#panspandas means I’ve not spoken to my boy now for years. I’m constantly thinking of ways to communicate with him. This is a beautifully written book about, amongst other things, dealing with thoughts and emotions. Left it at his Moms for him.I hope he reads it, love you mate ❤️

Listen up: It's time to stop whispering about suicide. We are losing too many to silence. Help us shout about saving lives today, on #SamaritansAwarenessDay. Let’s prevent suicide today. Because tomorrow’s too late.

Last year she couldn’t touch a door handle without washing 20 times. Last week she opened the car door without thinking twice. That’s what happens when the fire in the brain calms. In PANS and PANDAS OCD isn’t a quirk. It’s not defiance. It’s immune-driven chaos

Progress, progress, I fight so hard to make progress. But one slight move. One slight feeling, Or reminder, of that hopelessness— That worthlessness, and helplessness, and pain that I felt back then. And just like that, suddenly I’m trapped in that room again—

The opposite of powerlessness is empowerment. We all deserve to know that empowered and limitless version of us.

I have someone interested in writing an article about our non profit for OCD awareness week. I could cry. I can’t say how much of myself I’ve poured into it in hopes it will help others with OCD. It has taken so much given my symptoms and matters so much to me. A way out.

I can’t say how hard I work. I give it my all when I really don’t have much left to give. Because it matters and I know the suffering behind those bedroom doors. No one deserves to experience that type of desperation and many still do. I want others to feel they can get out.

Running back to save others when you need saving too. An interesting type of pain. But no one deserves to suffer in that way alone. Everyone deserves to make it out.

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Every day you wake into a fight you did not choose. But biology shifts. Brains rewire. Bodies rebuild. What seems impossible today can become the breakthrough tomorrow. #PANDAS #PANS #Autism #ResilientKids

i wish more people knew how debilitating ocd is. i was essentially housebound 7.5 years ago. I met people in residential who survived suicide attempts. I met people who couldnt go outside or this one person who would move around in a wheelchair because everything

Damn straight. #bettertogether

OCD awareness month! i got diagnosed 6 years ago. i've suffered from huge panic attacks, psychotic episodes, delusions, suicidal behavior etc. it's not a fun personality trait, it's not about aesthetic. it's your brain bullying you to the point where you want to kill yourself

Repeated exposure to MOLD can mimic moderate traumatic brain injury. Breathing mold can trigger the body’s innate immune system = brain inflammation (hippocampus) = fewer new neurons & changes in memory, mood: anxiety/depression, and pain.

today is the first day of ocd awareness week!!! i’ve been very public about my journey with ocd. it is genuinely the most disabling and debilitating health condition i’ve ever experienced. i almost lost my life to it, but i’m still here! management is possible! #ocdweek

OCD can = injurious behaviors as a result of even remote contact with source of obsession. High distress and feelings of worthlessness. Compulsive cycles that feel inescapable. OCD can be harmful and is not enjoyable. Permanent physical and emotional scars.

You cannot beat someone who has already decided they will do whatever it takes for as long as it takes. And that person might as well be you.

there's no chemical solution to a spiritual problem.

Very much talking to myself.

Not seen my little Halloween beauty for nearly 6 years, miss you so much my gorgeous boy ❤️❤️