Sometimes still I examine my hands and wrists and imagine I see a discoloration, almost like a tight glove pulled up over the area that is s...

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree . Ralph Waldo Emerson I have a love-ha...

“Mindfulness has to do above all with attention and awareness, which are universal human qualities. But in our society, we tend to take thes...

Remembering to be mindful, or aware, is not easy. It’s one thing to read about something. It’s another thing to actually do it, or even to r...

One of the manifestations of my OCD that has endured since I was a child is fear about bathrooms. At my worst, when I was a young woman, I s...

I had my first session with the psychologist today who will be leading me in cognitive behavioral therapy. I won’t be doing exposure respons...

I will start exposure therapy for my OCD on Thursday. I wrote a post when I decided to make the plunge, but I didn’t think I would start so...