Tag: OCD
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Breakroom Temperatures, Preferred Seating, and Super Bowl Aggressions – Thoughts from February 11, 2026
My recent two-part article went into how I have OLD (obsessive-logical disorder). It’s not exactly OCD but is mental illness adjacent. I’m going to point out another time at work that my mind flips out. It takes place in a breakroom that I shortly discussed in one article. The breakroom has two major flaws. Being…
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Continuing Throat Problems, Odd Cabinet Connections, and OLD – Thoughts from February 1, 2026 – Part 1
On January 22, I had my checkup appointment for my throat. I changed the cough drops I used, but I could still feel something on my vocal cord. The polyp had grown back. I saw that on my last appointment. When the doctor came into the exam room, he asked how my throat was doing.…
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Brian Explains Hoarding – Thoughts from December 10, 2010
Brian Explains: Hoarding If you haven’t seen any of the shows about hoarding, you owe it to yourself to watch one. The basic premise of every show is that the person who the show is about cannot let go of things. “Things” include both physical and emotional things. It is the emotional baggage that compels…
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Brian Explains OCD – Thoughts from December 3, 2010
Brian Explains: OCD Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is defined by Merriam-Webster as a “psychoneurotic disorder in which the patient is beset with obsessions or compulsions or both and suffers extreme anxiety or depression through failure to think the obsessive thoughts or perform the compelling acts.” I don’t mean to brag, but I have several forms of…
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Thoughts from August 10, 2001
As usual, because it’s Friday, I’m thinking about the fact that it’s Friday. Obviously, this is a Friday I work. Okay, it might not be obvious to anyone who’s not directly watching me type this right now, but birds of a feather must paint together. I don’t remember what I was talking about and I’m…
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