I mentioned in yesterday’s post about how weaning off the medication has brought certain worries or obsessions/compulsions back into my awareness that I hadn’t been thinking about as much. This is not unexpected, and it shouldn’t be unexpected for anyone weaning off of medication. OCD doesn’t like to give up easily. It likes to shape shift…
It’s been almost a year since my severe OCD meltdown. I’ve been going to a psychologist for about 11 months now. And I just want you all to know that it’s not really easy but it’s not impossible either. It’s kind of like how I often tell people that the living the gospel isn’t easy, but it…
A lot of times there is a (spoken and unspoken) stigma that those who fight mental health problems are somehow weak or not as capable as those who are mental illness-free. It’s almost as if those who perpetuate this stigma think anyone foolish enough to succumb to a mental illness must not be smart enough, resilient enough, or…
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…
There has been some curiosity surrounding the relationship between having responsibilities and the severity of OCD. Specifically, does having certain church callings (like Primary or YW President, let’s say) make the OCD worse? Or, more generally, does having a lot of things to do make OCD more or less bearable? I want to thank my psychologist for…