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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>Personal experience of how a world can fall apart due to mental illness.</description><title>It's Psychosomatic</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @itspsychosomatic)</generator><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Three posts in one night? This one's about G-O-D</title><description>Ok so. (I want to start saying everything this way.)
I don&amp;#8217;t know quite who really knows this,...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/38271015478</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/38271015478</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 01:53:00 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>A post from a few months ago I was too afraid to publish: Quitting</title><description>Today I think I have made the agonising decision to give up trying to write my MSc dissertation and...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/38264075439</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/38264075439</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:27:46 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>Whatup blog. It's been a while.</title><description>Ok so.
Psychs and stuff are past.
I almost feel like a functioning human being.
I actually go out...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/38263855355</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/38263855355</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:25:01 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>A post I wrote before the last one but didn't feel ready to publish</title><description>I have been ill for the past few days with a nasty stomach bug or something of that kind. Thankfully...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/26358327215</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/26358327215</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:11:47 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>I don't have OCD</title><description>I have finally decided that. I had it when I was little. I don&amp;#8217;t have it any more. I dropped...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/26357066219</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/26357066219</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:51:38 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>Neuropsychiatrist again/unexpected breakdown</title><description>A few days ago I saw the neuropsychiatrist again. I had originally planned to think carefully about...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/25527235401</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/25527235401</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:06:37 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>Letting people I know know about my OCD</title><description>OCD takes up quite a lot of my time and quite a lot of my thoughts (not only thinking about...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/24676487082</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/24676487082</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:18:22 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>Off day</title><description>I didn&amp;#8217;t sleep well last night. I was waking up at least every hour and struggling to fall...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/24198619286</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/24198619286</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:00:08 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>I have a black dog</title><description>Literally. His name is Rafa and he’s a 15 month old border collie. Except he doesn’t look much like...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/23992227815</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/23992227815</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 12:32:00 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>The idea of managing an illness</title><description>This isn’t necessarily an approach I pursue and I sometimes even flagrantly disregard it, but I do...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/23990618999</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/23990618999</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 11:23:32 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>Clomipramine continued</title><description>From 25mg I have made it up to 100mg. The side effects have generally subsided, except for the dry...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/23953545412</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/23953545412</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 22:40:00 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>Clomipramine</title><description>I have started taking clomipramine as per the recommendation of the neuropsychiatrist.  This is a...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/22778293556</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/22778293556</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:44:00 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>Bleeding hands</title><description>As the title might suggest, my hands are bleeding. I think this is because I have been washing them...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/22515702081</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/22515702081</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 15:24:11 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>Insight</title><description>Insight is something that OCD sufferers are usually expected to have. The idea is that we are able...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/22000592625</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/22000592625</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:45:00 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>Neuropsychiatrist (Doctor 8?) Part 3</title><description>&amp;#8230;continued
I zoned out during a lot of the brain anatomy he explained. I think I picked up on...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/21269169169</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/21269169169</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:01:11 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>Neuropsychiatrist (Doctor 8?) Part 2</title><description>&amp;#8230;continued
After that, he diagnosed OCD and advocated medication as the only way forward. He...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/21263313852</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/21263313852</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:45:28 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>Neuropsychiatrist (Doctor 8?) Part 1</title><description>I saw a neuropsychiatrist this Friday 13th. Despite the date, I liked him and I think he is the best...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/21232905645</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/21232905645</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:44:00 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>Dear Obsessive Compulsive Disorder</title><description>I just want you to know, I really hate you. I don&amp;#8217;t like to say I hate things but, in your...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/21043661590</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/21043661590</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:45:02 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>Log jam and a long to do list</title><description>I have multiple things to do, some of them time-sensitive. Unfortunately, I get so hung up on doing...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/20962922616</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/20962922616</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:40:30 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item><item><title>Contamination</title><description>Unfortunately, this blog has become &amp;#8220;contaminated&amp;#8221; which makes it difficult to write...</description><link>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/20583495423</link><guid>http://itspsychosomatic.tumblr.com/post/20583495423</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:58:15 +0100</pubDate><dc:creator>heyamigo</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>
