Day's to do are getting few...

[Wally]

and as there are only -> day's to Christmas I thought to start early.


Christmas Carols For The Psychiatrically Challenged


Schizophrenia --- Do You Hear What I Hear?

Multiple Personality Disorder --- We Three Queens Disoriented Are.

Dementia --- I Think I'll be Home for Christmas.

Narcissistic --- Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me.

Manic --- Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Buses and Trucks and trees and Fire Hydrants and......

Paranoid --- Santa Claus is Coming to Get me.

Borderline Personality Disorder --- Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire.

Personality Disorder --- You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'm Gonna Pout, Maybe I'll tell You Why.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ---Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells...


When you get to my age... you gotta think ahead.

[Chevvyf1]

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:EEK: Christmas is ages to go Wally

ps is OCD the refrain ? or just stuck on one lyric line ?

[peak4]

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:EEK: Christmas is ages to go Wally

ps is OCD the refrain ? or just stuck on one lyric line ?

I thought I suffered from OCD myself, but it turned out to be CDO;
It's very similar, but has all the letters arranged in the correct order.

[Chevvyf1]

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I thought I suffered from OCD myself, but it turned out to be CDO;
It's very similar, but has all the letters arranged in the correct order.

Bill, I wondered what I suffered, there was no name for it NOW I KNOW I'm CDO

[KeithL]

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Enough of all this psychobabble! I'm just CHALLENGED!

[peak4]

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[PeterBirder]

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I remember many years ago, when sitting with my very ill Mother in a cubicle in A&E hearing the duty doctor on the other side of the curtain helping a student Nurse revise for her next exam.

Doctor. "OK what's DNA stand for.

Nurse. " Ah I know this one it's err, um, err, no don't tell me, it's err, umm....."

Doctor. " You'll never get it, it's National Dyslexic Association".

[Grumpy Hec]

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Love the OCD. Brilliant

Hec

[Harold Gough]

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Bill, I wondered what I suffered, there was no name for it NOW I KNOW I'm CDO

I'm COD, Crabby Old Duffer.

Harold

[Wally]

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I have to say that I'm most fortunate in that I don't suffer from any of the above.

BTW, has anyone else completed their Xmas shopping?

[wellyboot]

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For a little perspective, I have suffered with OCD, and various other mental health issues for over 30 years and at the moment it is so severe that together with my other health issues life is a real struggle.
I have fought it for all that time with very little help from the NHS, but sometimes you find yourself too exhausted to keep fighting, not only the illness, for that is what it is, but also the prejudices surrounding it.

[Chevvyf1]

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For a little perspective, I have suffered with OCD, and various other mental health issues for over 30 years and at the moment it is so severe that together with my other health issues life is a real struggle.
I have fought it for all that time with very little help from the NHS, but sometimes you find yourself too exhausted to keep fighting, not only the illness, for that is what it is, but also the prejudices surrounding it.

I too suffer on the Autistic Spectrum - Aspergers ! Which is why I now support many families OCD has always been part of my life ; order ; segmenting ; labelling ; tidyness to an extreme ! Let alone how very useful it has been to me in designing Computer Systems for Data Mining in many professions - Financial Investments ; Horse Racing odds ; Accountancy systems ; Debt Collection ; Recovery & Repossesion ; Admiralty ; Probate ; Wills Drafting ; Undefended Divorce ; Mortgage Applications & Processing (latter linked back to the back office systems of Building Societies and Banks all around the world and Financial Investments data mining systems ... ALL HAVE TO FOLLOW Statutory Instruments and complete various processes before moving on ... to the next stage

But it is also part of me, hence why I "got on so well with Computers, and particularly code and writing programmes and finding bugs and loops too "

Accounting Systems were, to me wonderful Jigsaw puzzles, where a piece was missing and I spent many weeks, often 3 days and nights with a big firms computer system, finding the bug/loops etc.,

No ! I am not statemented ! But I was stonkingly brilliant ! and few could understand "how I did it" of which I am now very proud

also knowing the chap at Mercedes Race Team (who was on one of my courses at the OU Degree courses) he is same as me, but profound ! However, he is the Parts Manager and when a Team has a problem at any race track in the world, with a part, he knows EXACTLY where a new part can be made, to perfection and shipped overnight for the race or where that part is in the stores He is BRILLIANT

Also I met, on same OU Degree Course a Bookie. The Tutor thought he "worked as admin in a bookies shop " NO he was an on course Bookie - "Tic Tac Man" - calculating, in mental arithmetic, more complex odds that Rain Man and the knowing the New York Phone Books ! and syndicating those odds on favourites apart from which his knowledge of each horse, its breeding sire and mare and dam sire is AWESOME

You may wonder what we all have in common ? and what Course we were on ? Mathematics ! We were all told at school we "were crap at mathematics" ...

