Movie: Living With Me And My OCD

I'll be looking forward to watching this when it comes out.

http://livingwithmeandmyocd.wordpress.com/

Distinguishing OCD From Other Mental Illnesses

http://joanlandinosays.com/distinguishing-ocd-from-other-mental-illnesses/
 

"Many psychiatric terms are used inappropriately in common speech, and describing focused or meticulous people as “obsessive” or “OCD” is another misuse of a technical diagnosis. While you may like teasing your sister about organizing her closet by color, this behavior does not make her OCD."

I wish OCD were simply a desire to keep things organized.

Reassurance is Cocaine for Anxiety

Reassurance Seeking in OCD and Anxiety

Good article from the OCD Center of Los Angeles (by the way, my browser is giving me OCD over it's inability to understand that Los Angeles is indeed spelled correctly as is).

This has certainly been my experience with reassurance.  It is a quick fix for my anxiety but only briefly and then I need another reassurance fix.  Before long no amount of reassurance works.

As humans it is natural for us to want to reassure one another when in distress.  As hard as it is for me to not reassure myself when stress, harder still is it to explain to someone else why they shouldn't reassure me either. 

The Mentally Ill Are Twice as Likely to be the Victims of a Violent Crime

Thank you, Cracked.