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Old Apr 25, 2015, 06:07 PM
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My sister is really into them and keeps them going in her house most of the time she's home. I have asthma that reacts to stronger smells so I hadn't explored much. But then as this episode developed I realized that I kept going in the bathroom to wash my hands with this Target pink grapefruit soap and then smelling my hands. So I bought dish soap in the same smell. But I kept wanting to smell it all the time. I even looked for laundry detergent with the smell but all I found was super expensive. So I gave up and cashed out my online earnings and got a diffuser and pink grapefruit oil and also pink grapefruit bodywash (yes, my house smells like grapefruit which I can't even eat with the valium and I don't care). Last night was the first time I used it as well as the first time with the bodywash and it may have been a coincidence but I relaxed a little more in the time it was on, I fell asleep faster and with less valium and I slept more soundly.

Just curious if anyone else has had a response to these? I'm still a little skeptical of the whole thing beyond I know it smells good but it did seem to help. And craving that smell is better than craving cigarettes which I did in a prior episode which was pretty weird since I have never smoked a single puff of a cigarette in my life.
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