The not so obvious OCD mum

I wrote up an entire post on my first session and unfortunately lost the lot! Gutted. I'l first explain that i was on a waiting list for Cognitive behavioral therapy for around 6 months which flew by for me as i was doing other things in the mean time to try and help myself through this illness.  If you'd like to have a read of what i done then this link here will take you to my post all about  What i found help relieve the anxiety, if only slightly Although i found other things that helped me i could have really done with CBT back when i was in my worst place with OCD, when i really didn't understand it all or what was happening to me.  The only thing i would say on how waiting so long has worked in my favor is that it gave me time to research and i honestly think for me knowledge of OCD and all the research I've done on the illness has helped me understand how it works. I have bad days now and then but i'm not in the place i was which is a huge ste...

So i am due to go to my very first CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) session on Tuesday 19th December and i am honestly feeling a mixture of excitement and anxiousness. Excitement is probably a little over the top, i'm more just looking forward to it because I've heard such good things about this type of therapy and i'm so hopeful for it to help me. I am feeling a little anxious because i haven't been to anything like this before so its a bit of fearing the unknown and what my therapist will want me to talk about. I have seen a Councillor before, she was through a charity who were working with my doctors surgery and while i was on the waiting list for CBT i chose to see their Councillor.  Unfortunately it didn't work out, i was let down after my very first session because the Councillor i was seeing would simply not turn up to my session or i wouldn't hear back regarding when my next session was or she would just cancel and try to rearr...

Hi all of you lovely people who visit my blog for one reason or another, I've kind of neglected my blog over the past month, for several reasons really. The first mainly being down to our house being hit by an infection of some sort which meant my 2 boys and the OH were unwell for 3 weeks, 3 weeks!!! I missed some college to take care of the boys - J missed some school, baby D missed some nursery and the OH soldiered on into work regardless.  Then just when everything was slowly getting back to normal and back into routine i broke my toe last Sunday, 3 hospital trips and an x ray confirmed its definitely broken and of course not to mention the beautiful shade of green/purple that my foot has gone.  I feel proud to add that i have never ever, until now, broken a single bone in my body. Prior to both of these things i was struggling to write a few posts that i wanted to on here along with also finding that i was having the odd 'bad' day.  I spent one night writing up...