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“Discharged.”
Over the next few months, I continued to work through my exposure hierarchy. With hard work and determination, I completed exposures with an anxiety rating of 6/7, on a scale of 0-7. These exposures included “contaminating” the house after touching non-organic fruit, consuming a food item containing Red Dye 40, resisting the urge to seek…
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“Back… again”
Historically, I would have started this narrative with something like “Sorry I’ve been absent” or “My apologies, I had to take some time away”. The reality is that my OCD got in the way of something I love to do… again. I set out to share my struggles and successes with OCD, Anorexia Nervosa, Bipolar…
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“Is that a Light, at the End of the Tunnel?”
After all these years, I finally found it… The Holy Grail! To my extreme surprise, the Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) therapy was working. The exposure of looking at a crooked lampshade in my house and not fixing it, clocked in at an anxiety rating of 4, averaging a 5-7 min trial time. By the week’s…
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“Avoidance.”
Happy New Year! I hope all of you enjoyed time spent with family and friends over the holidays. I know I did 🙂 My 2023 New Year’s Resolution… well, I don’t have one. In my experience, New Year’s resolutions are a set-up for failure. Historically, I have established extremely difficult, practically unattainable, goals, typically around…
Smashing Stigmas 