I have put together a list of things that have helped me most with my obsessive-compulsive disorder. Other things have been of help to me, i...

About two and a half months ago, I started my 50 th year with some plans. I thought I’d update you on how I’m doing. My therapy is contin...

Would I be a college professor? Would I live in Virginia? Would I be a published author by now? Yesterday, I wrote about how my father’s dr...

Me at age one. The path that took me from the first signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder and the accompanying depression when I was a c...

Mandala #1 I am not an artist. I have never been able to draw.    I have taken one art class in my lifetime, one called...

I’ve been sick since last week. Not seriously ill, just a cold with a bad cough, but it makes me feel miserable. What made it worse was that...

This is one of the most difficult posts I’ve written. I want to tell you a story that will provide a clue to why I or anyone else might suff...

  This week I’m building my posts around the five senses . Monday I used the sense of touch, Tuesday, the sense of taste and Wednesday the s...

 Claude Monet, "Weeping Willow." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Claude_Monet_Weeping_Willow.jpg  When my therapist and ...

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_041.jpg  What exactly does it mean to “stuff your feelings”? The image that...

I was 20 years old, walking across my college campus, in front of one of the main buildings. I don’t remember where I was going and or where...