04/15/2011 08:13 AM

The OCD Mind- My Personal Hell
Hi all. I’m 28 years old, happily married with 2 beautiful boys. My obsessions are many, but my most recurring, and most terrifying, is the one about my husband dying in a car accident. He has a very long commute, an hour there and anywhere from an hour and a half to two hours + [...]

01/09/2011 04:34 PM

OCD Wife’s Story
I have read some of your very harrowing stories about identifying OCD, treating and coping strategies. My Story is not of me, but my husband, I’ll try to explain myself best I can. When I met him 3 years ago, he told me he use to get very dry skin on his hands and that [...]

01/03/2011 10:11 AM

On Being Diagnosed
I wrote this piece a fair number of years ago. It’s just a sketch of what i went through on my first visit to a shrink to try to get help for “my problem”. This was about a year after I got sober. Life was not going well at the time. She sat there reading [...]

05/09/2010 06:32 AM

‘The OCD Project’
I am not a fan of reality type shows in general. But this looks interesting. Hopefully it’s not exploitative. ‘The OCD Project’: Obsessive-compulsive disorder gets the spotlight in new series (SUPERTRAILER) Exposure and Response Prevention is widely recognized as a best practice for the treatment of OCD. In this program, a group of OCD patients [...]

12/22/2009 07:28 AM

OCDgirl’s Story
Wow, it is amazing to read everyones different experiences. It gives me a sense that I am not alone. My story is a long one, but I will try to condense it. When I was sixteen years old I was raped by an older man at a party, while heavily intoxicated. What makes it worse [...]

04/01/2009 07:56 AM

John’s Story
My name is John and I have OCD, It’s taken me quite a while to admit to it. 35 years. Phew. I have had anxiety on and off throughout my life but OCD in in the latter part of my life. It’s triggered by stress so if I get really run down then out comes [...]

08/20/2008 02:42 PM

Lucy’s Story
Recently I was diagnosed with OCD after a solid year of battling extremely distracting and aggressive, violent, gory thoughts about the death of myself and my loved ones, in some cases I would think about myself hurting them. I loved to think about falling down the stairs, jumping off a bridge, falling or impaling objects, [...]

04/03/2008 05:51 PM

Henry’s Story
I am a lifer. 45 years of the disease. A ruined life (or should I say a severely compromised life). How good it could have been, if only. . . I function in society, run a business, but feel pain and anguish most of the time. I won’t even try to go through the evolution [...]

03/11/2008 08:56 AM

POSSESSED
Hoarding is one form of OCD that I have no symptoms of. For that I am grateful. This film looks into the lives of four hoarders. Very nicely done. About 20 minutes. POSSESSED on Vimeo ‘POSSESSED’ enters the complicated worlds of four hoarders; people whose lives are dominated by their relationship to possessions. While on [...]

02/01/2008 11:19 AM

OCD – What It Can Be like
I came across this short film this morning. I am not sure I like it, well I do, it’s the ending that bothers me some. The first part is an interview with a young man who has OCD and the second part is a fantasy about what it is like to live with it. It [...]

08/29/2007 11:27 AM

Morning Dew
"Earth's liquid jewelry, wrought of air". by Philip James Bailey

08/21/2007 10:54 AM

Concentration
“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.” by Friedrich Nietzsche

08/18/2007 09:26 AM

Soft and Hard
“There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast . Nothing exists in itself.” by Herman Melville

08/15/2007 08:58 AM

Flower With Morning Light
"Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished." Michael Strassfeld

08/13/2007 09:58 AM

Sunflower with Bee
“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” John Wooden

08/10/2007 01:15 PM

Bee Eyes
"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details". Heraclitus

08/07/2007 08:32 AM

Starting Over
With this post I am starting my photoblog/site over again in a fresh domain.