I am so pleased to announce that this September, my first book will be published! It will be part memoir, part guide for those suffering with OCD and anxiety, all something wonderful! More details to come, and thank you all for you support. Let’s make this huge!
Sometimes having OCD is incredibly lonely. We often feel that we have to hide our OCD. This is a choice that we make, and I don’t think that it necessarily makes us weak or afraid. Sometimes it just comes down the fact that we don’t want to be annoying or bring undue attention to ourselves. We…
Someone I respect in the OCD community commented with a question lately asking me why I decided to wean off my medication. That question struck me. Why? Why am I doing it? Why risk it? I still have obsessions and still engage in compulsions through surely I have made significant progress in regaining my life.…
So I’ve been weaning off my medication for about a month now, and I’m now taking about a fourth of what was my “normal” dose of fluoxetine. While I’d say I’ve been doing fairly well, I have been noticing things more—things that I used to worry about or have anxiety over that I “mellowed” out…
As much as I hope that this website helps others with OCD (and especially those who have OCD and are also LDS) if I’m being honest, it’s actually helping me. Not that it can’t help all of us—because that is obviously that ideal symbiotic relationship—but it really is helping me, even if you get nothing out…