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WCDT Strips 3231 - 3235 (30th May to 3rd June 2016)
brasca:
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--- Quote from: themacnut on 01 Jun 2016, 09:31 ---Utlimately though, I don't think Hanners is one of those people who can really live with anyone. Her...eccentricities would make her all but impossible to live with, and only someone equally eccentric (as in germophobic and OCD the same way) would be an acceptable roommate for her.
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The only person I have seen in the strip who would be able to live with Hanners already lives with Marigold. Momo might not have OCD, but she doesn't make a mess nor does she have all the germs that go along with biologic processes. So any human probably wouldn't be able to make a living arrangement work with Hanners, but an AI conceivably could.
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So Bubbles it is!
While there are a lot of good arguments about whether Hannelore could handle cohabitation I think she's been steadily pushing herself to manage her OCD. This could be the next step for her if Brun lacks the same eccentricities that would make Marigold or some of the other people she knows ultimately incompatible roommates.
I suppose since this is a highly unusual situation it makes sense to go to a place where a lot of unusual things happen instead of back to the motel. Or maybe it was just more convenient.
Case:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 01 Jun 2016, 05:50 ---A more important question is: Could someone handle being Hannelore's room mate? We don't see it anymore, but remember that Hanners has been shown as being extremely germophobic and affected by severe OCD as well as anxiety disorders. The anxiety we've seen she takes various drugs to keep under control. But it's been shown as not unusual for her to go for days without sleep, be up deep cleaning her apartment in the middle of the night and absolutely obsessive about her living space. She would not be an easy person to live with. And that's if she didn't say something that creeped said room mate out. Things she's done before with Faye and Marten, describing her vivid imaginings of what it would be like to murder them in her cheerful tone... We've pretty much seen Hanner's happy and fluffy side of late, but that doesn't mean the rest of it isn't still there.
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"describing her vivid imaginings of what it would be like to murder them in her cheerful tone" - I think that one was intented to indicate "Violent Intrusive Thoughts". Those belong to the class of intrusive thoughts about causing deliberate or negligent harm to others. I've (thankfully) never experienced the worries about "suddenly discovering something in me that makes me deliberately harm others", but the worries about "negligently harming others" were a big part of my giving up my training for a PPL-C (Licence for gliding planes) - i.e. they were bad enough.
IMO, Intrusive thoughts around sexual themes, or "harm worries" are the worst for people with OCD, due to the attached stigma of the topics - people tend to be accepting about obsessions about spilt milk on the shiny glass table, not so much about worrying whether one secretly wants to fuck horses, or flay the neighbours.
With OCD, it's important to understand - for society at large, but most importantly for the sufferers themselves - that having those thoughts is about the best guarantee a human being can get of neverever actually acting on them; they are called "intrusive thoughts" precisely because they feel alien to the personality of the one experiencing them - that's 90% of the distress they cause.
Nonetheless, because of the stigma attached to sexuality and causing harm to others, those of us OCDers who experience such worries are in the gravest danger of socially isolating themselves - which can lead further down a very, very dangerous slope, that makes recovery ever harder and increases the likelihood of depression et. al.
In the end, the greatest damage my anxiety disorder wreaked was not the very, very considerable distress it caused me - but precisely this isolation.
About being a good roommate - Yeah, many headmeat meds tend to fuck with your sleeping schedule. That is, if I had had something like a sleeping schedule ever since turning 18 ... :-D
jheartney:
From what I can see, Hanners doesn't need a roommate. Neither does Brun, actually. What Brun needs is a place to crash till she gets her life back together. I'm thinking Brun would rather be in a closet sized place with no roommate than a palace which she has to share.
Morituri:
Re: intrusive thoughts.
As one of my aunts put it,
"Every so often the Voices tell me to kill someone. And then I tell them to fuck off, and go on about my day."
Kugai:
I think they've adopted another one :-D
It's going to be interesting to see how Brun interacts with the rest of the CoD crew. Emily's gonna be the one I'm looking forward to her meeting.
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