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wendybpool
Member

No problem. I also understand where you're coming from.

Sun Oct 30 2011 15:47:16 #
Truddles
Member

- they update or upgrade a computer programme and it corrupts the existing programme

Fri Nov 4 2011 22:09:41 #
Truddles
Member

BTW It's just taken me more than four hours to sort my antivirus programme out following an update (and not because I'm thick - it just wouldn't let me initially). And I had to get my computer guy to repair the computer last year following a Windows update
As big a waste of time as the OCD is

Sat Nov 5 2011 8:44:53 #
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Hi Wendybpool,

I just skimmed through this thread, and the post that jumped out at me was yours. I just wanted to say a couple of things about your post.

(1) It sounds like you have a lot of challenges to deal with in your life. I really admire you for having the strength to deal with all of your challenges, and I hope you realise what a strong and good person you are to shoulder all of the responsibilities that you have.

(2) I hope that you continue to take your children to the supermarket and everywhere else that you or they need or want to go every day. It's heartbreaking to hear that you get abuse from other shoppers on the street or in the supermarket. If your children are autistic, they still have the same rights as everybody else on the planet to go shopping, go to school, to go anywhere they might like to go. If other people around you are abusive, that's a demonstration of their intolerance, stupidity, and ignorance. THEY are the villains here. You sound like a hero.

(3) I hope that you and your children have a great weekend. And I hope you take them to the supermarket, the park (if it's not raining!!!), or anywhere else that you need or want to go this weekend.

(4) You're my new role model!

Take care,

OCD Londoner.

Sat Nov 5 2011 9:33:53 #
wendybpool
Member

Thank you very much.

Sat Nov 5 2011 21:36:37 #
Tess
Member

I was almost beside myself with fury in Asda today. Didn't help that I had just come from Morrisons where small boys were whizzing round the aisles on scooters and nearly had me on my back.
In Asda as I passed the reductions section an assistant with a mark down gun was lowering the prices on the already reduced price yellow tickets. Being a veggie I went to pick up a vegetarian pizza, saw a man looking at it, asked him if he wanted it and he nodded and put it in his trolley. Walking round about half an hour later I saw him standing in a queue with lots of others all with trolleys stacked high with items bearing yellow labels and handing them to the assistant to mark them down to a few pence. Not only had he grabbed the pizza I wanted but had walked it round the store for half an hour and taken it back to get another price reduction. I was so angry I told him what I thought of him, his reply was I'm only doing what everyone else does!

Sun Nov 6 2011 18:53:38 #
Truddles
Member

I freaked out in the supermarket today, I was walking around doing my shopping when the overhead pipes started dripping large drops of water on me. When I complained I was told that they were aware and that they'd called the engineer in. - Have they not heard of health and safety? They should have cordoned off the area and placed hazard notices around it. Aside from it dripping on me it could have dripped on the face of a baby or someone could have slipped on the puddles that were fast forming.
I now feel thoroughly contaminated

Mon Nov 7 2011 17:24:57 #
Truddles
Member

- People fail to keep their promises.
- People are in a position of trust and they abuse that trust.

Sat Dec 3 2011 9:54:56 #
Wombat140
Member

NHS been fooling around with you again, Trudy? Sorry to hear it.
Well done with the jacket at the meeting and all, by the way - I keep forgetting to say!

Sun Dec 4 2011 18:54:35 #
Truddles
Member

Hi Wombat,

Sorry missed your post - well what do you think? Of course they're still playing me up, I think that it's become a habit with them. But now have an excellent therapist.

- When I see people write 12am and 12pm there are no such times it's either 12 midnight or 12 noon.

Thu Dec 29 2011 12:31:21 #
playthoseblues
Member

I try to do a Biology paper and I ear myself out and panic

Thu Dec 29 2011 13:01:41 #
BT
Member

I agree, Trudy, there are no such times as 12.00 A.M. and 12.00 P.M. But, it worries me that it really annoys you. It also makes me obsess more, as I worry that I am making similar mistakes that people are upset with me over! None of us is perfect. Some people write the acronym for obsessive-compulsive disorder as O.C.D. Same with A.M./P.M. Full stops are correct, but does it really matter.

It used to bother me when people sent me e-mails writing 'my Dad' (for example) because when I reply to them I feel disrespectful for writing 'your dad' (lower case 'd' being correct in both).

I always know when a relative shares my obsessionality when they go to the extreme of writing their 'phone number and adding they have recovered from from 'flu. I was tempted to reply to one person that they had omitted an apostrophe after the 'u'!

I have improved since listening to Stephen Fry's views on such things. As he has a far greater mind than mine and such a vast knowledge of language, his opinion that we shouldn’t fret over such matters has helped. I also accept that the clock by my bed reads 12.00 A.M. around the time I go to sleep. I lose sleep over so many things, but I won't be adding that to the list!

Thank you for your message on another thread. I do so hope that you are doing better than you were. Christmas is a tough time, I think it makes us more aware of our suffering/loneliness etc. Added to that, OCD tends to play up more. Same with the weekend coming, but we will get through it somehow.

Thu Dec 29 2011 14:08:29 #
BT
Member

P.S. I really like your avatar and Tess'. Trudy, is this you before the wretched OCD began to torment you? You look so happy.

Thu Dec 29 2011 14:14:04 #
Truddles
Member

Hi BT,

Don't worry I don't obsess or lose sleep over it, I suppose it wasn't entirely the most appropriate thread to put it on, but didn't want to start another.
The Stephen Fry series was excellent wasn't it?

Thanks, how are you today? I can barely move as my back and hips are so painful and because of my OCD I can't even rest on the bed during the day

The photo is of me as a youngster on the beach, it was before my OCD started. We spent most summers on the beach seemingly without a care in the world. Oh for those happy days

Thu Dec 29 2011 15:04:28 #
Tess
Member

BT, Stephen Fry does not have a far greater mind than you, he just has the advantage of celebrity status and a team of researchers behind him. I bet there are literally hundreds of things you know that he doesn't. We all have one brain and 24 hours in a day to put it to use. I remember Rod Lawrence, a local wildlife expert saying to me once (I used to go on his field trips) if you want to be an expert choose something which no one else knows much about or something which has limits - such as damselflies because there are only 28 known species so you can manage to learn them all!
Like Trudy the photo in my avatar was before OCD invaded my life.

Thu Dec 29 2011 17:08:39 #