This post is about Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. It might be the most helpful book I’ve ever read, for helping me manage my mental illness. I believe there’s overlap between different mental health diagnoses and so what helps a person with one diagnosis might help people with other diagnoses too. That’s why …
(There are implicit book recommendations in here, hence I’m including this in the ‘reviews’ category) I didn’t want Freud to be right about anything. I didn’t want him to be right because I don’t like reading his ideas about human beings. I find some of them distasteful and gross. I may be wrong and unfairly …
I used to be addicted to certainty. I didn’t know I was addicted to it. I might have realized that just a fews day ago. I wrote yesterday about the power of AA for overcoming addictions. There are other ways to overcome them also. Sometimes the consequences of our addictive behavior are so devastating that …