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Dump your OCD in my skip.

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Started 1 year ago by Soxon
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Soxon
Key Master

Feel free to dump your OCD in my skip and then we'll take it to the rubbish tip and have a celebration.

For starters I'm dumping my need to check everything three times

Mon Mar 21 2011 14:40:55 #
nettlenoo
Member

oh id love to do that throw it out and start a fresh for spring like spring cleaning my mind

Mon Mar 21 2011 15:14:04 #
nettlenoo
Member

ill spring clean my mind today
and throw old ocd away
its lingered here far too long
throw it out now we need to be strong.

short little dittie to that effect lol

Mon Mar 21 2011 15:17:20 #
jo
Member

i'll dump my ocd in your skip and as part of the celebration perhaps we could include a three course meal with everything i love to eat and could with my ocd residing in the dump

Mon Mar 21 2011 15:58:27 #
Marie
Member

Good idea !!!

Mon Mar 21 2011 17:44:01 #
blueboy
Member

i am dumping my need to check doors until it feels right and the ryme i need to remember connecting to that.

Mon Mar 21 2011 18:53:19 #
Truddles
Member

I think that I'll initially dump my hand washing and the problems that I have doing the laundry (that will then free up hours to join in the celebrations )

Thu Mar 24 2011 22:15:26 #
Ella
Member

I'm dumping my intrusive thoughts! Yaayy!

Sat Mar 26 2011 21:16:34 #
jen67
Member

LOL
I remember yrs ago a so called therapist giving advice to my son to dump his ocd! The thing was we were going to go on holiday to Cornwall, and so we agreed that we would dump ocd in the sea at Lands End!
Trouble is...........and was...............ocd was a good swimmer....
Found his way back.
Nice try though!

Sun Apr 10 2011 3:57:09 #
Tess
Member

Don't leave it in Cornwall, send it up to Scotland!

Sun Apr 10 2011 9:36:01 #
Ratwomble
Member

We've got plenty here, thanks.

Drop it in the ocean halfway between here and the USA.

Sun Apr 10 2011 16:42:10 #
Truddles
Member

No point dumping it in the ocean halfway between here and the USA as the currents will only bring it back to these shores Try dumping it in the Pacific instead

Sun Apr 10 2011 21:24:37 #
Tess
Member

What? - and risk it coming back radioactive. No put it in a space capsule and send it off to Mars.

Mon Apr 11 2011 9:28:26 #
Maxthedog
Member

Why fly it to mars when you can incinerate it in the sun? its got no chance then!

Fri Apr 15 2011 10:24:43 #
Tiredracoon
Member

I'm gonna dump my obsession of doing things 8 times times times times times times times times

JK lol

Sun Apr 24 2011 5:41:04 #
Truddles
Member

I've tried dumping my compulsions in the skip and that hasn't worked so maybe I should dump me in the skip instead

Tue Apr 26 2011 15:51:57 #
Ratwomble
Member

I have grabbed Truddles' compulsions and beat them unconscious on the side of the skip. I then put them in a shoebox. Put the shoebox in a bigger box and duck taped it shut. I put the bigger box in a tea chest and nailed it shut. I got my sister, who used to work as a mechanic to weld a metal box around the tea chest. Six of us manhandled the metal box into the skip and welded it to the floor. My friend Giles came round with one of his lorryloads of cement which we poured over it and allowed to set. On top of it we placed a plate of haggis, neeps and tatties (because nothing can walk past a plate of haggis neeps and tatties).

If they get put of there they'll be weaker.

Tue Apr 26 2011 20:51:39 #
Tess
Member

Not if they're first to the haggis.

Wed Apr 27 2011 8:31:21 #
Truddles
Member

Too late - I was hungry last night and nipped in and pinched the haggis, neeps and tatties. Delicious

Wed Apr 27 2011 10:48:26 #
Soxon
Key Master

The man that came to take the skip away and replace it with a new one wasn't happy to find someone had filled his skip with cement I grovelled and told him I'd no idea as to how it got there, but he still charged me all the same for the cost of a brand new skip

So who's going to be first to dump their OCD in the new skip?

Wed Apr 27 2011 15:54:53 #
Soxon
Key Master

I went to all the trouble to purchase a brand new skip after someone (no names mentioned ) filled the first one with cement but I see that the new one is still empty

Does it mean that everyone has already dumped their OCD?

Tue May 3 2011 14:54:01 #
Tess
Member

Do you think you should line it out with a bright green towel?

Tue May 3 2011 17:26:20 #
Truddles
Member

But is it contaminated?
Good job the skip is empty as I'm dumping my contamination OCD and there's plenty of it - it's taken six wheelbarrow loads so far and I've still not dumped it all

Tue May 3 2011 22:16:21 #
Soxon
Key Master

Do you think you should line it out with a bright green towel?

Then what am I supposed to wear to conceal my modesty if I line the skip with my towel?

Thu May 5 2011 16:39:35 #
Tess
Member

Seeing as it's the closed season and the males are on the prowl you could change into your bright red jacket and white jodpurs with kinky knee length boots and and carry a whip to keep them at bay.

Fri May 6 2011 9:20:04 #
Soxon
Key Master

As you can see I'm wearing the suggested bright red jacket and white jodhpurs with kinky knee length boots. Well that's what I bought, but the jodhpurs got caught in the wash with a pair of blue socks
I didn't get a whip - too much effort to carry it

Anyone else want to dump their OCD in my skip?

Wed May 11 2011 8:33:00 #
aishah
Member

Hi Soxon,

You could always borrow my hand held rotating duster, believe me it's better than a whip!

Fri May 13 2011 21:12:22 #
aishah
Member

Getting back to the point, I have dumped all my cleaning materials in the skip, now it's fit to burst.

I've held on to my duster though in case Soxon needs it to enhance the outfit.

Fri May 13 2011 21:15:49 #
Tess
Member

Hi Bridget
I've dumped my cleaning materials too, problem is that now I no longer feel the compulsion to clean everthing I am having big problems motivating myself to do any cleaning, other than the bits that remain OCD requirements. I have absolutely no motivation to pick up a duster, in fact the thought of doing it has become almost abhorrent, but I am not a dirty person. Just wish I could work out a happy medium but OCD doesn't seem to cater for that.
Has anyone else experienced this and how do you deal with it?

Sat May 14 2011 8:34:07 #
aishah
Member

Hi Tess,

I know exactly where you're coming from. I have had trouble doing any sort of cleaning or tidying for a few weeks due to depression but since yesterday it is all coming back.

The problem I have is that when I'm resisting urges to clean excessively, I mentally plan it and seem to have no control over it, it is exhausting. I haven't found a happy medium yet either.

I have just started yet another round of CBT last week and it has been suggested that I maintain a certain level of tidyness/ cleanliness and keep it the same all the time in the hope that I don't go into a mad cleaning frenzy, which is what usually happens when I have supressed the urges to clean for a couple of weeks or so.

Sat May 14 2011 14:34:01 #

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