The end of June is, for lecturers in Spain at least, synonymous with the beginning of the summer time holidays. The previous couple of weeks are usually hectic, with courses within the morning and meetings in the afternoon and night, adopted by dinners out with fellow lecturers or students, and it’s only whenever you finish the final class that you just come to appreciate that this is it”, the vacations have began.

You can hopefully start to see how exhausting this may be and the way the concept of a vacation begins to seem like a whole lot of work. I really wish to go on vacation with my family this year, but I don’t need to deal with the OCD on vacation, and I know it will be there. When I consider how a lot worse my OCD is now in comparison with the Colorado vacation 2 years ago, …