So I'm mental. Let's talk about it.

[quiet_riot]

It's one of the great truisms of life that when people ask "How are you?" they aren't actually interested in an honest answer so it takes some courage to come out with something like this.

Brings up a whole new debate, perhaps not for this thread, but I was always brought up to answer that question with a positive answer, even if it wasn't true. To that end, there's probably only a handful of people to whom I would honestly answer the question now.

 

[york away to this!]

What an incredibly wide subject. Great post damo and hats off all round... someone earlier said about "normality". I don't think there is any such thing. We're all a bit normal, just in different ways... whilst clearly I'm a bit bonkers, the beautiful Mrs This! has recently come clean (awfully crass saying, I know, though that's half the point..) that she has has demonstrable characteristics that match with some "OCD" definitions... as do most us if we're honest. Are you on the spectrum? Of course. There's no "normal"...

 

[Adidas Sharston]

Great analogy mate and very honest.

 

[Machiavelli]

Just a mood disorder. ;)

 

[kaz7]

The bit about staying at home where it's a familiar is me,i stay in my bubble where i can control everything,being forced out for a year with my shoulder has played merry hell with my mental health,i have to turn the key in the lock several times to make sure it works before i lock the door,then i think about will it unlock when i get home,mental health problems really suck

 

[Bill Walker]

Interesting Damocles, I feel sympathy for your condition mate.
My life is kind of opposite to a person with OCD, I never really know what im going to be doing in the next few weeks as my wife and I book last minute cruises and other types of Holidays, I could be in Japan or Hong Kong in November !
One thing that struck me reading your piece was that regular feelings of deep anxiety can lead to a dangerous spike in blood pressure in some people, might be an idea to check this if you can get hold of a BP machine.
My son went through anxiety problems as a teenager and the doctor told us about this, so we bought a machine, his BP went through the roof when he was anxious so until his anxiety condition eased as he got older he took a mild dose of beta blockers.

 

[citytilllidie]

Daft as a brush me. Always putting things in order, (especially in that cutlery drawer). Oh! And why can't they load a fucking dishwasher?

 

[Two Gun Bob]

The human brain and its overall complexity far superseces any rational of normal.Your all perfectly well albeit with slightly different nuances.Take a brain out of the comfort of its cranial cavity and view it on a plate.This mastercalss of organic matter can split the atom send probes to mars and achieve the most complexual of tasks.My slight nuance is I have to go to the moon daily otherwise it make me shake.I don't post as much on arrival as I now have a ranch to run but nevertheless it's something that has to be done.If we take the time to look around us really hard we all can see something of ourselves in a volatile diva or maybe a misanthrepepic recluss and occationally we may embrace the extreme the flagrant or the florid in our own charactrs. We all have propensity to dispay an an array of traits and behaviours from the high spirit of a borderline personality or the single minded intensity of an obsessive and in essense what we should all do is just reclaim thhese thoughts as rich additions to human variety.Are we not all unique entities on this journey of exploration.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

That was a really good post Bob.

 

[DrBlueBob]

The human brain and its overall complexity far superseces any rational of normal.Your all perfectly well albeit with slightly different nuances.Take a brain out of the comfort of its cranial cavity and view it on a plate.This mastercalss of organic matter can split the atom send probes to mars and achieve the most complexual of tasks.My slight nuance is I have to go to the moon daily otherwise it make me shake.I don't post as much on arrival as I now have a ranch to run but nevertheless it's something that has to be done.If we take the time to look around us really hard we all can see something of ourselves in a volatile diva or maybe a misanthrepepic recluss and occationally we may embrace the extreme the flagrant or the florid in our own charactrs. We all have propensity to dispay an an array of traits and behaviours from the high spirit of a borderline personality or the single minded intensity of an obsessive and in essense what we should all do is just reclaim thhese thoughts as rich additions to human variety.Are we not all unique entities on this journey of exploration.

That was a really good post Bob.

But the main thing is that your narcissistic, Walter Mitty delusions of grandeur symptoms are now completely under control. Well done you.