The Home for Writers with Neurological Conditions
I wonder how many of you will relate to this. Please do get in touch if you do, because this company is all about making people feel less alone, and I have to admit this is something I still feel pretty alone with. When I go to sleep, the obsessions follow me. This seems to […]
Click HERE to read Schall Adams’ interview with Vrinda Pendred – the first stop on a virtual blog tour promoting the upcoming release of Check Mates: A Collection of Fiction, Poetry and Artwork about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, by People with OCD. And be sure to sign up for a reminder to buy the book on its […]
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Anyone in the UK (or with America with the BBC America channel) happen to see the recent new episode of Louis Theroux’s weird weekends, entitled ‘America’s Medicated Kids’? For those who missed it, he visited hospitals, special schools and families to find out about the extreme increase in children on medications. I know it will […]
In yesterday’s edition of the Evening Standard, there was an article on p. 26 about the latest Budget cuts affecting the British National Health Service. It seems that among many other substantial cuts, the government has put pressure on the NHS to seek £5 billion savings in the mental health area. As the Standard points […]
I was diagnosed with OCD very casually, as if it was just assumed I had OCD and I already knew about it. So I can’t pinpoint the year. I just remember a psychologist talking about treatments for my OCD when I was about 16. I have the more Compulsive side of OCD – probably due […]
In the end all you will have is yourself; you will be alone. That is to say, the three pounds of meat encased in your skull, the repository of everything that makes you YOU, is all you will have. In a way, isn’t our whole life just a view of the world from inside a […]
‘Why me?’ If you have OCD, perhaps you sometimes think that. I can’t answer the metaphysical side to that question, but I can tell you it seems more than likely it’s genetic. Maybe your parents don’t have OCD, but they might have some other related condition. Or perhaps it shows up in other branches of […]
I want to take a moment to talk about the nature of fear – so please take a moment to remember that film series ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’…because this is one of my personal favourite motivating metaphors in life, as odd as that may sound. So Freddy Krueger is a terrible monster with blades […]
So you’ve managed to overcome some of the small stuff – now what about the really painful obsessions? What about the thoughts going round and round in your head? The truth is, in my experience it is far easier to tackle more physical obsessions – checking, washing, etc. – than the overbearing thoughts. For instance, […]