How to Understand a Mental Health Diagnosis

Getting a mental health diagnosis can be a confusing experience for many. For some it’s a validating, relieving force that finally puts a name and a frame around the feelings and experience they’ve been living. For others, it can feel like an undefined box they don’t understand or know how to accept.

Mantras, an exercise in rituals: helpful or hurtful?

Deceptively, the mantras we believe to be grounding us, may be worsening the symptoms of OCD and related spectrum difficulties.