Begin!
Here’s the best stuff to start with. If I were to explain myself and my OCD condition to others, and the condition of OCD to others, this is what I’d say:
1. What It Is like Living with the Pure-O Type of OCD
2. Pure-O OCD Explained in a Paragraph
3. Rewinding Time
4. This Is the Third Article About My T-Shirts Not Fitting
5. My OCD Is Not Quirky, I Am Ailing
6. A How-To Guide on Dealing with Those with OCD
Now everything, pure OCD:
A Complete Shift in Life and Blog Focus, OngoingMy OCD Does Not Define Me
5 Things I Wish Others Knew About My Social Anxiety
You Don’t Need to Be Motivated
This Is Where I Go on About Taking a Break
Don’t Self-Dismiss Your Mental Health Issues
Letting Things Be Wrong
OCD and Embracing Laziness
Moving Beyond OCD, Just Once
This Is Your Struggle
Don’t Compare Yourself to Others’ OCD
Challenging OCD Through Social Norms
OCD Goes in Waves
How to Avoid the Rabbit Hole of OCD Self-Anger
Just Saying No
I Would like to Change the Focus of This Blog
OCD Episode: Writing a Check
3 Reasons I Don’t Write down My Moods
Sometimes You Just Need to Make It Through the Week
With OCD, Everything Is Work
Here Are More Sayings I Obsess Over
On Obsessiveness
OCD and Tinnitus Maybe
My OCD Forces Me to Write for Quantity Not Quality
OCD and Depression
OCD Episode: Don’t Touch My Stuff
OCD and Tattoos
Writing to Myself
OCD Rituals Sometimes Just Feel Good and Nothing Else
How My OCD Rates Things on a Scale of 1 to 10
OCD Episode: The Last Item on the Grocery Store Shelf
How I Combat the Buyer’s Remorse of OCD
Forced Relaxation and Temporary Removal from OCD and Anxiety
How My OCD Makes It Impossible to Say What I Feel
I Am Obsessed with How Deep My Vocabulary Is
OCD Episode: Gabapentin and Steroids
How My OCD Makes All of the Past Depressing
OCD Thoughts Amid a Hurricane
Epic OCD Episode: I Knew My Shirt Would Turn Pink!
Every Word Matters
3 Ways I Embrace the Placebo Effect with My OCD
I Can’t Get out of Bed. For No Reason.
My Chair Broke: How My OCD Reacts in 7 Parts
I’m Not Wrong, This Isn’t All OCD
OCD Episode: Milk
I Have OCD. Am I Crazy?
Trying to Take a Break with OCD
I Only Do What I’m Supposed to Do
When My OCD Is a Waste of My Time, Life
So I Wrote My Own Accounting System
Variety and Novelty with OCD
OCD Flare-Ups (And a Politician from PA)
How I Deal with Appointments
OCD (Obsession) and the Amplification of Mistrust
OCD Episode: You Dropped Something, Mister!
Random (Resonant) Anxiety and OCD
Even with OCD, I Have All the Trust in the World In…
The Art of Ignoring for Mental Wellbeing
The Circular Logic of Karma and OCD
Why Risk It?
OCD Episode: Brushing One’s Hand Along Fabric
Small Degrees of OCD (I’m so OCD!)
My OCD Explained by My Obsession with the Numbers 111 and 110
I Quite Literally Fear I Will Use up All of My Containers
Mood (OCD Maybe, Mostly Mood)
An OCD Adventure with Antibiotics
My Calendar Is a Window into My OCD Thinking
All of the Things I Thought About on Vacation
OCD Doesn’t Care If I Am Sick
My OCD Has Something to Say About String Cheese
OCD vs. Phobia and Fear
OCD Episode: Anhedonia
Ways in Which I Avoid Change, Which My OCD Demands
OCD and Anxiety Medication Dosage Reduction
My Brain Is Not Making Any Sense to Itself
I Have a Right to Be Happy
I Don’t Feel Safe Being Optimistic
OCD Episode: Why Is Everything Right and Happy?
OCD and Leftovers
The Many Flavors of Down Moods
I Dream of Living in a Mess
OCD and the Dreaded $100 Bill
What I Don’t like About Writing a Blog
OCD Episode: Music I Did Not Ask to Listen To
Why Buying Online Is Torture with OCD
What It Is like Living with the Pure-O Type of OCD
Why I Get Offended Easily
Pure-O OCD Explained in a Paragraph
OCD Medications Work (But You’ll Have to Try a Handful)
Principles of My Life (Final Draft?)
A Holiday Break from the Action
What If I Am the One Who Created My OCD?
OCD Episode: Who Am I Writing For?
My OCD in My Childhood
Going About Reassessing My OCD
Reassessing My OCD and My OCD Blog
Anger
OCD Episode: Mania and Then Absolutely Not Mania
My Obsessive and Compulsive Caffeine Quandary
The Wonderfully Unrealistic Construct of the Dreams of Accident OCD