Interesting article — 50 Famous People with OCD

A reader asked me to post this link to an article on 50 Famous People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). These are all successful people, which is encouraging. :0)

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Believing Your Own “Unbelievable” Memories

On my blog entry entitled How to Work through Memories of Child Abuse, a reader posted the following comment: my major problem is owning he memory. How can you own it when the memories are so unreal? Alot of my memories are about rituals and torture, and sexual games, trying to tell yourself this was [...]

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Believing Your Own Memories

On my blog entry entitled How to Work through Memories of Child Abuse, a reader posted the following comment: I am wondering the same thing as Kelly…it’s so unreal … how do I believe memories like those, let alone “work through them”? Will I ever really know that they are real and I”m not just [...]

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Should I Believe Memories of Child Abuse?

On my blog entry entitled Flashbacks in the Form of Dreams after Child Abuse, a reader posted the following comment: i am at present having therapy for sexual abuse when i was younger…there has always been that knowledge in the back of my head that something happened..not sure why but it has always been there. [...]

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Grieving the Actions of Non-Abusing Parent

My son and I saw a school bus, which reminded me of something that happened when I was in sixth grade. This incident serves as a wonderful metaphor for my father’s role in my childhood. My father was the non-abusing parent who did make some effort to protect me (and did succeed in stopping my [...]

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