As we come upon Thanksgiving here in the United States, my husband thought I should a post about why I was grateful for my OCD. It seems almost wrong, though, to be grateful for something like a mental illness. Perhaps it comes down to the fact that while I’m not grateful for the OCD itself,…
Seeing as it is a holiday week, what with Thanksgiving coming up, as well as the start of the holiday season in general, I thought I’d write up a little bit about getting ready to talk to other people about your mental illness. Specifically, let’s look at talking to family or people you don’t see…
As I was looking through my photos just now, I realized that I never did a recap of my OCD Mormon book trip to Utah. So, I thought I would post a few highlights and bits about the trip before I forget it all!
Within the last month or two, I read two fictional books dealing with obsessive compulsive disorder. One, OCDaniel by Wesley King, is for a younger audience (ages 8-12) while the other is the new release from massively popular author of The Fault in Our Stars John Green, Turtles All the Way Down.
This October, President Uchtdorf spoke in General Conference on Saturday morning on the topic, “A Yearning for Home.” I appreciated that one of his first main points was that “the sublime message of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is that God is our Father, and that He cares about us, and that…