Lost on Repeat

Who is a compulsive and obsessive person?

Unfortunately, we don’t fit neatly into checkboxes. Maybe you follow relentless rituals to prevent irrational worries about your health, contamination fears, or anxiety-provoking thoughts about harming people. You may feel a constant need for things to be balanced and even.

Perhaps your demanding internal standards mean you regularly work fourteen-hour days, still find time to Sellotape the carpet for dust, and set five alarms before bed to get your four hours of sleep. Because no one should ever be late, right?

I’ve experienced both OCD and demanding internal standards from both sides of the therapy room. As a psychologist, I’ve spent many years helping others with their struggles, and for over three decades, I’ve managed my own.

I’ve seen five therapists, each with a different approach, with no single silver bullet. My own recovery has been an accumulation of knowledge and a gradual process of piecing things together.

This book offers an honest, unfiltered reflection from both sides of therapy on the messy, frustrating, and unpredictable reality of living life on repeat.