God, Ozempic, Chat GPT – this human needs a handrail
If God had a name what would it be?And would you call it to his face?If you were faced with Him in all His gloryWhat would you ask if you had just one question? I’d ask him why I was born in an age of too much choice, that’s for sure. Why wasn’t I born […]
Will Chat GPT feel my feelings for me?
I have been absent from here for nearly four months. It wasn’t meant to be that long. Actually it was either going to be a monthly contribution from me, or I’d disappear into oblivion. As the Christmas break became less of an excuse, I thought it may be the latter, but I was once taught […]
Motherhood and OCD
There was a fantastic report on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour regarding mental health in motherhood. I think it’s a real elephant in the room and needs to be talked about more, hence why I am covering it on this week’s blog post. The programme talked specifically about perinatal suicide, the leading cause of maternal […]
Dealing with uncertainty via Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
One of the most intriguing and indeed difficult areas of OCD to treat is what might be called False Memory / Real Event OCD. To summarise, it is where your brain takes a real memory that is innocuous and turns it into something horrific that gives you crippling anxiety. For instance, you may have a […]