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The OCD Soapbox
Darcy:
--- Quote from: JoeMoron2000 on 09 Mar 2008, 20:21 ---Back when I used to play Yugioh, I used to play with those little duel mat things, and I always used to try and get the cards to line up perfectly with the outlines :lol:
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Anything like that bugs the hell out of me. I can NEVER make it perfect, no matter how much patience I have.
Bowie:
Yeah, whenever I play any game where cards are put on the table, like poker or go fish, they have to be in perfect piles all the time. Hard to do on carpet.
I never did understand Yugioh. They kept releasing the 'ultimate card,' and then a month later there would be a new 'ultimate' card and the old 'ultimate' card wouldn't be special anymore.
JoeMoron2000:
:lol: It was always a weird game. I just love my deck because it has THE best card in it I could possibly want.
Near Lurker:
Might want to point out that I have been diagnosed with OCD.
So...yeah. Still not too keen on the whole "psychiatry" thing.
Amaroq:
Good psychiatry is enlisting somebody else to help you with something that you're struggling with.
It doesn't have to be all confrontational and negative, and you're under no obligation to see somebody a second time if you don't feel a connection or rapport with them.
My first therapist took a swing and a miss: I told her I'd just had a heart attack, was on a bunch of new meds, and was feeling depressed, which is not an uncommon post-cardiac-event experience.
"Great, so... tell me about your childhood. Were your parents home a lot? ..."
I'm kinda looking at her like .. "You have got to be kidding me. This isn't childhood trauma, I promise."
I didn't have to go back; I didn't go back.
My second therapist explained it as "Look, you're paying me to help you with whatever it is that you tell me is 'a problem' for you."
Incidentally, he was a psychiatrist with an MD as well as his PhD, not an LMFT. The depression, unsurprisingly, turned out to be a side-effect reaction to one of the cardiac drugs I was on, combined with the sudden face-to-face with mortality and some other things going on in my personal life at the time. Getting off the drug, and dealing with the mortality question got me to a point where I could be productive about the other issues instead of depressed about them.
So, not too related to OCD, but it was a neat example of bad therapy, good therapy, and the fact that the patient is in control, which too often is forgotten in our modern mental image of psychiatry.
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