Please post more often!
Dont worry. Q.E.D is just engaging in some junior moderating again.
There are several other message boards out there that are basically about this one. How is that for metadiscussions?. There is Fathom, for example (is that Opal’s board?). Someone else just recently asked for permission to link to his new one. There is a Doper dating board. And only God knows how many others are out there.
Their memberships are mostly Dopers or ex-Dopers, and their subject tends to gravitate around whatever is happening on here at the moment.
Quality varies a lot, of course. TPTB smile upon some and frown upon others, as with all things in life.
Okay lets take a deep breath. First of all, if I get complimented I take it in the same stride as anyone else that gets complimented here. Have I ever done anything to seem ungracious or like I’m basking in it? Everyone wants to be called clever. Thats why we ALL post our idiot jokes and puns here all the time. Accusing me of being different by revelling in attetion just sounds self conscious and jealous. Lets also not forget that I get called an ugly whore without any originality, a sock, or a troll just as often. Probably by the same people.
And the DocCathode thing I was more playing devil’s advocate. It just sounds like a catch-22 right? You have to have super clean dishes but that driving force leaves all your dishes dirty. I wasnt trying to be the bully I’ve been made out to be. I mean yeah it could have been less bitchy but it wasn’t.
I was more interested in airing my grievances with the self diagnosing and mis-diagnosing of mental illnesses. People just ended up attaching themselves or their BFF’s to my rants. I myself am about to go to the pharmacy to pick up my puppy uppers that I’m prescribed for the narcolepsy I don’t have. I think I was just bored at the time of diagnosis.
God speaking of clever, in the 3rd grade there was this guy named Hutch and I started calling him “Hutch’s butt itches” Do I feel bad about that? Not really I’m sure he’s over it.
It’s a board that posts about this place and makes fun of people and threads. It’s actually pretty entertaining, in a mocking sort of way.
Now then, question-Doc, do you have a mountain of unwashed dishes? Do you eventually clean them? Or just toss them?
Seriously, I think you need to switch to paper/plastic/styrofoam.
lobster, I think mostly you just need to be a bit more, uh, I don’t know, what’s the word-“diplomatic”? Help me out here, folks.
Sorry for the late reply, but I was out on my nightly kitten-killing spree.
The thing is, I can’t fuck myself twice, because once I fuck myself more than one time I have to continue fucking myself until I’ve done it 27.4 times exactly, or something horrible might happen, like my mom developing lupus or whatever, and then my whole day’s screwed (literally).
Do I really need to take advice on how to alter my personality for the pleasure of other posters? How about I just keep it in the appropriate forum?
I don’t get it. He won’t wash the dishes or have somebody else do it for him because they won’t be clean enough? How is that not preferable to leaving them in sink to fester and stink?
He’s kicking himself for neglecting them, but wears them like an albatross around his neck, as a public confession of his nonactions. The dishes are both waterlogged and Waterloo. They’ve become the tacky monument, the type everybody dislikes but don’t want to take the blame for removing.
That’s beautiful. <sniff>
I, for one, feel I’ve beaten this into the ground enough (or woud a better metaphor be that the dishwater is too dirty to continue? Must ponder this). I hope DocCathode gets new meds, new dishes and perks up soon. As for LM, I have printed out her portrait of me and it hangs on my wall (but not in a jar by the door).
What are you doing instead of doing the dishes? I didn’t read the other thread but I can’t figure out how the two relate.
(Incidently, my remedy suggestion is to get someone in to clean up your kitchen. Then you need to set a timer each time you cook or eat. When the timer goes off, wash those dishes from that meal.)
It has nothing to do with “altering your personality”. It’s simply advice for trying to express yourself in other forums. Take it as you will.
It used to be called “let’s you and him fight” posting in the Pit, and IIRC at one time it was enough to get a Warning or lockdown.
There seems to be an assumption that OCD is rational. One of the hallmarks of OCD is that the person knows the compulsions are irrational but can’t do much about it through willpower or whatever you want to call it. It’s pretty common for people with “cleaning” OCD to get stuck in a situation where they can’t clean and instead, functionally horde. Assuming that Doc has OCD, and I have no less reason to believe him than anything else anyone posts about themselves, the behavior he describes is fairly typical.
THANK YOU! You pretty much nailed it.
I’m not so sure. storyteller0910 isn’t over some OTHER guy being called “fat butt”.
What Exit?, I’m going to choose this example among many, not because I want to pick on you, in particular, but because it’s a great example.
Almost everyone in this thread who has commented on overdiagnosing has said, “Yeah, overdiagnosing is a problem. Well, not for me, because turns out I really do have [insert problem x here]. But for everyone else, yeah, overdiagnosing is a problem.”
Now, my bet is that every single person who proclaims that massive amounts of overdiagnosing is going on knows precisely jack shit about a) the current prevalence of true cases of a given disorder and b) the current prevalence of diagnoses of a particular disorder.
I invite everyone to shut the fuck up about how prevalent diagnoses are unless they have some actual data to that effect. I hear this so often, and it’s almost always from some numbnuts who wants to dismiss the idea that mental health problems could actually be going on for someone else, or who would rather see some child get his ass beaten instead of accepting that he might have a particular problem.
However, DocCathode says he’s under a doctor’s care for it. If he’s rational enough to tell his doc AND all of us about it, he’s rational enough to say, “Gimme better meds.”
“I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored.”
FWIW, I’ve thought the same thing as LM many a time. Everyone says they’re bipolar or depressed or whatever, many of whom just decided to say so one day. Not to knock anyone who truly struggles with a disease, but it gets a bit tiring to hear everyone who’s cranky occasionally claim PTSD. Shit, I have the inner monologue of Lewis Black, but I’m not about to claim in all seriousness that I have Tourette’s and severe depression. I’m just kind of a prick, but I keep it to myself for the most part. anything short of a visit to someone with letters after their name is an insult to people who actually are suffering.
Maybe, but from what I’ve seen from Doc_Cathode, he does indeed have OCD. Like Shoshana said, that’s the really frustrating part-you KNOW it’s irrational, but you can’t stop it.
However, I do think, for the sake of his health, he should switch to disposable dinnerware.
You’ve seen him wash dishes? Or see him not wash dishes? Seen his prescription bottle?