We used to have it on an index card and then it slowly transformed to a group chat message, the message being printed out, and then we take photos of the photo of the photo so it gets zoomed out each year 😅
Cropped my sister out so you couldnt see it. But here it is in all its glory! It makes a great batch! Enjoy!
Ive had OCD since childhood and have had many themes come and go throughout my life. The past 6 years have focused on health anxiety (coincidentally appearing during the start of COVID with me as a HCW)! And as recently postpartum in 2023 and now in 2026, shifting to a focus on disaster preparations.
What im struggling with is that these themes seem perfectly rational to worry about. We SHOULD worry about contracting viruses that could disable us. We SHOULD have some level of preparations for potential natural and man made disasters.
Before, I could kind of walk myself through a theme and be like, "girl, this isn't rational" and it would help me "wake up". But im struggling with doing that with my current themes.
Im instead trying to taper behaviors. Like yes, be prepared, but let's not doomscroll about the potential oil crisis for hours on end and try to find reassurance. Or yes, let's be aware of what's circulating virally and have a system in place but let's maybe not refresh the wastewater data 30x a day.
How do you guys find balance when dealing with themes that maybe do warrant a response/plan of action, without letting your OCD go overboard? It feels like such a slippery slope!