Navigating Adulthood – One Obsessive Thought at a Time
This post was originally written in 2019, and was last updated in 2022. For the last couple of years, I've shared this post every World Mental Health Day. I'm proud to say it's one of my most successful posts, so I've been revamping it every year. The events of 2020 and 2021 have certainly meant… Continue reading An Open Letter to My OCD
If you’ve been following my blog over the last few months, you’ll know that my anxiety played a pretty big part when it came to planning my wedding. While I was yet to be diagnosed for another year, looking back, it’s become apparent that the severe wedding anxiety I was experiencing was actually morphing into… Continue reading Planning a Wedding When You Have OCD: An Honest Account
So, if you read my last post, you’ll know all about my recent trip to Disneyland. It was quite a long post, so I decided to write about the anxiety side of things separately. Regular readers of my blog will know that my anxiety doesn’t always behave itself when I go on trips, and I… Continue reading Disneyland | My Anxious Travels
In June 2016, I reluctantly made the decision to start taking medication for my OCD. Of course this is something that I’ve openly discussed throughout my mental health related posts, but I haven’t actually talked about the reasons why I left it for so long. So, for today’s post, I wanted to talk a little… Continue reading Why Medication Was the Best Decision I Ever Made
Why hello! I have returned from my holiday to Madeira, and I have loads to catch up on! While I’m intending to write a post specifically about what we got up to on our trip, I wanted to write a little about the flight itself. Originally, I had intended to have this included in the… Continue reading A Fear-Filled Flight to Madeira | My Anxious Travels
March 2019 is my discharge-iversary. Is that a thing? Probably not. But two years ago, on the 17th March 2017, I had my final CBT session to date. To most, it probably wouldn’t be considered a big deal, and to some of you reading, it probably wouldn’t be either. But at the time, I had… Continue reading 2 Years
The 18th to 24th February 2019 is OCD Week of Action. It's all about committing to do just one simple thing that will help make a difference to those suffering with OCD. As I mentioned in a previous post, there's a lot of stigma surrounding mental health issues, and OCD is no exception. While more… Continue reading OCD Week of Action 2019
Thursday 7th February 2019 is Time to Talk Day. If you don’t know what that is, let me inform you. Time to Talk Day was started by Time to Change, the mental health campaign. Their aim is a simple one: to get more people talking about mental health. One in four of us are affected… Continue reading Let’s Talk About Mental Health
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