Just in case you hadn’t heard, my book is available for preorder! It comes out September 12, but you can order it now and they will ship it to you when it’s available. Which is great because then you don’t even have to leave your house to buy or get the book. Plus, it’s not…
Diagnosis vs. Internalization
Recently I was getting some medical paperwork together in preparation to go to see a new gynecologist (I have endometriosis in addition to obsessive compulsive disorder). One paper from the office of the doctor who performed my laparoscopic surgery for endometriosis listed various diagnoses for me. There, listed among their diagnoses were not only endometriosis but fatigue,…
Meditation and Mental Illness
The other day I promised a link to an article I wrote about why I don’t like to meditate. I wrote it awhile back after an old friend got a job at Headspace, a company that I believe makes a meditation app. She asked if I wanted to write something for them, and I came…
Alternatives to Therapy
A friend posted on Facebook recently about how hard it can be to find affordable therapy or psychological care. In addition to the often prohibitive cost of seeing a psychologist, sometimes it is simply hard or impossible to find a local psychologist who specializes in OCD (or whatever mental illness you have). We have some…
Scripture Snapshot: President Uchtdorf and “Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear”
In our Mormons with OCD chat community, one member recommended that I check out one of President Uchtdorf’s talks from this most recent conference about fear. I remember listening to this talk, but I’m grateful for the push to read it again, this time looking at it from the perspective of how OCD works and functions.…