June 2012
3 posts
Neuropsychiatrist again/unexpected breakdown
A few days ago I saw the neuropsychiatrist again. I had originally planned to think carefully about what to say to him during this short meeting in order to convey the effect that clomipramine has been having on me. I put this planning off, though, for reasons I don’t quite understand. I thus went to my appointment unprepared and in the middle of a hectic day. Something funny happened to me. I...
Letting people I know know about my OCD
OCD takes up quite a lot of my time and quite a lot of my thoughts (not only thinking about obsessions but reflecting on the nature of the disorder and the fact of having it). However, in the day to day, people who see me outside of my home environment probably wouldn’t recognize that anything was wrong. Some days that’s because not much is wrong. However, even when it very much is, I don’t think...
Off day
I didn’t sleep well last night. I was waking up at least every hour and struggling to fall asleep again. In the morning I got up without difficulty but then after doing the shopping with my mum I came home and fell asleep on the sofa. I had to get up to be interviewed by someone conducting social research but now I feel as though I could easily fall asleep again. I also feel a wee bit...