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Michael Clyde · 08-05-2007, 07:01 PM

I think everybody has some degree of what we label a "mental disorder," and this degree fluxuates to different magnitudes over time. I know several people who visited psychologists and psychiatrists, and most of the time they were nothing more than an ear or a drug dealer. The exception that I have seen in my small world was prescribing drugs to inhibit violence in a couple of distant and not so distant relatives. The drug did not cure, as it did control the violence.

In my personal experience, I have had mild OCD and anxiety on two separate stints in life. In my early twenties, I would check the stove 10 or so times after cooking dinner to make sure it was turned off, or make sure my door was locked in the evening before bed several times. This behavior subsided after finding my future wife, and the behavior never returned. In my early teens, I used to have huge fears that somebody was going to break in my house and do horrible things. Every little sound would pump fear in me and I would lie awake for hours at night. One night, I just felt totally fed up with these feelings that I would rather let "it" happen and die than to jump out of bed with fear. By forcing myself to stay put end endure the fear one night without my usual reactions, I virtually cured myself overnight. These days, my wife gets mad at me when she hears something at night and I don't get up to investigate. I have absolutely no worries concerning intruders anymore.

Basically, some sort of personal change helped me. I've seen some change in other people that helped them. Everybody is different, and I believe there is something for you. I hope that I could provide some value, other than you are not alone in dealing with personal idiosyncrasy. Good luck with your development.

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Michael Clyde Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 20	I think everybody has some degree of what we label a "mental disorder," and this degree fluxuates to different magnitudes over time. I know several people who visited psychologists and psychiatrists, and most of the time they were nothing more than an ear or a drug dealer. The exception that I have seen in my small world was prescribing drugs to inhibit violence in a couple of distant and not so distant relatives. The drug did not cure, as it did control the violence. In my personal experience, I have had mild OCD and anxiety on two separate stints in life. In my early twenties, I would check the stove 10 or so times after cooking dinner to make sure it was turned off, or make sure my door was locked in the evening before bed several times. This behavior subsided after finding my future wife, and the behavior never returned. In my early teens, I used to have huge fears that somebody was going to break in my house and do horrible things. Every little sound would pump fear in me and I would lie awake for hours at night. One night, I just felt totally fed up with these feelings that I would rather let "it" happen and die than to jump out of bed with fear. By forcing myself to stay put end endure the fear one night without my usual reactions, I virtually cured myself overnight. These days, my wife gets mad at me when she hears something at night and I don't get up to investigate. I have absolutely no worries concerning intruders anymore. Basically, some sort of personal change helped me. I've seen some change in other people that helped them. Everybody is different, and I believe there is something for you. I hope that I could provide some value, other than you are not alone in dealing with personal idiosyncrasy. Good luck with your development.