I received a really insightful comment on my “Sketch” about the Zoo Lights. The comment called me out, and rightly so, for protecting my OCD and choosing it over my relationship with my husband. This very thing happened to me so much before I started my cognitive behavioral therapy in earnest. I chose my OCD…
Sometimes I feel completely overwhelmed when I start writing an “Everyday Thursday” post and simply don’t know what to say or where to begin. Most times, actually, that is the case, and today is no exception. First of all, I want to say “thanks” for not abandoning the blog over the holiday break. Truth be told,…
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…
We recently got back from a “vacation.” I write vacation in quotation marks because my husband was still working, but we went somewhere and did sort of vacation-y things sometimes. At other times, I made the kids sit and read or play quietly on their hotel room beds or watch TV shows or something. Because being with…
I’m trying a new routine with my psychologist lately wherein I do an email check-in after two weeks and come back into the office after four. When I first started going to this psychologist, I was on the once a week program. As I started to improve, we drew out the in-between appointments time a little more…