That is so bonkers! I feel like I don't even have 90% of those options where I live - I'm from North Dakota and while I don't exactly live in the stone age, therapy is mostly pretty traditional. The last therapist I was seeing actually was a school therapist at the counseling center and she was pretty nice I guess. Your therapist sounds great though.
Modern pharmaceuticals are great except also I can be really weird about them and either forget to take them or just become convinced that I don't need them. Bipolar people are notoriously inconsistent with their medications and I am honestly not an exception.
My OCD is kind of different because I am a spiteful bitch so I just sort of force myself to do things that I am nervous about. I am actually finishing up a degree in microbiology, a lot because I enjoy the material but partly out of spite. Learning about how my body fights off germs and how bacteria actually work helps....up to a point, anyway. I still get irrational fears of 'toxins' in my food sometimes and I still always think about what I eat but it's better a lot of the time. Though I recently started tracking my food due to dieting and I've probably gotten a little too into that but what can you do. I had disordered eating patterns anyway so w/e
I still get nervous around kids but I try not to be because I do really love kids so whenever my young nephews and cousins are around me I just try to be really kind and remind myself that I am not dangerous. Still sometimes it is hard but what can you do :/
Re: OCD Matt Murdock, blasphemy obsessions
Modern pharmaceuticals are great except also I can be really weird about them and either forget to take them or just become convinced that I don't need them. Bipolar people are notoriously inconsistent with their medications and I am honestly not an exception.
My OCD is kind of different because I am a spiteful bitch so I just sort of force myself to do things that I am nervous about. I am actually finishing up a degree in microbiology, a lot because I enjoy the material but partly out of spite. Learning about how my body fights off germs and how bacteria actually work helps....up to a point, anyway. I still get irrational fears of 'toxins' in my food sometimes and I still always think about what I eat but it's better a lot of the time. Though I recently started tracking my food due to dieting and I've probably gotten a little too into that but what can you do. I had disordered eating patterns anyway so w/e
I still get nervous around kids but I try not to be because I do really love kids so whenever my young nephews and cousins are around me I just try to be really kind and remind myself that I am not dangerous. Still sometimes it is hard but what can you do :/