Laughing with OCD

[Baymule]

Ain't we all a bunch of weirdos in our own way??

 

[Southern by choice]

I can tell you @Baymule - it is hard being the normal one on here.

I do love all you weirdos though!

 

[Baymule]

Haha, I was accused of being the "normal" one by my 8 year old grand daughter. I showed her an old picture of me, my brother, sister and parents, taken in the 60's. My sister had a huge bouffant hairdo, rat-teased and poofed up, her face looked like a baby bird peeking out of it's nest. My brother had a flat-top, with the sides up-swept and heavily greased in place by some kind of wax product that came in a tin. I was just a little kid with shoulder length hair and bangs. My grand daughter studied the picture and couldn't believe that was her Aunt Kathy! She observed, "You are the only one that looks normal."

 

[Devonviolet]

Hahahaha!!! Its is so funny, that y'all are talking about being normal. Not to long ago my DD called & told me, that my DGS told her my DH & I were the only "normal" ones in the family. Actually, that's not to far from the truth. We have some certifiable/officially diagnosed crazies in our family. No names or where they fit in the family tree, but one talked about boats docking in their basement, on the river that flows under their house. Another saw creatures dancing on their own head. Another (bipolar, on strong meds) cut off a finger, on a tablesaw & shot themself in the stomach, just to see what it felt like.

 

[Latestarter]

Pointing up ^ <GASP!> you're not joking, are you! Holy cow!

 

[Devonviolet]

No, @Latestarter. These family members are totally for real. And only the most extreme members on our family tree. Bipolar & OCD abounds in our family. The first two I mentioned above, are diagnosed schitzophrenics. And fortunately, for me, they aren't on my branch of the tree!!! And it appears the schitzophrenia didn't travel further on the tree.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

@Devonviolet I'm beginning to wonder if we're related! I've got a few of those hiding out in my family tree also. I keep apologizing to DH for the family that he married into, lol!

 

[Southern by choice]

Wow @Devonviolet how sad. I have dealt with quite a few Bi-Polar's... impossible! When they stay on their meds it's one thing but of course they never do.

I never went on any meds, even when I was having the mini-blackouts- it was a wake up call so to speak ... OCD is very managable if you do not have mental illness. There have been a few people I know that did have to go on meds and even with meds it is so sad... there again there is mental illness at the core for them. Sad lives with little joy.

When you have OCD and not just quirks ( most everybody has quirks) IF you learn to laugh at yourself and you take everything down to its core than you can manage it.

At one time I would not leave the house til all the laundry was done and all filing was done, vacuuming done, dishes done... generally not a big deal because these things were ALWAYS done. When you can get to the core of it you can overcome it. Mine core was "if I am killed in an accident while I am out, I don't want to leave things undone for those left behind. No one should have to sort through paperwork etc."

LOL Now I think oh well I'll be dead- I won't care!

Routine was another biggy... same routine every morning before work... if something interrupted that like dishwasher failed, washer broke, dryer broke then the routine was thrown off... I cannot really describe the feelings of that.

So now you see why I can laugh with OCD'ers and why I chose to deal with it and overcome. Not a good thing to take into marriage and have a family.

 

[Devonviolet]

@Devonviolet I'm beginning to wonder if we're related! I've got a few of those hiding out in my family tree also. I keep apologizing to DH for the family that he married into, lol!

LOL@frustratedearthmother. We may well be! What's that they say about "6 degrees of separation"?
The thing about our family tree is that the fruit is pretty much spread evenly around.