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Do you have an obsessive personality?

make sure that her mom reads, DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION. it's an excellent
read on the subject. the real issue with ADHD is the effect that it can have
on self-esteem. the sooner she develops coping skills, the better.

( as i typed this i thought about my 7 year olds homework, recapped my
workout and began contemplating a visit to the mercedes dealership
to checkout the new SL600 ) my life is like an out of control TV remote
controller
.

LOL

You've just described me and my Old Grump. I think that you just nailed our lives to a T.

I remember back in the day when I was at my lowest (when I first lost my girls this last time) my night terrors were out of control in that I began to have hallucinations during the day. I slept very little, hardly ate, started having panic attacks in my sleep... goodness. Looking back I don't know how I survived. I went to get some professional help and the doc perscribed a drug to help me sleep (can't recall the name but in hyuger doses it is given to schizophrenics to "quiet their minds") and also an anti-depressant/anti-anxiety med. As soon as the drugs took effect I felt like I was literally in slow motion. Was very disconcerting at first, like something from The Matrix.

I was like, "Is this how slowly EVERYONE moves?"

No thank you....

I prefer to race at the speed of light. :biggrin:
 
fuck i do and i hate it
 
I dunno... I think that we are just using different words to describe way might be the same feelings.

When I think obsessive I think alcoholic/drug addict (I know thaat you've had issues with both). I'm not like that. I mean, I had issues w/body image and eating disorders. First it was trying to be as small as humanly possible to be reflective of my lack of self esteem and punishing myself and a warped sense of trying to control the only thing I could control. Ironically enough the more ill I became with GI issues (nature did that. I didn't accidentally to that to myself) the more I wanted to be bigger and more muscular because I enjoyed the fact that it intimidated men - ESPECIALLY my exhusband.

Dunno... since I can just stop drinking or gambling and can certainly live without controlled substances I guess I don't characterize myself that way. :whatever:

All I know is that once I set a challenge before myself no matter how far-fetched or ridiculous it seems to others... matter of fact the more others laugh at me and put me down, say that it can't be done, the harder I work just to prove them wrong. I LOVE to make nay-sayers eat crow. :chomp::evil:

I can listen to the same song over and over and over again, literally for YEARS but I don't think that makes me obsessive. I just really dig that song. LOL

Dunno...

All I know is that when I decide that something is going to be a certain way there is nothing and I mean nothing that will keep me from making my words reality. I have always been that way since I was old enough to remember.

i believe you are a lil obsessive :insane:

according to psychoanalytic theory, it was probably OCD that saved the both of us. OCD sorta trumps other psychological maladies and gives a semblance of
order to an otherwise out of control life \ situation.

kathy is bipolar but her OCD has helped her to all but defeat her BP.
 
i believe you are a lil obsessive :insane:

according to psychoanalytic theory, it was probably OCD that saved the both of us. OCD sorta trumps other psychological maladies and gives a semblance of
order to an otherwise out of control life \ situation.

kathy is bipolar but her OCD has helped her to all but defeat her BP.

LOL See I always thought the whole OCD thing was attributed to those with tendencies to gamble, do drugs, drink and do things like that with the notion or feeling that "they can't stop" whereas me, I don't WANT to stop whatever it is that captures my attention for that moment... why should I?

And yes, it was seroquel.

Believe it or not, bout 6 mos to a year after I started sleeping w/Dale - I had no more night terrors. And I can't remember the last time I had trouble falling asleep at night. Now I still get up early (6ish or so regardless of when I go to sleep) but I am out the minute my head hits the pillow.

No drugs! This after 20+ years of SEVERE sleep problems. :)

Weaning off the seroquel and anti-depressant/anti-anxiety med was AWFUL as I felt for a good 2 weeks - month that I would have short circuits in my brain. It bordered on painfull, but certainly unsettling. Absolutely HATED IT and would never go back.

I've never had any sort of mood disorder thank goodness. LOL I don't think I could handle life the way I have if I DID have that problem. I mean, yes I have been severely depressed but that was not an organic issue. It had everything to do with circumstances of my life that I had very little control over. Talk about trying like a motherfucker to change or overcome those circumstances... those circumstances have gotten worse and yet, I am still prospering to a great extent and have finally made the decision to move on and be happy IN SPITE of them.
 
I have an obsession. Nearly every electronic device in my house has been hacked.
 
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