June 2025

As someone who identifies with all 8 of the diagnostic criteria for OCPD (yay for being an overachieving perfectionist! 😜) the ones about money/frugality and hoarding initially felt like they were sort of tacked on. They also seem, to me, to be more culturally contextual and ambiguous. After all, what is “money” other than an […]

Time to tolerate some distress! I’ve been working on distress tolerance and emotional resilience over the past few months in therapy and I’m here to (begrudgingly!) declare that it’s working. 😒 I’m still constantly reminding myself that the goal of learning skills in therapy is not to predict and eliminate future problems or pain but