How are people with OCD handling the COVID-19 Pandemic?
For Healthline
“You think, ‘If 20 seconds is good, then 40 seconds is better.’ It’s a slippery slope.”
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Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Lead to Increased Rates of PTSD and Trauma?
for Healthline By now, it’s become extremely clear that the best way to contain the COVID-19 pandemic is for all of us to practice physical distancing and stay home. While cases of COVID-19 are still in all 50 states, states with early shelter-in-place orders have been able to “flatten the curve” more effectively than those that haven’t. […]
Read MoreBut The Drugs Keep Me Sober
For The Small Bow
Most recovery programs require total abstinence to be considered sober. But is a sober performance worth your sanity and personal safety?
High Pressure
For Anxy
Extreme expectations mean extreme stress for the teenagers trying to graduate from California’s elite schools. What’s life like inside a pressure cooker? Just ask the kids who are living it.
Ask an Addict: Partying Post Relapse
For Paste Magazine
Read MoreA sober woman’s journey through the booze-fueled holiday season
For Quartz
“There is exactly one reason I am going to the holiday party,” my friend said of his company’s annual gathering. “Free booze.”
Ask Katie: How Do I Not Be the Sober Buzzkill During the Holidays?
This piece is part of the regular Ask Katie* advice column series at The Fix. Hi Katie, This is my third holiday season sober. I come from a big, Irish family and we see each other fairly frequently, though we’re rarely all together (there’s like 25 of us) except at the holidays. I know how […]
Read MoreBlack Lives Matter: A Reading List
Originally posted on Longreads:
This week’s reading list has three parts. Part One features Black authors writing explicitly about anti-Black police brutality. Part Two features Black authors writing about subjects other than police brutality, because maybe it’s in your best interest not to subject yourself to more mental anguish than is necessary, and because Black people…
Addiction is Accidental
The general public doesn’t understand that addiction is accidental. Choosing to use the substance isn’t accidental, but crossing the line into addiction is.
Read MoreMy Scar is Nothing to be Ashamed of
Being bikini-ready was the last thing I cared about.
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