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Posts Tagged: obsessive compulsive

Some of the Places I Am Stuck

By Cameron Gorman

January 12th, 2021

I lived there, suspended in the moment before I chose to move.

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Tags: anxiety, anxiety disorder, bipolar, Cameron Gorman, childhood, death, depression, ghost stories, ghost story, ghosts, grief, high school, Lexapro, loss, memories, memory, Mental Health, mental illness, nostalgia, obsessive compulsive, ocd, photography, regrets, relationships, roommates, self harm, Semyon Kirlian, suicidal ideation, trauma

The Rumpus Interview with Jenny Lawson

By Lianne Stokes

January 1st, 2016

Jenny Lawson talks about her second memoir, Furiously Happy, mental illness, and growing up in small-town Texas.

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Tags: a tree grows in brooklyn, ADD, antidepressants, anxiety, attention deficit disorder, blogging, Chronicles of Narnia, comedy, depression, health insurance, humor, Internet, Interviews, Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Lianne Stokes, memoir, mental illness, obsessive compulsive, ocd, shame, small town life, small towns, Texas, The Bloggess, trolls, writing

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