Incertus

I am very slowly transferring over content from my old and very long standing OCD site Doubt and Other Disorders in the process of doing that I have discovered I neglected to date a lot of the entries. With some uh, digging I will be able to reconstruct the rough dates of most of it but for now they are all getting the date of 01/01/1996 which was roughly … Read The Rest >>

It was about time to upgrade Wordpress to the latest edition and while I was at that I thought why not change the theme. So I did.

Actually this design (which more then likely will be slowing evolving over the next few weeks/months) started out as a really nice clean and attractive theme called MistyLook , which was fixed width and somewhere along the way as I as playing with it … Read The Rest >>

You may be familiar with  humorist David Sedaris from his public radio commentaries.  A couple of years ago I stage managed a production of the play version of his Santaland Diaries, in which he chronicle’s his adventures as a Macy’s Christmas Elf.  Very funny stuff.

He also has OCD.  In the reading linked below he takes you inside his world as a child with OCD.

Salon.com Audio | “Naked” Listen to Sedaris read “A Plague … Read The Rest >>

Kids with OCD bullied more than others

The form of OCD I had as a kid (Pure O) didn’t have any outward manifestations so I could hide it really well. And since we moved a lot and it seemed I was always the new kid, I learned survival skills. Like not being different or alternately being scary(like figuring out who the baddest kid in school was and befriending them) in any case … Read The Rest >>