Obsessive Disorder

Intrusive thoughts come up with what seems like a million flashing warning lights, like those coming up all at once on a car's faulty dashboard. None of them make sense, but they all feel so real, so personal, yet so alien to the person's heart, nature and beliefs.

Joey Lott shares his wisdom from more than 20 years of direct, personal experience with obsessive-compulsive behavior. He gives a frank and honest account of how his own personal obsession took hold, detailing the way in which one single childhood incident set off a chain reaction of behavioral abnormalities that led him down a spiral of destruction.

Three-hundred-fifty billion annually in psychiatric drugs, but where is the help or improvement in the people? Where is the science? No biological test to prove anyone has a disorder. ECT - no one knows "how it works". With no US federal regulations on it. Where is the US FDA with this? What is TMS? Do doctors diagnose people with disorders using a quiz?

Captive, Madeline Dyer's first poetry collection, is based on the therapy writings she produced when she was experiencing psychosis and OCD due to autoimmune basal ganglia encephalitis, a rare type of brain inflammation caused by the immune system attacking the brain. While her communication skills and cognitive abilities diminished due to the effects of the inflammation, she was able to share her thoughts and emotions via the written word

When you see perfectionism in others and see the results of perfectionism, you would probably have a hard time believing that perfectionism could be holding so many people back. Truth is, perfectionism is holding many people back in a lot of ways. When you see a perfectly clean home, a perfect workplace report, and a perfect garden you can't help but envy the perfectionist. Perfectionism takes time; it takes a lot of time to make things perfect, and not only does it cost you a great deal of time, but it is also costing you mental well-being and happiness.

Each and every person has some anxiety at some point in life. Natural anxiety can be beneficial and adaptive in some situations, but for millions of individuals, it can also be a source of tremendous anguish and discomfort. A person's emotional condition impacts their style of thinking, and vice versa. It's not just your thoughts that have an influence on your emotions. A person's thoughts and feelings are inseparable. As a result, it's not a one-way street.

Simon always has a lot to say. And sometimes he can’t stop talking - even in the middle of class. When Simon gets in trouble for jabbering at school, his best friends, Molly and Rosie, think up a plan to keep him from getting grounded at home! It involves cars, suds, and pink plastic flamingos! But will their big plan turn into an even bigger disaster?