Positive aspects of OCD?
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Ever hear of ANTHRAX? – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Ann R Quay wrote: > sickofocd wrote: > > NO ONE can clean & decontaminate a house like me! Comes in handy > sometimes. > When is a decontaminated house ever required? Really.
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Multiple Personality Disorder????? – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Ann R Quay wrote: > Ann R Quay wrote: >> Yes. It is just an everyday experience for people to accidentally bring >> home bags of asbestos and raw sewage from the shop only to find someone >> has been murdered in their kitchen. > That is a fake posting. I did not post it. Someone else did.
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Please see your Dr. immediately!!! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Ann R Quay wrote: > Ann R Quay wrote: >> Gwwingo0220 wrote: >> > quaig >> > I have yet to see anything intelligent with your name on it >> I suspect you can’t see anything intelligent anyway. > This is the imposter trying to stir up trouble.
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Ann R Quay wrote: > Gwwingo0220 wrote: > > quaig > > I have yet to see anything intelligent with your name on it > I suspect you can’t see anything intelligent anyway.
This is the imposter trying to stir up trouble.
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PS- I had OCD from the time I was a teenager. I think it got triggered from my dad dying a horrible death from cancer when I was 13. I have a lot of health and death issues. It waxed and waned over the years and did not peak until I hit 30. That’s when I got the severe depression episode and finally got diagnosed. Ida
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> Out of curiousity Ida, did this experience scar you > mentally/emotionally? I can’t imagine it wouldn’t… I understand alot > of people get ocd from traumatic or extremely stressful experiences, > myself included. You must’ve seen some heavy stuff driving an > ambulance.
Yes and no. I think I would have been more traumatized if I had come upon something like that unknowingly (i.e. if a a neighbor had killed themselves) or if it had been a relative who did it. Since I knew ahead of time what had happened and I had two other attendants with me, it wan’t as scarring as you might think. It was a total stranger so it didn’t bother me like it would if it were someone I knew. I was a little upset because she was so young (around 13 yeard old or so. I was only about 19 or 20 myself and I remember thinking "What problem did this girl have that was so terrible that she killed herself?" ) Apparently her mother had committed suicide earlier that month. So yes, it *was* horrifying and I don’t think I’ll ever forget it totally. But it’s not like I think about this a lot or have bad dreams about it. There are only a few calls that gave me the heebie-jeebies and they freaked out my partners, too, so it doesn’t have anything to do with my OCD. (Such as the time 3 kids were doing 100 mph and slammed into the back of a tractor trailer). I just pray for the people and ask the Lord to let me do the best job I can. That usually makes me feel better if I fail. Ida
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quaig it will be easy enough to ignore your posts in the future I have yet to see anything intelligent with your name on it Jorge
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Gwwingo0220 wrote:
> quaig Hi, quaig <?> here. > it will be easy enough to ignore your posts in the future Be my guest. I couldn’t give a bull’s ball. > I have yet to see anything intelligent with your name on it I suspect you can’t see anything intelligent anyway.
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> I only know because I had to pick up the body of a young girl who blew her > brains out (in my ambulance driving days) but we did not clean up the mess > (i.e. the bits of skull and blood that were splattered all over the walls > and carpet). > Ida
Out of curiousity Ida, did this experience scar you mentally/emotionally? I can’t imagine it wouldn’t… I understand alot of people get ocd from traumatic or extremely stressful experiences, myself included. You must’ve seen some heavy stuff driving an ambulance. Just wondering.
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>NO ONE can clean & decontaminate a house like me! >Comes in handy
sometimes. Poorhouse, This really made me smile. Sometimes my OCD enables me to remain focused on a project long after others have given up. I am good at paying attention to details and don’t make a lot of mistakes on paperwork at work. Ida
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> When is a decontaminated house ever required? Really.
When someone is murdered and they need people to come in and clean up the mess. Or when harardous materials have contaminated a place. They actually have companies that you can hire to do this, although they are very expensive. Most OCDers would be too afraid to work for such a company, I would imagine. Ida
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Ida Kern wrote:
> When someone is murdered and they need people to come in and clean up > the mess. Or when harardous materials have contaminated a place. Yes. It is just an everyday experience for people to accidentally bring home bags of asbestos and raw sewage from the shop only to find someone has been murdered in their kitchen.
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Ann R Quay wrote: > Yes. It is just an everyday experience for people to accidentally bring > home bags of asbestos and raw sewage from the shop only to find someone > has been murdered in their kitchen.
That is a fake posting. I did not post it. Someone else did.
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Ann.r.quay!! That’s bullshit. The post came from the same address you are using to rebut having posted it. That could only happen if you surrendered the address temporarily and then re-established it again. Explain………………..!!!!!!!!!!! Jorge
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> Yes. It is just an everyday experience for people to accidentally bring > home bags of asbestos and raw sewage from the shop only to find someone > has been murdered in their kitchen.
