YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

Thankyou Oak and manual_moe_g for your links, kind thoughts and interest in helping :-) Part of the struggle is that I can't honestly say that my beliefs are completely aligned with Catholicism, so I can't help being skeptical about some of the belief-based reassurances that priests (such as de Sant...

My head is home to all kinds of thoughts, beliefs and opinions I have no interest in.

I have OCD/scrupulosity, and while I can dispel some thoughts if they don't come with too much emotion, it is usually impossible to do so if they came along with anger or irritation. I have all manner of unwanted thoughts, and I feel some kind of irritation and guilt simultaneously. I have a longer ...

I hear often that a good way of dealing with unwanted thoughts is to recognise that they are unbidden, and to let them drift away by themselves. The problem I have with this is that it isn't just thoughts - its also a feeling/emotion, which seems to make it more "mine". I have scrupulosity...