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Bach Flower Remedies: Crab Apple And OCD

The Bach flower remedy Crab Apple stands for perfect order and balance but when there is need for it in the body, the person takes it to an extreme and wants everything around him to be flawlessly perfect. It...

15 comments    health natural remedies ocd
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Funny OCD Tendencies

    Obsessive compulsive disorders are pretty hard to break. They are also difficult to recognize as well. Many people have the usual compulsivity, like fingernail biting, hand washing, etc. But most...

17 comments    health love life
My trichotillomania: pulling out my eyelashes83

Trichotillomania Shame: The Secret Hair Pulling Compulsion

I want to share my experience with Trichotillomania to show that myself and fellow trichsters are not alone. I also hope that just by paying attention to myself and chronicling my actions, I can eventually decrease the compulsion. Most importantly, I want to start a discussion based on experience and suggestion that can help all of us trichsters find solutions together!

44 comments    health advice hair
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When Collecting Becomes a More Serious Problem of Hoarding

People love to collect items that remind them of childhood, favorite movie characters or items that they didn’t have growing up. I collected small ceramic animals mostly from Germany and later started to...

2 comments    advice family how to
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Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding

Are you a hoarder or do you know someone who is? If so, don't feel alone. Although once unrecognized, nowadays, most of us have been introduced to the problems of compulsive hoarding through the media....

15 comments    ocd compulsive hoarding
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HospiceLand - Christmas 2008

Christmas 2008 Christmas, mom's last I would guess, as she does as well. It is at these times when we are most tested and where our character is built. Do you give in to the despair or do you rise above it?...

6 comments    family christmas mom
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My Darkest Journey: Depression

Depression is a dark, ugly monster that consumes your mind with a spreading sensation of darkness. I know about depression first-hand. For one year of my life, I survived the clutch of this evil monster from...

32 comments    god depression therapy
You don't have to hide in a bubble78

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder In A Nutshell

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), is obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors so unpleasant that they complicate your daily life. It's rational on occasion to go back and verify that the stove is...

4 comments    symptoms ocd compulsive
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Do you have any OCD like tendencies? Are they kind of funny? Do they interfere with your day to day life?

First off, I didn't choose the title for this hub---It was a question asked by a fellow hubber that I felt compelled to answer.  I would have changed the title to my sub-heading:  Having a young child with...

0 comments    health life relationships
Cribbing Rings77

Anti-Cribbing Procedures

Cribbing is a habit some horses have, in which they clamp their front upper teeth on an immoveable object, arch their neck and gulp in air. They seldom chew the wood; that is a different vice - wood...

0 comments    surgery ocd veterinarian
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