How ERP therapy is helping me confront the uncomfortable “Place your hand on the doorknob.” “Okay, now the soap dispenser.” I do as she says.…
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Category: Overthinking Everything
What Re-Entry Anxiety is Like for Someone with OCD
As someone with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), my re-entry anxiety not only concerns how to immerse myself back into the world. It also includes questioning how re-entry will impact my OCD.
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Overthinking Everything: Why Watercolor Painting is How I’m Quieting My Mind Right Now
Easing my mind from overthinking isn’t about silencing my thoughts. It’s about focusing my attention and accepting the duality of emotion.
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Overthinking Everything: What Should Your Relationship with Your OBGYN Really Be Like?
My first gynecologist was no other than the man who delivered me from my mother’s womb.
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Overthinking Everything: Is It Time to Start Dating Again?
2020 was not a year for love. At least not in my perpetually single opinion.
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Overthinking Everything: I Was Already a Germaphobe – Then COVID Happened
Coronavirus Took My Anxiety to New Extremes. But Getting Help Wasn’t Easy.
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Overthinking Everything: How I Realized I Had OCD
At first, it was upsetting to realize that my eccentric behavior, which at that point had become my normal, was indeed not normal at all and instead, part of a mental disorder.
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