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🧠 #105: Back to work

In this update, I share some good news about turning the page and starting a new chapter, and the therapy session that helped me do it.

🧠 #104: Distress tolerance homework

This week’s update shares about my therapist and me being symptomatic together, giving my wife a gift of flexibility, and a realization about feeling like I’m always being tested.

🧠 Always being tested

I had a realization last week that made me laugh.

🧠 Gift of flexibility

Last week was my wedding anniversary. I wasn’t as prepared for it as I wanted to be, but I still wanted to do something to make it a special occasion.

🧠 Symptomatic together

My therapy session last week was an interesting one. Both my therapist and I share an OCD diagnosis, and both of us have been struggling lately.

🧠 #103: Pipes and puzzles

After another challenging week, I share a positive spike, taking my kids and winning the organ, and the return of sudoku.

🧠 Return of sudoku

One of the activities that has helped me make it through the past couple weeks has been the excellent sudoku app, Good Sudoku.

As a father, one of the hardest things for me is seeing my children suffer, particularly when it’s with distress that feels all too common. OCD, and mental illness in general, has a strong genetic component, so I am not surprised when I see some of my traits showing up in my kids.

🧠 A positive spike

I shared a couple weeks ago that I had gone completely off of Prozac, which I’ve found the most helpful so far in helping to manage my OCD symptoms. That was in update #101: Tapering off everything.