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Hannelore's OCD
HappyGrar:
--- Quote from: Astroasis on 15 Jan 2009, 21:43 ---My OCD is bad enough that I'm unable to hold down a job. Or do much of anything. My parents support me and I do a little bit of work on the internet.
It dismays me that conversations about OCD always tend to veer off into Ridiculous Land. People quoting that awful CDO thing and thinking they can relate to OCD because they're a little scatter-brained or worry sometimes.
The internet is full of people who like to say, "I think I have a little bit of OCD, because I can't stand wearing socks that don't match! Tee hee!" And I always want to smack them upside the head.
To someone with actual OCD... It can be compared to walking up to a quadriplegic and saying, "I think I'm a bit crippled too, because I can't reach the jar of peanut butter we keep on the highest shelf. Tee hee!"
Unfortunately, my disability doesn't require a wheelchair, so I can't run the stupidheads over with it. :( Woe is me.
And I'm aware that characters like Hannelore only further this phenomenon, by making OCD seem "fun" and "quirky" and "unique". But she's also a bit inspiring to people with real OCD, because she's living life and having an impact on others, socializing and having friends, in spite of her illness. So I guess it's a double-edged sword. There are plusses and minuses to these kinds of characters.
The world would be better off with fewer idiots, I think.
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Forgive me, but I noted no one "tee hee"ing anywhere.
At the risk of taking the whole thing FAR too seriously, did it ever occur to you that the people here (myself included) might have far more problems than they let on? And that a vacuous "tee hee" might not be the last word? I mean, I might go into how I also have Asperger's and that makes it really hard to relate to people, and to pull myself out of my thoughts and get on with life, but why the hell would I do that on a forum full of people I don't even know? Oh wait. I just did. Tee hee.
I'm really sorry if you've had to put up with airheads like that on a regular basis, but not everyone is one of them.
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jax85:
I like Hannelore, simply because she is, in a way, a "balanced" character. She has OCD but she is trying. People laugh at some of the things that happen because no one can be serious all of the time. The only way to survive a day sometimes is to laugh at at a situation. But the humor is never degrading and Jeph has made Hannelore into developed character who is trying to overcome her OCD. There are serious moments but no one is taking themselves too seriously. That being said, I agree with those who say that she's just a character and isn't supposed to be a course in psychology.
SayWhat:
--- Quote from: ladydraykona on 16 Jan 2009, 20:22 ---
--- Quote from: SayWhat on 10 Jan 2009, 06:48 ---Like the comic, if you were just looking at me you wouldn't have thought anything was going on, unless you knew me and noticed my knuckles were white and my lips were twitching, and that sort of thing happens to me all the time (which is why I try not to drive unless necessary).
Went to the doc about it, but all he did was toss some zoloft at me and tell me to 'try deep breathing', and that I was bipolar.
The pills didn't help very much, they sort of killed the wildly racing trains'o'thought, but I zoned out just as bad, and slept far too much, and was still just as anxious, but I couldn't focus the anxiety on anything like, say, getting gas, so I just felt horrible all the time. Nnngh.
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I HATE zoloft. I stopped taking it after 6 months because I decided I'd rather feel bad some of the time than feel nothing all the time.
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He said it would 'balance me out' and that after 6 weeks of taking it all the side effects would be gone, and that I'd feel so much more relaxed and happy.
What a load of BS. I felt so exhausted and well, depressed, it was just a "Why bother with anything...even eating..." sort of feeling. I still felt so...I'm not sure how to describe it. Imagine a constant worrying feeling, this vague, unidentifiable anxiety, but not being able to focus it on anything...That's how I deal with it. I focus it on something, like my writing ("Omfg this is so bed I should re-write it fifty times") or my bedroom ("If I clean and reorganize every thing in here, along with alphabetizing my books, there won't be any bugs in here and I can sleep safely").
I figure, if I do something productive with it, that's better than just freaking out all the time. I may be focusing on something totally idiotic (there are no bugs in my rooms, f'r instance) but it gives me something to do.
But yeah. Zoloft didn't help at all. I ended up going back to the office and just leaving the bottle of pills in his office with a note explaining that they weren't really helping and I'd appreciate if he could dispose of them properly. I'm not sure how you're meant to get rid of pills safely, I hear throwing them away or washing them down the sink can release the chemicals into the water, which might mess with other people. I figure he'd know what to do.
Mr. Skawronska:
--- Quote ---I hear throwing them away or washing them down the sink can release the chemicals into the water, which might mess with other people. I figure he'd know what to do.
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Depends upon the water treatment methodology in place.
Throwing them away wouldn't be so bad--incineration generally will denature the chemicals into other compounds that no longer have the properties of the original medication and fillers.
But yeah, bringiing them back to the prescriber, especially if you're making a point, is, in my opinion, appropriate.
And I relate to Hanners not so much about her OCD, but her adaptations. As someone else said, "We've all got issues."
It's just that Hanners' adaptation to those issues are both funny and endearing, and THAT's what makes her such a darling to me.
It's not that I want hot Hannelorz Hantai or what have you...I just like the character and see her as a Woobie in TV trope language, and it just activates all my protective and cuddly motivations...and, given the nature of the rest of my personality, anything that activates "nurture" on me CANNOT be a bad thing.
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SayWhat:
I guess I was making a point, but... I don't really know. I was rather unhappy that he just tossed some pills at me told me to try deep breathing and said "You're bipolar" all based on a 30 minute appointment... Especially since the pills didn't really help.
But yeah, I figured he'd know how to get rid of them safely.
I think it's sorta weird. I freak out if I get sticky stuff on my hands, like clay (watching me in my ceramics class was hilarious, every couple minutes or so I was wiping my hands clean), but I can make kisses with a guy and not wig out. Kissing is dirtier than clay, I think.
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