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“Hi, Damon. It’s Me… Again.”
After an EKG, Echo and labs, the cardiologist concluded, drum roll please… all tests were negative. I did not experience a cardiac event, so what was it? As I ruminated about the situation, obsessively inquiring with Dr. Google, it all kept circling back to a panic attack. Could that really be what happened? The dizziness,…
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“2016”
2016. As I sit here, preparing myself to embark on the journey of sharing one of the most challenging years of my life, my hands shake, a pit has formed in my stomach and a feeling of uneasiness has come over me. I have not written in two months because thinking of sharing this part…
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“Discharged.”
Over the next few months, I continued to work through my exposure hierarchy. With hard work and determination, I completed exposures with an anxiety rating of 6/7, on a scale of 0-7. These exposures included “contaminating” the house after touching non-organic fruit, consuming a food item containing Red Dye 40, resisting the urge to seek…
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“Back… again”
Historically, I would have started this narrative with something like “Sorry I’ve been absent” or “My apologies, I had to take some time away”. The reality is that my OCD got in the way of something I love to do… again. I set out to share my struggles and successes with OCD, Anorexia Nervosa, Bipolar…
Smashing Stigmas 