🧠 #107: Stressed or overwhelmed
As I step into a new job, among many other life changes, I’m trying to balance stress and overwhelm in healthy ways.
🧠 #106: Building people again
It has been so long since I have written a weekly update that I almost don’t know where to start. Ironically, my last update was titled “Back to work”, after which I immediately stopped working on writing these updates.
🧠 #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.
🧠 Winning the organ
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.