tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36519495377812199172012-02-16T17:41:33.486-08:00People with OCD do repetitive things, you seen it in the movies and on TV. The repetative things are compulsive, this is the C in OCD. The O is for obsessive, in clinical terms this means an intrusive thought that disturbs and raises your anxiety level, the thought that besieges you, from Greek 'O-besiege-ion' = obsession. People with pure-O-type OCD have Obsessions like all OCD people, but their Compulsions are only mental, repetitive thoughts, looping over and over. That's what I do.by Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04933816952665835570noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651949537781219917.post-88866526024265425992008-03-23T16:41:00.000-07:002009-10-05T07:39:52.284-07:00ok, so let me start with a disclaimer, I don't really believe in emotional states. I think the concept of separate emotional stages or states is a product of the process of description [de/script/ion], labels must describe a thing, things must be discrete, thus descriptions necessarily 'shatter' what can be continuous, complex, synergistic, capricious processes into chains of abstract fixed units.<br /><br /><br />awww. interupted thought.<br />-- note -- the problem of being a compulsive ruminant is that when the anxiety level drops you often can't continue the thought...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3651949537781219917-8886652602426542599?l=compulsiverumination.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>by Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04933816952665835570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651949537781219917.post-73861220379082753482008-03-14T08:03:00.000-07:002009-10-05T06:35:45.607-07:00do more people die falling down stairs than using elevators. I mean proportionally, which is statistically safer?<br /><br />I find elevators, or lifts as they used to be called, pretty scarey sometimes, I mean it takes a lot of effort to control my OCD spikes in a lift.<br /><br />Maybe it's just that dying in a lift accident is more vivid, and the 'Obsessive' part of OCD likes that, gets it juiced up.<br /><br />(p.s. for those who don't know Obsession in OCD is not the repetitive actions, they're compulsions, Obsessions are disturbing intrusive thoughts that raise the anxiety level so high the sufferer performs Compulsions in the belief that the compulsions help. Obsessions of these kind come from the greek meaning similar to 'O-Besiege-Ans' to be besieged by disturbing thoughts.)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3651949537781219917-7386122037908275348?l=compulsiverumination.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>by Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04933816952665835570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651949537781219917.post-50981455023655975922008-02-11T09:37:00.000-08:002009-10-05T07:14:19.659-07:00What to do when you have been diagnosed as a compulsive ruminant?<br /><br />Maybe you are thinking about something important or interesting, maybe you are thinking about something to lower your anxiety level, maybe your thinking helps you, maybe it just means you are avoiding the practical problems in your life. This is the dilemma of the diagnosed with pure-o type Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Presented here are the accounts of some ruminations, on various subjects from global social and environmental chaos, to the pure abstract relativity of the lambda calculus. One day you'll believe me when I say it's all connected, until then I'll just keep thinking about how to explain it.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3651949537781219917-5098145502365597592?l=compulsiverumination.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>by Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04933816952665835570noreply@blogger.com0