Who Is That Stranger? Learning How to Accept the New and Sober You Staying SoberBy PromisesDecember 10, 2012Do you avoid looking in the mirror lately? Maybe this is a practice you’ve adopted only recently, since you’ve come home from rehab. Being clean and sober is one thing, but having to peer at that stranger looking back at you from the mirror is quite something else. You may be rather unprepared for the…
Alternative Treatments for OCD – What Works, What Doesn’t Mental HealthBy PromisesDecember 10, 2012Intrusive thoughts that won’t go away. Disturbing impulses. Compulsive behaviors that don’t make sense. No matter how hard you try to stop or control them, you can’t. That’s the nature of the challenging and complex anxiety disorder known as obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD for short. OCD can manifest in a variety of ways, ranging from…
