A little story about "responsibility-ocd"
Question:
Lars wrote: >I guess the moral of the story is: >It’s easier to give support than to follow it yourself.
I think that there’s a lot of truth in your moral. Regards, Steve
Response:
I think you are right, Lars. I thought over if I was in a position to give help to someone with OCD, perhaps I would see the things a bit different and therefore in a more "realistic" way. An irony of OCD, i think !
Response:
Lars wrote: > Today when I had been out shopping I happened to pass two old ladies > plucking some apparently poisonous berries from some bushes. They looked a > bit weird, and I thought they might be senile. (Yes, I’m talking about the > old ladies, not the berries.) 
> I felt I had a responibility to stop and ask them if they were aware that > the berries were poisonous.
I would have confronted the old ladies on the berries and if they ended up hitting me over the head with canes, then I still would have stood my ground. Badly bruised and bleeding I would have gone home to look up the berries in a book to make sure they were really poisonous. Actually if the ladies were strange and senile then I would have enjoyed adding them to my list of strange associations.(By the way, I was hoping the strange and senile berries were picking the poisonous ladies. I think they have sexual harassment laws to combat that sort of situation.) Sloth Master
Response:
Lars, If you know the berries are poisonous and the ladies were picking them, it IS NOT OCD to think that they might not know they are poisonous. It is not your "responsibility" to inform them that they are poisonous but it is good thinking and it is not unreasonable or irrational to "feel" some responsibility to inform them. After all, would you not want someone to warn you if you were intent on eating something that you didn’t know was poisonous? On the other hand, if you don’t know if the berries are poisonous or if you know they are not poisonous but you have some "doubt" whether they are, that would be ocd. — Take care of your "self". whatatrip rbol…@premier1.net L.Ros. <ro1.be…@get2net.dk> wrote in message
news:WV5L3.517$T%1.424@news.get2net.dk… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> x-no-archive: yes > ——– > The other day I wrote a long reply to Daniel Groll, about feeling a > responsibilty for protecting other people from getting hurt. I thought I > gave some relatively sensible advice in it. > Today when I had been out shopping I happened to pass two old ladies > plucking some apparently poisonous berries from some bushes. They looked a > bit weird, and I thought they might be senile. (Yes, I’m talking about the > old ladies, not the berries.) > I felt I had a responibility to stop and ask them if they were aware that > the berries were poisonous. > On the other hand I knew that this was an ocd-thought, and I tried to > remember all the advice I had given to Daniel. > But as I was cycling away, I thought: "What if they are really senile or > crazy and are going to eat the berries if I don’t warn them, then it will be > my rersponsibility. What if this is not my ocd, but a rational feeling of > responsibility?" > I couldn’t find a way out of that dilemma alone, and eventually I had to > call my brother and ask him if he thought it was just my ocd talking. He > did, and I went home. > I guess the moral of the story is: > It’s easier to give support than to follow it yourself. > Lars > ——– > delete .beans to reply by e-mail > ——–
