“There is always one moment in childhood
when the door opens and lets the future in.”
Graham Greene.
In The Beginning
[This article originally appeared in Kidscope, the OC Foundation newsletter for children, in January of 2001]
In the beginning…
Summer was here, that glorious time when school was a distant memory and endless days of sun and sand lay ahead: September and the return to books and rules, a vague discomfort somewhere over the horizon. At 10 years old … Read The Rest >>
Hi my name is “Tammy” and I do believe I have obsessive compulsive disorder as well as general anxiety disorder.
I remember as a small child I was continually preoccupied with weather or not we had enough food in the house, if we were running low on something I would stress until my mother replenished the supply. This still holds true 25 years later. I can not run out of any household supplies or I feel … Read The Rest >>
Hi
I’m not sure where to begin. It all began in 1997 when we moved. I had my first “attack” of anxiety. It came on so quickly I didn’t even know what it was. I suddenly was very afraid of dying and would imagine a funeral (my own) which would just make the anxiety worse. It felt like an impending doom sort of thing…like something really bad was going to happen and I would die as … Read The Rest >>
“I also saw the awful agonies that Tantalus has to bear. The old man was standing in a pool of water which nearly reached his chin, and his thirst drove him to unceasing efforts; but he could never get a drop to drink. For whenever he stooped in his eagerness to lap the water, it disappeared. The pool was swallowed up, and all he saw at his feet was the dark earth, which some mysterious … Read The Rest >>
Doubt is thought’s despair; despair is personality’s doubt. . .;
Doubt and despair . . .
belong to completely different spheres;
different sides of the soul are set in motion. . .
Despair is an expression of the total personality,
doubt only of thought.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Doubt as a disorder?
For myself and those millions of others who live with the “Doubting Disease”, as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is sometimes called the answer is, yes. For us doubt can be pathological.
There is a … Read The Rest >>
