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 …
I tapered down my Olanzapine over the last two weeks. As of yesterday my current psychiatrist ok’d me to stop taking at, as long as I take some with me on my upcoming trip (Feb 1 – 9 to England), just in case I need it. So I made it – I am well enough …
I’ve been an advocate of CBT (cognitive-behavioral therapy) for years now. It taught me to ask myself, when I’m feeling negative emotions, “What thought is behind these emotions?” And having got there, I could address that thought in ways that helped me feel better/get unstuck.