If Your C-PTSD Goes Into Remission, I'll Throw You a Pizza Party
If Your C-PTSD Goes Into Remission, I’ll Throw You a Pizza Party It started as a joke. A playful post on social media designed to add a...
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Grace Bithell
Nov 58 min read
How to Cope With C-PTSD: A Therapist's Guide to Healing
Disclaimer: The advice in the blog will not apply to every person with C-PTSD and this blog post is not a replacement for individual...
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Grace Bithell
Nov 47 min read
C-PTSD and Scrupulosity Walked into a Bar Together. There was no Punchline and Everyone Felt Bad.
Shame As a young sociology graduate student I was struggling with scrupulosity that I thought was in remission. It had stopped being so...
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Grace Bithell
Oct 225 min read
Mom Guilt, OCD Guilt, and a Whole Lot of Shame
While most of my colleagues call me an OCD specialist or a trauma specialist I call myself a guilt specialist. There's nobody better at...
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Grace Bithell
Oct 147 min read
Scrupulosity and Sex: Navigating Guilt and Shame Around Intimacy in a Religious Context
As a therapist specializing in scrupulosity , I often encounter clients grappling with intense feelings of guilt and shame surrounding...
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Grace Bithell
Oct 35 min read
Do I Have Scrupulosity?
A relative with scrupulosity once shared with me that in their first therapy session as a teen, their therapist asked them what was...
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Grace Bithell
Oct 33 min read
Utah Has a Shame Problem
As a therapist working in Utah I was hit very early on in my career by how much shame is affecting our community. Shame is the belief...
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Grace Bithell
Sep 102 min read
Is it Blasphemous to Watch the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives? A Scrupulosity Therapist's Take
If I had to describe my clients this week with one word it would be “triggered.” My clients tend to be LDS affiliated and worry a lot...
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Grace Bithell
Aug 282 min read
Help! My Kid has OCD, What do I do? How to do OCD Parenting
Any mental health diagnosis is hard on a parent. You want to help your kid, but unless you have a PhD in psychology you’re probably...
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Grace Bithell
Aug 143 min read
What If I'm Just Like My Mom? Parenting with a Serious Mental Illness
I’m Afraid I’ll Become My Mom Early on in my clinical work I treated a woman who I considered an exceptional parent. She often brought...
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Grace Bithell
Aug 13 min read
When Your OCD gets Religious
What the Heck is Scrupulosity? In a world where mental health awareness is becoming increasingly prominent, some conditions still remain...
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Grace Bithell
Jul 152 min read
Understanding Narcissism
Recognizing Narcissism Many of my clients come to me because they think their parent or partner might have been a narcissist. In today's...
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Grace Bithell
Jul 152 min read
Was My Parent A Narcissist?
Growing up with narcissistic parents can have profound effects on a person’s emotional well-being and development. Recognizing the signs...
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Grace Bithell
Jul 153 min read
Understanding EMDR Therapy
Most of my clients have been to therapy before. They’ve talked things out. They’ve learned coping skills and have developed some very...
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Grace Bithell
Jul 23 min read
What is EMDR Therapy? Healing PTSD
Over my years as a therapist I've worked with several individuals throughout Utah who feel stuck in talk therapy. They express that they...
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