Tag: Depression

Another reason to love Wil

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If you’re a sci-fi nerd like I am, you’ll immediately recognize the name Wil Wheaton. Wil played Wesley Crusher in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”. In recent years Wil has become something of a champion for nerd culture, even earning himself several cameo roles in the geeky sit-com The Big Bang Theory. I’m obviously a huge fan 🙂

A few weeks ago I found out something about Wil that I had never known – he suffers from depression. Here’s a video I came across recently where he describes his experience:

OCD: Curse and Blessing

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Earlier this week I produced a summary of a paper written by Dr. Daniel G. Amen about combating Automatic Negative Thoughts. I decided that today I’d add something of an addendum to that post and talk a little bit about my experiences with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

  

OCD is an anxiety disorder in which the sufferers have repeated, unwanted thoughts which compel them to perform certain actions which provide relief from the unwanted thoughts. This relief, however, is only temporary and the feelings, unbidden, soon return.  The OCD mind then demands that the actions be performed once again.  The actions quickly become ritualistic, increasingly elaborate and need to be repeated over and over again with increasing frequency in order to relieve the sufferer’s mind.

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