OCD Dave

[...] ’m an introvert, that I’m sorry, that it isn’t them, but my ability to handle social interaction is limited. I try not to use my eccentricities as an excuse to get out of [...]

[...] rely on genuine emotion to generate facial expressions, and when you have to spend every social interaction consciously manipulating your face into shapes that are only approximately the right ones, [...]

[...] a book recently by Allie Brosh entitled Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened. The first two chapters (Warning Signs and The [...]

[...] excerpts from Allie Brosh’s  book Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened. Today I’d like to offer up a few more [...]

[...] I’ve been reading a book recently by Allie Brosh entitled Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and [...]

[...] Intro I recently posted some excerpts from Allie Brosh’s  book Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and [...]

[...] sleep – awaking from 1:30 am till 3 am. One might have expected this to result in additional napping the next day – but it did not. This actually is in keeping with my subjective experience [...]

[...] interruption in my light therapy usage and it is on these occasions that I experience the additional napping and sleepiness. Next Steps At this juncture I am taking melatonin before bed and also have [...]

Inevitably, when I share that I have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) someone says, “I think we all have some OCD.” I imagine that most people [...]

I have been on the obsessive side of self-conscious for as long as I can remember. Some of this is the result of my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder – [...]

I hate to admit it. I have been doing well better than well.[1] There have been ups and downs, life still throws me for a loop on a regular basis, [...]