High-functioning OCD: when your compulsions look like strengths
Rereading every email, overpreparing for every meeting, thinking a decision through one more time. In high-functioning OCD, the compulsions are often the parts of you other people praise.
When your diagnosis never quite fit: how OCD, ADHD, anxiety, and eating struggles get mixed up
If you've collected diagnoses that never quite fit, or done treatment that should have worked and didn't, the problem may be the diagnostic picture rather than you.
ADHD or OCD? How to tell the difference, and what it means when it's both
Both can leave you stuck on a thought, unable to finish things, and quietly ashamed. But what drives the repetition is different, and so is the treatment.
Is it ADHD or trauma? Why they look alike, and why it's often both
Big emotions, trouble focusing, bracing for criticism, and a long history of feeling like a failure can come from ADHD, from trauma, or from both. Sorting it out changes what helps.
"Do you still love me?" When reassurance in a relationship is actually OCD
If the reassurance never holds for long, no matter how good it is, the problem may not be your communication. It may be OCD, and the relationship has been recruited to feed it.
When ADHD gets mistaken for treatment resistance
You understand the plan and still can't make it happen between sessions. Sometimes that isn't resistance. It's ADHD that the treatment was never built around.
Five reasons relationship OCD stays stuck in therapy
If you've spent months in therapy trying to figure out whether you really love your partner, the problem may be the approach, not you. Here's where ROCD treatment tends to go wrong.
Insurance vs. private pay: why I work the way I do
Private pay can feel like a door closing. Here's how my practice is set up, why, and how to figure out what therapy would actually cost you.