intrusive thoughts awareness – Snuggles and Struggles

The Cleaning Disease?

There is so little awareness about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The term OCD has been misused so frequently by so many people. I thought OCD was a disorder where people wanted their house to be completely spotless and everything in its place. Although, there is contamination OCD (the stereotypical one people think of) people who struggle […]

Fight the Spiders!

M.J. has started this new game where he pretends to shoot spiders with his “bubble gun”. By the way, if you don’t buy your kids toy guns they will apparently make one out of blocks. Anyway, while we were getting the spiders this morning I felt inspired to write a poem: There are spiders all […]

God, are you there?

I found the sermon in church this morning very interesting. It was talking about when we feel like God is silent in our life. I felt like God was silent in my life when I was struggling with OCD and suicidal thoughts. I wondered why God didn’t take my intrusive thoughts away. I wondered if […]

Won’t Go Speechless

I recently watched the live action Aladdin movie and I really liked it. There was one song in there that I especially liked. This song isn’t in the original cartoon Aladdin so I’m sorry to all you Disney sticklers. “I won’t be silenced. You can’t keep me quiet. Won’t tremble when you try it. All […]

To the human

To the human: Who’s struggling with intrusive thoughts Who’s had suicidal thoughts Who’s had low self-esteem Who’s thought everyone would be better off without them To the human: Who is constantly hoping they didn’t accidentally offend someone Who cares too much what others think of them Who worries no one likes them To the human: […]