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I haven’t been actively posting here for a while, but have been lurking. Trying to keep plugging away. I decided to ask about obsessing over relationships. Lately I feel like I am constantly fixated on response or lack of response from people. I am so sensitive it all right now. It consumes my...

Have you ever felt something so much in the depths of your being, but you just can’t reflect it on the outside? I am pretty sure that if I actually could surface those feelings from the depths, people in my life wouldn’t know what to do with me. I may not even get put of bed for a week. Is this...

She just told me today she is leaving the practice in about six weeks. Noooooooo!!! I know she won’t leave me to just figure it out, but D@M* it!!!!! She has been my lifeline this past year. Ugh. Heart broken. And she isn’t sure she is going to even stay in practice elsewhere, as she is getting...

Friday the hospital roll sheet arrived on my desk. One of my patients was highlighted with a self inflicted gun shot wound to the left upper abdomen. A family member was in another room when the gun went off. My patient is still clinging to life in an ICU. I took it so hard. Immediately bearing...

As I’ve begun digging deeper, I’ve noticed the self-sabotaging behaviors return. Does anyone else have any struggles with this? The worst part is, having gone through therapy before, the fact that I KNOW this time what it is. The stopping the meds for no good reason. The picking up of old...

So I was carrying my 2 year old down the steps on Friday, went to step into the last step and it wasn’t there. Somehow that protective instinct managed to kick in and I was able to twist him away from taking the brunt of the fall. It’s about that time I heard the “pop” of my ankle. Now I am laid...

So my T broached with me today the possibility of an underlying OCD diagnosis as well as PTSD. I started researching it and holy $h!t, did the straight cognitive obsessive fit me. Anyone else dealing with dual diagnoses? I thought all of the “intrusive thoughts” were different from my...