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Georgiegirl256

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

Also I inderstand your concerns about the wedding. I'm about 7(!!) stow. Heavier than when I last saw my cousins and Grandma and im dreading my cousins wedding for similar reasons (and cos my Grandma is very blunt and known for saying stuff like it is-my mum and dad are always getting comments about their weight). I'm trying to lose weight but even if I do im not going to lose it all by then. My strategy is give them something else to focus on and make sure I feel good in what I'm wearing.

Sorry MU, thought I'd quoted you before, didn't mean to ignore your post!

Your gran sounds like mine was. She had a sharp tongue. Some people just don't think before saying something, or else they seriously don't realise how their comments affect people.

mellymoo74

Thanks Georgie
One of the reasons I do what I do for a living is my morals so leaving this will drive me mad.

Flybaby has seen the email in which they contradict themselves and the tone is well nasty I suppose would be the best description

Solicitors throw it all back and add consultants info I think.

elsien

Pyxis wrote: »

Thanks, Elsien, I had planned to watch it, as I know someone with severe OCD, but don't know much about it.

I watched a programme a while back about behavioural therapy for OCD and desensitisation. One person who had anxiety about germs had an eventual target to lick a toilet seat. I remember thinking that I don't have OCD and I couldn't have done that however much it had been cleaned.

Indie_Kid

Euw, that's disgusting!

Pyxis

Indie_Kid wrote: »

Euw, that's disgusting!

Yes, I agree, but illogical for us to feel that way if we know it's completely germ-free!

Imagine how the OCD sufferers must feel about all sorts of everyday things, like a sandwich!

I can only imagine the nightmare!

Imagine not being able to eat because you see the food as being as contaminated as we think that toilet seat is!

elsien

I get a very small taste of what it may be like when I go on holiday and start compulsively checking the documents at 5 minute intervals on the day of travel. I can put them away then immediately have to get them out again to check that I've got the right day, the right time and that my passport hasn't gone out of date since I last looked. I also make my poor mother check them for me at the same time. I know I'm being ridiculous, but still have to check just in case. I remember thinking at the time how awful it must be to feel like that all the time.

Indie_Kid

elsien wrote: »

I get a very small taste of what it may be like when I go on holiday and start compulsively checking the documents at 5 minute intervals on the day of travel. I can put them away then immediately have to get them out again to check that I've got the right day, the right time and that my passport hasn't gone out of date since I last looked. I also make my poor mother check them for me at the same time. I know I'm being ridiculous, but still have to check just in case. I remember thinking at the time how awful it must be to feel like that all the time.

That would be me too. I had a right panic when we were in France. I'd taken my passport out of my waist wallet / secure pouch and put it in my bag. I could not find it and I was convinced I'd lost it.:o I did find, thankfully!

I think I've talked here about my OCD, which seems to come and go. It seems to be ok for now, thankfully.

Pyxis

Indie_Kid wrote: »

That would be me too. I had a right panic when we were in France. I'd taken my passport out of my waist wallet / secure pouch and put it in my bag. I could not find it and I was convinced I'd lost it.:o I did find, thankfully!

I think I've talked here about my OCD, which seems to come and go. It seems to be ok for now, thankfully.

Gosh yes, I agree. I've totally lost count of the times I've got indoors and couldn't remember if I've locked the car, I have to go to the porch with the fob and unlock it and lock it. Unless I actually tell myself " I am locking the car", I never ever remember, and have to do it again. I can't imagine the nightmare of living with 50 times as many things to have to check every day.


Interesting that the programme suggested that it was a remnant from the prehistoric need to check, not just for overt dangers, but for covert ones as well. How debilitating to see covert dangers in virtually everything.

Flybaby

I can concur about Moo's email - she is putting it very nicely to just call it nasty.
Much {squishing} to all
I am feeling all mush at the moment. If I try and think (about pretty much anything), I get stressed very quickly. But I can't keep living with my brain turned off, it's not really living - it's existing. I was hoping that some time off work would help my brain come back to normal. hmmmm.....going to need a new plan.

mellymoo74

Fly you tried CBT OH is finding it good (now bot helping obvs)
(Sent maca info and smoothie gunf)