May 2012
5 posts
I have a black dog
Literally. His name is Rafa and he’s a 15 month old border collie. Except he doesn’t look much like a collie since he’s mostly black. Rafa likes balls. He really likes them. If a ball is flying, Rafa is close behind. I love Rafa but he can also drive me nuts and make me miserable. He’s not terrifically cooperative. He has his own agenda, and I suspect it usually has to do with balls. I tell Rafa...
The idea of managing an illness
This isn’t necessarily an approach I pursue and I sometimes even flagrantly disregard it, but I do find it very interesting. A chronic illness, physical or mental, is commonly thought of as something that requires management. It can’t be cured, so you have to deal with it permanently, and you want to optimise the way you deal with it in order to optimise your quality of life. This is the basic...
Clomipramine continued
From 25mg I have made it up to 100mg. The side effects have generally subsided, except for the dry mouth which is really annoying. I drink a lot of water these days. Today I feel sick again and my heart is beating too fast, but most likely that is because I drank far far far too much coffee. I’m not sure whether I have experienced any improvements as far as OCD is concerned, although I suppose...
Clomipramine
I have started taking clomipramine as per the recommendation of the neuropsychiatrist. This is a tricyclic antidepressant that has been around since the sixties and has been extensively tested for treating OCD. My GP wrote the prescription and I’m pleased that this time, unlike with the last antidepressant I was prescribed, I am to see the GP at frequent intervals at first, to see how...
Bleeding hands
As the title might suggest, my hands are bleeding. I think this is because I have been washing them too much over the past week. This crept up on me without my realising. I’m not at the stage of washing them multiple times in one go or of washing them again as soon as I turn the tap off because I have touched the contaminated tap etc. but I think I have been washing them when it wasn’t necessary....
