Ellen's OCD Blog
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Hello! My name is Ellen and I'm 22. I have OCD and I blog about my experiences with it, hopefully helping other's along the way.
Ellen's OCD Blog
2y ago
Hello! Long time no post…so I thought I’d share this with you all. Also as an update: I’m now 22 and living in Scotland! **someone has taken my website domain ellensocdblog.com (it lapsed and it didn’t auto renew, so I know it was fair game and use) but it now means all my previous work ..read more
Ellen's OCD Blog
2y ago
So. Long time no post. Over the last 10 months, my life has taken a direction that has been unexpected, to say the least. In short, I have had to drop out of university due to my mental and physical health and I am now currently attending an eating disorder unit at a local hospital ..read more
Ellen's OCD Blog
2y ago
“Just tell someone how you feel“…maybe easier said than done. …sometimes, finding the words to say how you feel is tricky. What if you don’t know how you feel? What if you don’t understand how you feel? What if you feel nothing? I think there’s a misconception that you need to understand and be able ..read more
Ellen's OCD Blog
2y ago
Radical acceptance is a concept that I use quite regularly in order to help me cope day to day and to challenge negative thoughts and feelings. It is a concept that you will most probably hear associated with DBT (dialectical behavioural therapy), as it falls under the module of distress tolerance within its framework. I myself ..read more
Ellen's OCD Blog
2y ago
A cup of confidence, of energy, a gulp of pure desperation. Waiting for that synthetic hit, to give me motivation. A simple substance, yet, with so much power. Will it finally make me shower? I drink too fast, it scorches my throat. My body screams ‘NO’, but it doesn’t get a vote. I get on with my ..read more
Ellen's OCD Blog
2y ago
The little green man with the red boots. That voice inside your head that cunningly infects the way you think, insisting you miss that snack, skip that class and do that compulsion just one more time. Just. One. More. Time. JUST. ONE. MORE. TIME… For a long time, I struggled to separate OCD, anorexia etc. from myself. This was particularly evident ..read more
Ellen's OCD Blog
2y ago
A few days ago, I was met with a situation that immediately spiked my OCD and irrational thoughts. However, I ended up being one step ahead of my OCD and defeated its logic, which was something I was very surprised at. In a nutshell, I couldn’t attend a therapy appointment because my psychologist was unwell ..read more
Ellen's OCD Blog
2y ago
Yesterday, Prime Minister Theresa May delivered a speech announcing “plans to ‘transform’ attitudes to mental health, with a focus on children and young people”. Government mental health funding, awareness and reform has, unfortunately, often been left on the sidelines and has taken the brunt of many cuts and then ultimately lacking adequate funding for the volume ..read more
Ellen's OCD Blog
2y ago
Today I turned 18. This is a milestone for me. Not in the regular sense of becoming an adult and thus legally being able to fill my whole room with alcohol, but in the sense that I’ve somehow made it through my teenage years and I’m about to move onto the next stage of my ..read more
Ellen's OCD Blog
2y ago
You deserve happiness. This may seem a little outright coming from a stranger, but it’s true. However I won’t define happiness for you, that’s what is so special about it. Nobody’s happiness is identical. Maybe you’re happy because you got full marks on a test, or maybe you’re happy because you didn’t let an intrusive ..read more