I never claimed it was an everyday experience for the average person, however there are companies who do this type of cleaning for a living. It’s an everyday experience for them. I only know because I had to pick up the body of a young girl who blew her brains out (in my ambulance driving days) but we did not clean up the mess (i.e. the bits of skull and blood that were splattered all over the walls and carpet). Ida
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Gwwingo0220 wrote:
> Explain………………..!!!!!!!!!!! Explain what? Maybe you could explain to me what furniture would look like if our legs were hinged the other way around.
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I’m not sure if I have already responded to this post! (My brain is overloaded at mo!!sorry!!) But I have found quite a few positive aspects of ocd..not enough to make me love ocd, but enough to make me not see it as a curse. Ok here’s my list: 1) Ok well firstly, ocd lead me to my ideal career path – psychology, without ocd, I could now we sitting stressing about an accountancy assignment (yucko..I’d be so terrible at accountancy, no offence to accountant, it’s just not my thing). 2) It gave me a great deal of insight..I was so ignorant before..someone who suffered some mental health issue would have seemed a bit "crazy" to me before, as much as I hate to admit it now. Of course Idon’t believe anything of the kind anymore!! 3) I feel like I’ve overall improved as a person since my ocd..I’ve realised my actions a lot more (sometimes too much) but I am overall a kinder, more confident person now.. So ocd isn;t all bad! I hope others can find some positives too! Have a great week everyone!! ~Am~ xxx =)
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sickofocd wrote:
> NO ONE can clean & decontaminate a house like me! Comes in handy sometimes. When is a decontaminated house ever required? Really.
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I’m speaking figuratively rather than literally, so don’t think that I’m crazy when I say the following. I think there are two OCD cartoon characters in my life. The first one is evil and ugly and causes the obsessions and compulsions that worsen my life. He represents the negative aspect. The second one is cute and good and helps the organization and creativity that better my life. He represents the positive aspect. I’m starting to keep the positive aspect while losing the negative aspect. The positive aspect contributes to my self control and self discipline. I actually enjoy that aspect of it. I have control and power over it. I don’t experience any terrible emotions from it at all. It actually helps me to be more efficient by doing certain things in certain ways. The difference is that I can *choose* to use it.
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Gwwingo0220 wrote:
> OCD probably was behind my determination to complete college and pass > the CPA > exam. Right. OCD made you do it. Otherwise you would not have had the determination on your own –>? Gimme a O, gimme a D, gimme a great big C! Let’s give all the credit to OCD!
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xstor…@aol.comnojunk (Ben) wrote in message <news:20020417004641.02906.00004931@mb-ba.aol.com>… > I was wondering if anyone has found positive aspects in their OCD? Has anyone > used their OCD in a positive way, to develope a talent or direct their energy > in some other positive way? Being newly diagnosed, I don’t have a full > understanding of my disease, and was looking for someone else’s perspective. > Ben
Dear Ben, NO ONE can clean & decontaminate a house like me! Comes in handy sometimes. Poorhouse
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hi ben, I think that if you can concentrate on your job, sport exercises or anything else positive, you can achieve good results. If you find some kind of activity that protects you from the obsessions, you can run from OCD problems by developing this side of your personality. But its not a solution, it’s actually another problem. I week ago I managed to overcome my obsessions at work, in result of which I started working very hard, without taking even a minure break. However after work my obsessions appeared again and there was nothing I could do to stop them.
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I’m pretty darn good at counting things. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -gwwingo0…@cs.com (Gwwingo0220) wrote in message <news:20020417060601.27663.00003760@mb-fs.news.cs.com>… > Ben > OCD probably was behind my determination to complete college and pass the CPA > exam. > I believe I have personally accomplished some things that I would not otherwise > have done except for an obsessive need to do so. > Right now I am into physical/weight conditioning, and work out 3or 4 days per > week. I have lost 2 inches off my waist while adding 8 hard lbs of muscle! > I think you will find other testimonials like mine. > Hope this is encouraging; have a good day. > Jorge
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I was wondering if anyone has found positive aspects in their OCD? Has anyone used their OCD in a positive way, to develope a talent or direct their energy in some other positive way? Being newly diagnosed, I don’t have a full understanding of my disease, and was looking for someone else’s perspective. Ben ————————————————————————– ——————————————– Who is the Ben trapped behind the dark cloud?
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Ben OCD probably was behind my determination to complete college and pass the CPA exam. I believe I have personally accomplished some things that I would not otherwise have done except for an obsessive need to do so. Right now I am into physical/weight conditioning, and work out 3or 4 days per week. I have lost 2 inches off my waist while adding 8 hard lbs of muscle! I think you will find other testimonials like mine. Hope this is encouraging; have a good day. Jorge
