The Woman Who Thought Too Much

Inside the magical—yet destructive—thinking of OCD.

by Joanne Limburg

Claiming Territory Back From OCD—Part 2

A few months back, I blogged about learning to swim: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-woman-who-thought-too-much/201202/claiming-territory-back-ocd By the time I’d written the piece, I had managed to swim without any kind of float, but had yet to swim out of my depth. I really didn’t want to, but I knew I’d have to: pools for grown-ups to swim in appear to be designed on the assump Read More

Hoarding and Posterity

Sometimes it's an archive; sometimes it's hoarding. Read More

Is Being Well the Same as Being 'Real'?

There's an old Talmudic saying: 'We see the world not as it is, but as we are.' Read More

Claiming Territory Back From OCD

Why the only way for me to keep my OCD on the back foot is to do exactly what it's telling me I mustn't. Read More

The High Cost of Silence

Men need to feel that they can seek help. Read More

Livin' in an O-C Paradise

Imagine a world where everyone was just obsessive enough. Read More

So Does It Run in Your Family?

At book readings, I would always be asked whether OCD ran in my family, and my answer would have to be, 'Well, not officially, no.' Read More

How Not to Enjoy Your Pregnancy

When a woman falls pregnant, the whole world gets OCD. Read More

Me, My Child, and OCD

Sometimes you have to feel the fear and let your child do it anyway. Read More

Life with Dermatillomania

When a bad habit becomes a clinical problem. Read More

What's In a Label?

Why being diagnosed needn't be the worse thing that ever happens to you - or the best thing either. Read More

Sigmund Freud's Emotional Baggage

Therapists go on holiday in August; unfortunately, anxieties don't. High summer gives them far too much to feed on: you're supposed to be having fun, which makes it worse if you aren't; the heat makes everyone irritable; you are expected to expose your imperfect flesh; you probably go on holiday yourself, and that involves travelling. Read More