Mental health as a “trend”, pill shaming and severe mental illness

Hot take. Most of the trendy convo about mental health focuses on helping generally healthy folks deal with everyday stressors and sometimes folks with mild illness symptoms. It rarely talks about supporting folks with severe debilitating mental illness in a useful way except to share suicide hotline numbers. The thing is why let it get […]

Contamination OCD: imagination vs reality

So I came up with a long list of ideas for blog posts and as usual procrastinating on writing them because of wanting them to be perfect. So gonna break out of that cycle and just write this one without worrying about how good it is… So I wanna talk about Contamination OCD. OCD has […]

Religious OCD and Me

I’m currently dealing with mental health issues so several of my blog posts around this time will be around mental health. My health issues have changed over the years but I’m gonna start with how it began. When I was a little kid, around 3rd grade I think, I was diagnosed with OCD. As far […]

Why are we here

So apparently I created a blog with this name back in 2010 and never got around to posting on it… Obviously English is not my first language…back in 2010 I didn’t know the word *facepalm* hence the name…but honestly not sure I’ve ever seen someone around here (North America) actually do a facepalm gesture properly…the […]