Tag «CBT»

Snippet 02 – Spit it Out

It’s nearly seven years since I attempted to wrestle back control of my life from the entirely unfavourable patterns I had settled into. Excessive indulgence; the blurring of weekends into weekdays; laziness in the extreme; total lack of ambition. I’d carried on in this way for quite some time, despite it being deeply unfulfilling, and …

Reveal 02 – Anxiety: The Ghost of Anticipation

For a so-called social animal, the games we play with one another and lengths we’ll go to in order to blend in or at least avoid causing a ruckus, seem to be a lot like hard work, begging the question of just how easy being sociable is. Necessary, yes. Conducive to well-being, almost certainly, especially …

Pure-O. Entry 01: The inner world of OCD

It sits on your skull, shuffling and wriggling its hind quarters until safely nestled on the most sensitive places imaginable in and around the cranium’s pressure points. Burrowing deeply, its safety clamps strategically latch onto key locations surrounding the brain’s activity hub. The filter, the barrier, between inner awareness and outer experience, is infiltrated, tampering …