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Old Nov 12, 2008, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by cantstopcrying View Post
e sort, I understand you're viewing it as humor, but until you know what someone else is personally going through, saying "you should lighten up" is very harsh. Just as your opinion is that peg should lighten up, maybe you could consider being more empathetic. We are all here dealing with something and being brutal to each other doesn't help.
peg doesn't know what i'm going through either, and what's more does not list OCD among his/her concerns. I do. So it seems to me that i get to make a pretty mild joke about my own issue without being (in effect) called insensitive or (actually) non-empathetic.

and that's the end of it. i'm not going to argue this all day. I've had symptoms of OCD since I was a kid but it got a lot worse in the last 2-3 years. I'm kind of moderate. Only for a short time earlier this year was I really "crippled" i.e. really could not deal with my life, but for much longer than that I felt like a prisoner of myself.