Anxiety Anxiety: The Moving Target 24 Jun 202123 Jun 2021 TW: suicide The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-V) does a brilliant job, as it should, of casting a wide net with its diagnostic criteria. As…
Anxiety Doctored If You Do, Doctored If You Don’t: Where Phobia Meets Anxiety 22 Jun 202121 Jun 2021 TW: Medical (including needles) Imagine waking up on a deserted isle completely alone. For the average person it would be a terrifying experience, but for you the real terror of…
Anxiety… My Mental Health Diagnoses 16 Jun 202115 Jun 2021 Today is a more clinical post. While this blog explores the nature of living with mental health issues on a personal, anecdotal level, I thought I would take one post…
Anxiety Little Voice: An Introvert’s Guide to “Hearing” Thoughts 25 Jun 202010 Jun 2021 Social media was abuzz for some time about thinking tendencies. Some people, like yours truly, "hear" themselves when thinking. There's a "voice" "saying" the words and I "hear" it the…
Anxiety 500 Films to See for Your Isolated Pleasure 20 Mar 202010 Jun 2021 Keeping this one fun and simple. As many are facing lockdowns, quarantines, or simply abiding by requests for social distancing, here is a list of 500 films worth seeing to…
Anxiety Anxiety or COVID? Advice from Someone with Medical Anxiety 20 Mar 202010 Jun 2021 One cannot downplay the seriousness of the situation. We have a novel virus spreading like wildfire among our communities right now in addition to all of the normal and other…
Anxiety… A Return to Social Anxiety and OCPD 29 Feb 202010 Jun 2021 This should not be an easy piece to write, and it's possible that as I get further into composing it I will feel my usual sense of conflict. One of…
Anxiety… OCPD Plus Social Anxiety Disorder and Introversion Equals…? 18 Apr 201910 Jun 2021 Today we are going to look at three areas that I have covered previously, but specifically where they intersect. That intersection is the melancholy corner of "I have a ton…
Anxiety Anxiety, Medical Anxiety, and Depression 14 Jan 201910 Jun 2021 I want to share a brief, personal story today inspired by some peers on Twitter who courageously shared similar stories of their own. I want to keep this concise, so…
Anxiety… You Have Mental Health 11 Jun 201810 Jun 2021 I have covered this in prior entries, but to recap quickly I have lived with obsessive compulsive personality disorder and generalised anxiety disorder my entire life. I have had bouts…
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