Finally had the first of my two sessions of CBT consult yesterday. Not sure if it will help me or what the outcome of the consult will be, but the clinical psych seems to be a respectful person, knowledgeable and empathetic about OCD, and I didn't have a hard time talking to her ( Read more... )

Have seriously cannot cope anxiety brain this evening thanks to coming down from serious work stress and the fact that the moths are back in the flat gdi ( Read more... )

I would appreciate a few days rest from the ongoing run of Lord of the Brainweasels, please. The increase in noise of the usual background hum of low-level anxiety is having a serious impact on my ability to make it through the day without Now Panic And Freak Out.

Thanks,
me

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Self-loathing at the moment, as I got the time of a job interview tomorrow confused with a doctor's appointment today, and therefore showed up half an hour late to the doctor's appointment ( Read more... )

I've been wicked low on spoons lately and so I really don't know how to write about the death of Samantha Hancox. (warning: problematic language, OCD triggers. I'm linking to this general informational article on OCD that contains the story of Ms Hancox because I can't find one at any other UK paper I like using ( Read more... )

It seems reality insists on proving to my OCD complexes that the Packers will win if I am not watching them. DAMN YOU REALITY ( Read more... )

I tend to get immersed in webcomics. It's an OCD+ thing (partially the ADD that I don't apparently have and partially my fail at memory)--I have to read the whole thing from beginning to present, so I'm not utterly lost.

So. When I spotted this post by
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Welp, it's the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, per the UN.* So, out of the closet with me, because there's really not any better day for it.

Hi, I'm Rhi and I have a disability.It's sort of sickening that it took me this long to actually sit down and say it aloud in an explicit sentence instead of just talking about my OCD + ( Read more... )

I remembered today (O HAI BAD SHORT TERM MEMORY THAT IS NOT ADD) that I had meant to write some stuff about neurodiversity in that post I made yesterday. Oops.

But then something else came up:
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So I said two weeks ago after I got back from going to the UK shrink that I would write about it, and I meant to in this post, but I started ranting about the Rally For Sanity and why it pisses me off, instead. The first bit is about that, the second bit is about the UK psychiatric system.

I am leaving this post unlocked for people's reference.

( Rally Round the Ableism Flag )