want to rehash old trains of thought or repeat myself yet again, so I started to think about what OCD Awareness meant to me. What should it mean? Obviously, those of us who…
This last weekend was General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Basically, Church leaders spoke on many different topics for many hours, and we got to sit at home and watch it from our televisions (our computers or whatnot). I was really hoping for a good mental health talk, especially considering…
How was your week? Fall is here, and with it the added stress of having summer vacation over and “real” life begin again: school, schedules, meetings, to do lists, etc. But all of this busy-ness is good for me, as I’ve mentioned before. Keeping busy is great for keeping obsessive compulsive disorder in check. As…
While having obsessive compulsive disorder can be a real drag and not be fun at all, sometimes it is helpful to find the humor in it. At times, this can be hard. So help me here as I make this list—I’d love to hear your ideas in the comments (especially since mine will be mostly contamination…
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.