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Hi everyone, first post so please excuse any mistakes. My name is Lee and I was diagnosed 15 months ago and have been having CBT since with no medication. I...
leeesome
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Jul 10, 2002
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Hi Leesome! I wouldn't worry too much about your therapy ending. No doubt your threrapist feels, you've made so much goo progress, that it's time to let you...
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Spit_The_Dog25
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Jul 10, 2002
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Sorry Peeps! I joined a few days ago and have only just found out how to post to this group. Anyway I've seffered from OCD for a long time and was diagnosed a...
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Spit_The_Dog25
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Jul 10, 2002
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Hi my partner has severe OCD and has spent four months in an inpatient Theraputic Psychiatric Unit in the UK. This unit is specially for treatment resistant...
Dawn Talbot
loulou783
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Jul 10, 2002
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... others in the same boat as me. Thing that worries me most is that my severe ocd is very sparadic. I can duck and dive for a month or 2 then wham,...
leeesome
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Jul 10, 2002
10:26 pm
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Sparodic! Yep that's how good old OCD works. It likes to let you think all is ok then "WHAM" our whole being is taken up by the obsession. It makes it a tiny...
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beefy100
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Jul 12, 2002
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... think all is ok then "WHAM" our whole being is taken up by the obsession. ... trying to give us mysery. ... help? ... Oh yes I remember now! Sorry LOL Beef...
beefy100
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Jul 12, 2002
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Drinking on your meds isn't a good thing at all. In fact (depending what your meds are) you are putting yourself at risk. I too have a drink problem and I've...
beefy100
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Jul 12, 2002
3:21 am
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Hi Beef, "push the doc for some help" refers to your mention that your doc seems to think that pure "o's" don't respond well from your first post. Don't know...
leeesome
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Jul 12, 2002
11:47 pm
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No offence taken at all Lee. I forgot I posted that info earlier and then I remembered but I'd already replied to your post! Instead of me explaining it here,...
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beefy100
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Jul 13, 2002
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hi lee, well i had some of what u talking about blood and i can give u more details and how to deal with all your problems but later cuz i am so late now !!...
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mizo_lebanon
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Jul 14, 2002
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Hallo Dawn: I have read that your partner was in a inpatien therapeutic psychiatric Unit in the UK, I am living in Bolivia and I am going to Europe to be...
yolanda_z
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Jul 15, 2002
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yolanda_z <no_reply@...> wrote: Hi Yoland My partner was in the Springfield University Hospital Unit which is run by Dr Lynn Drummond this...
Dawn Talbot
loulou783
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Jul 15, 2002
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Beefy, my God, I've had most of the thoughts at one time or another that are described on the link you've shown. I can't believe it, the years I've lost...
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leeesome
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Jul 15, 2002
7:18 pm
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hello again all :) i am an "ocd" holder taking medication "paxil" as well. always as usually, i have an idea in my mind telling me "its like a thought or an...
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mizo_lebanon
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Jul 15, 2002
7:25 pm
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Hope your all doing well. Like many of you I suffer from OCD, have my good days and bad days. I am just posting here to make you all aware of the 2002 Annual ...
guy_forever_dreaming
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Jul 17, 2002
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It's amazing isn't it, when we look at someone elses experiences and think it's us their talking about, Thanks for looking. No I havn't sent my letter yet, but...
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beefy100
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Jul 19, 2002
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I'll try to keep this short. I have been taking 100mgs of Sertraline daily for the past 3 years, in the form of 2*50mgs tablets. I picled up my repeat meds at...
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beefy100
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Jul 19, 2002
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This group board seems to be dead! Am I the only one who comes here now? Even the owner of this group doen't bother turning up! Why don't we really get this...
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beefy100
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Jul 21, 2002
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k k <beefy100@...> wrote: Hi Keith I dont think the group is dead, just that OCD is a particularly hard illness to live with. There doesnt seem much...
Dawn Talbot
loulou783
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Jul 21, 2002
11:17 am
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I agree with you that their isn't much understanding of OCD in this country. They seem to have a better idea in the USA! I'm sorry to hear about your partner...
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beefy100
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Jul 21, 2002
10:39 pm
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... reasurance via the internet and telephone, and as I am having cbt, one of the aims is to stop such reasurrances for occuring and so as much as I would love...
leeesome
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Jul 22, 2002
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Hi All, I agree that finding out about OCD in the UK is so much hard work, when I was lookign for support last year I found it so difficult. Further to my last...
guy_forever_dreaming
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Jul 22, 2002
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I understand what you mean Lee when you say you are concerned you are using the board for reassurance. I suppose I'm going against what is taught in CBT, but...
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beefy100
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Jul 23, 2002
8:58 pm
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Keith, sorry it's taken so long to reply. Update is this. I've now finished my CBT and an on 3 month checks. Not at all convinced I have got as far as I can go...
leeesome
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Aug 7, 2002
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Hi Dawn! Many thanks indeed for your reply informing me about a treatment Unit in UK for OCD. I hoppe to go there some day ! I wish you a nice time,...
yolanda_z
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Aug 7, 2002
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Hi Keith & everyone! I must apologise, I have been neglecting this Group and Message Board for a while and feel really bad about it, SORRY! Truth is I think I...
saniwani
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Aug 8, 2002
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Hi Sani! I saw the programme last night too & thought it was really good - brought a lump to my throat to see others getting 'stuck' in the same way as I...
marg432001uk
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Aug 8, 2002
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I too watched the programme, but was dissapointed, there wasn't any mention of pure ocd people. I hope in the next episode, they cover this too. I too felt for...
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beefy100
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Aug 11, 2002
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Now it's my turn to apologize for not replying sooner! Sorry! I hope that you don't feel too exposed now you've ended your CBT. But as you know there comes a...
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beefy100
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