The Cleaner

JOURNAL ENTRY-SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2012  (Late night/early Monday morning)MUST. CLEAN. EVERYTHING. I don’t have time to write, there are things to do, things to clean, things to organize. I have dusted every nook… Continue reading →

Magical Thinking Outside the Box

I fall into the category of a patient who holds the erroneous belief that ones thoughts, words, or actions will cause or prevent a specific outcome in some way that defies commonly understood… Continue reading →

The Evolution of My Self-Mutilation, Part II

(This is going to be a very difficult post to write; I’ve never confessed these things to anyone. I’m completely humiliated and ashamed and embarrassed to death to admit these things out loud,… Continue reading →

The Evolution of My Self-Mutilation, Part I

I don’t know what the trigger was, or what initially drew me to it. All I can remember is that sometime around the age of 13, I began cutting.  It was my secret. … Continue reading →

The Care and Feeding of Us- Part II

We’ve talked about K’s bizarre food preferences (The Care & Feeding of Us-Part I); now I’m going to tell you how her mental illness affects the physical way she eats.  In Part I,… Continue reading →

The Care and Feeding of Us-Part I

K is hungry.  That’s not unusual for her.  You can often hear her stomach rumbling from lack of food.  She’s trained herself to ignore the hunger.  We have to feed her, for survival’s… Continue reading →

How I Became a Walking Drugstore

Since the diagnosis which I’ve had for years has practically been scratched off my chart, so to speak, I figured this was a good time to review what disorders we DO have, or… Continue reading →

Groundbreaking Ceremony For Our World

We’ve been thinking a lot lately (that should come as no surprise-our brain NEVER shuts itself off) and have decided to make a list (yes, the ever-popular list-making, a hallmark of K’s OCD)… Continue reading →

Read This! (AGAIN.)

THIS PART IS SO ANNOYING, IT ABSOLUTELY DRIVES ME/US/WHOMEVER IS DOING THIS-THIS OBSESSIVE TYPING, RESEARCHING, STUDYING, ETC.-It is driving us fucking crazy! KELLIE HAS TO REREAD EVERY LAST BLOG POST AND JOURNAL ENTRY… Continue reading →

Time For Words

Here we go again.  I wonder how long I’ve been doing this?  and by “This” I mean coming to reality, waking up from my dreamworld, snapping into focus.  I’m back, I’ve been here… Continue reading →