BUT we were and still are BRILLIANT with code and each with a photographic memory !

DO NOT PLAY CARDS with any one of us you shall lose

Mental Health Issues can be a burden or a bonus ! The Burden I have to live with and manage, the empathy it has given me working with young children and families in great difficulty is such a profound bonus it is unbelievable ! Same for my two now, great Mathematics course friends ! It was the Teachers method of Teaching we all discovered - we are each actually brilliant at various elements of Mathematics.

Our Education system FAILS a great many and gives them "Labels" because of Teacher/Tutor incompetence !

For more information read "John Holt" ; "How children fail" book

and learn about the "Edge" by Guy Claxton et al at Winchester University

http://www.winchester.ac.uk/aboutus/lifelonglearning/CentreforRealWorldLearning/Documents/Claxton%20%282006%29%20Thinking%20at%20the%20edge%20%28Cambridge%20Journal%20of%20Education%29.pdf

and

http://www.edge.co.uk/media/16982/bodies_of_knowledge.pdf

ALL Children and Adults can "develop to economic Independence" - maybe some far less than most ... of the Autistic Spectrum Conditions

OCD can be a big benefit ! Feel the Fear and Grab the Future anyway, anyhow! Turn a Negative into a positive.

[Ralph Harwood]

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I too suffer on the Autistic Spectrum - Aspergers !

Hi there Chevvy!

I wondered why we get on so well! Both my Brother and his wife work with autistic and special needs children, and my wife has for many years worked with children on the Autistic spectrum - from mild Aspergers to severe Autism. They ALL tell me I've got Aspergers (I've never been statemented either) - I just thought I was ME!

Unfortunately I haven't got a photographic memory - except for some reason for places and journeys - If I have been somewhere before I can always seem to remember it and place it - and if I have driven a journey once I don't need directions to get home!

Cheers,

Ralph.

[Chevvyf1]

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Hi Ralph, SNAP !

It is a small, small world and, as I get older it gets smaller in so many ways

We all are on the Autistic Spectrum continuum - to be "Statemented" one has to be "Profoundly Autistic in 6 areas" ... now with Govt. Cut backs, it is more likely we shall get back to the percentage per population of the 1970's (or thereabouts) statemented.

I found so many children we cared for had "elements" and going for training on AS gave me lots "more tools in the box" to help those children. As I progressed through the "training ladder" I started to question my own life and how I am and how I do things (it was the Reflective Practice element which your wife and brother will have completed )

Most interesting was being involved in "Reactive Attachment Disorder" and realising how many "AS" suspects were, in fact reacting to Trauma in their lives and then that moves into the almost, statutory argument of "is it Nature/Genetics or Nurture/Environment ?"

My Father was RAF and extremely "precise" and suspect !

I enjoyed days with Ros Blackburn - learning from her profound Autism and recommend any to enjoy some time at one of her presentations (she is often about to groups of Carers ; Parents etc)

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090531/local/the-autistic-lecturer.259128

Her Parents "were my lifeline" she says ! and I would agree !

Happy Nightshift !

[wellyboot]

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How wonderful Chevvy that you have been able to turn your OCD into a positive and how very humbling for me.
I see your OCD is to do with ordering, but as you have OCD you will know that it takes many forms, whereas others less familiar with the illness may not know that.
Mine is to do with germs, and contamination which I find impossible to turn into a positive, but then, unfortunately, I am pretty useless at everything, and brilliant at nothing which is probably the reason! It is also connected to the fact I have Cerebral Lupus, or as it has been renamed in the last few years "Neuropsychiatric Lupus". Says it all really.
Anyway having laid myself bare to people I hardly know, and feeling far worse for doing so, I think it's time for me to ride into the sunset.