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stunning realization
I have recently gone through (and am still enduring) a very humiliating experience. While praying the other night, I believe the Holy Spirit opened up my eyes to see it in a whole new light: Wow,...
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Mental illness is a medical problem.
One thing that frustrates me to no end is when people treat mental illness like moodiness, as if you can just snap out of it, instead of like the medical issue it is. This mindset is so pervasive that...
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Can shame co-exist with grace?
Earlier this week, A Deeper Story shared an incredible post called “A Lesson in Words: They Mean Things,” and while I generally like to produce my own work on my blog, this post was too good not to...
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Unashamed
I have OCD! I have OCD, and I don’t care who knows it! (Can you picture me spinning around like Buddy the Elf?) No, but really, I’m not ashamed of my mental illness. Why should I be? Illness is not...
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Interview with a Former HOCD Sufferer
Hey peeps! Since I’ve been getting so much traffic on my blog in regard to HOCD (homosexual OCD), I thought I’d do another post on it. This interview is with “Hannah,” who tells me she is ready to...
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The Dreadful O of OCD
My friend Janet over at OCDtalk recently blogged about how, so often, all people know of obsessive-compulsive disorder are the visible compulsions, as opposed to the invisible obsessions. And back in...
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Being Me with OCD by Alison Dotson
I first connected with Alison Dotson through the International OCD Foundation blog, where we realized that we were both from Minneapolis and made plans to get coffee. I can still remember that first...
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The Invisible Fight
There’s a scene in C.S. Lewis’s Voyage of the Dawn Treader where Lucy, Edmund, Eustace, and Caspian land on an island inhabited by invisible people who seem to be enemies. The group talked over their...
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Is Mental Illness a Spiritual Issue?
The question is complicated; my answer is too. Yes and no. As a Christian, I believe that basically everything is a spiritual issue because I believe in a sovereign God. My particular set of beliefs...
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The Darkest Days
There is a little Caribou Coffee in Long Lake, Minnesota, where I sat one morning since I’d arrived too early to my visit to Orono High School. I stared at my steaming hot cocoa and repeated to myself:...
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