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Old Nov 09, 2014, 12:00 PM
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Sounds like you are in for a nice shower soon though...

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Old Nov 09, 2014, 12:17 PM
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Sounds like you are in for a nice shower soon though...
Yes thanks. I cannot wait! Freedom!
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Old Nov 09, 2014, 12:28 PM
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Because I am alone all the time and don't have a job. I stopped caring. I haven't washed my hair for 2 months… it is too much effort when you can barely get out of bed..
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Old Nov 09, 2014, 12:37 PM
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Because I am alone all the time and don't have a job. I stopped caring. I haven't washed my hair for 2 months… it is too much effort when you can barely get out of bed..
Sorry for this spontaneous comment, but did you get your username from a Temple of the Dog song?
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Old Nov 09, 2014, 12:55 PM
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I don't like to take a shower in my family home because every facility is broken and dirty there. The worst problem is that there is even no warm water directly flowing out of the faucet. If you want a warm bath you need to cook water in the kitchen then move it to the bath room. I don't really want to do that. That's dangerous because the too hot water may scald you if you accidently overthrow it. I had that traumatic experience. So I don't take a shower often in non-summer seasons because the cold shower would freeze my body and make me quiver for hours after shower.
When I lived in the school dorm and rented a house, taking a warm shower every day was a natural thing and never troubled me much. But taking a shower in the family home often frustrates me, especially on cold days. In non-summer seasons I always check the air temperature before a shower to assure the air temperature is not too low for a cold shower. That's one of the reasons why I often feel especially depessed when the cool weather sets in following the summer.
I often crave a public bath room with warm shower. But according to my investigations, only some public universities and research institutes or some beaches have public shower rooms. And my family home is not near any of them.
I really should have not come back to the home. I originally planned not to come back to the broken home after graduation, but eventually due to not being able to find any acceptable job offer outside hometown, I came back. My hometown is in the most high-end city in my country so that I found it of high economical pressure for me to rent a house here unless I have an unusual high salary. Thus I succumbed to the desire of renting a functional house and live in this broken home. And unfortunately I have been mired here for long. I wish to leave it soon.
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Old Nov 09, 2014, 01:02 PM
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Because I am alone all the time and don't have a job. I stopped caring. I haven't washed my hair for 2 months… it is too much effort when you can barely get out of bed..
You are not alone! It's been a few weeks since I washed my hair.
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Old Nov 09, 2014, 01:10 PM
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Sorry for this spontaneous comment, but did you get your username from a Temple of the Dog song?

I did. I love Temple of the Dog.
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Old Nov 09, 2014, 01:26 PM
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I did. I love Temple of the Dog.
So do I
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 03:52 AM
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Just a thought. I sometimes feel like having MI/BP is like trying to reason with something that is so utterly destructive that trying to reason with it is only going to pull you further down into the quicksand. And I dont think we should let this illness rob us of all human dignity. Like keeping ourselves clean. I dont want to lose myself completely to this. I like perfume, fancy towels, hair-products, heels and make-up, damn it! And I dont want to lose that to my illness...
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 04:29 AM
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Oh wow, I am in the same boat. I hate it!
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 05:27 AM
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Bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath
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Old Nov 12, 2014, 04:28 AM
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Totally the case with me. I don't feel like bathing at all. I attribute it to depression, tiredness and low self-esteem.
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Old Dec 31, 2014, 01:49 AM
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Because I am having so much trouble getting myself to shower, I googled 'why do I hate to shower', and found this forum and at least I know I am not alone anymore. I am however still beating myself up and calling myself a loser because I 'plan' to take a shower, then just can't get myself to do it. The worst thing is I have NO CLUE why. I can't figure it out, it just keeps getting worse. I have depression, anxiety and PTSD. I can understand when the depression is bad, because I can hardly get myself out of bed, but other wise I cannot figure out the reason. It is so frustrating to me, today I cried because I failed to make myself shower again, it seems SO STUPID. I clean myself and don't smell and I can get myself to wash my hair every few days, but the whole shower thing is becoming a bigger issue every day and I don't know what to do. Today I started to panic while driving in the car just thinking about getting into the shower. I have read a lot of the thread on this subject but not everything (it's alot to read!). Does anyone please have any ideas of how I can make myself get in the shower? I don't mind once I'm in there, but getting in there is the problem. I feel like if someone was in the bathroom with me I could do it, but I have no clue as to why that feels like it would help, and since I'm single the only one that could do that would be my 21 year old daughter, and I'm not quite sure she would understand why, I mean I don't, how could I explain it to her? I'm getting so anxious about it now you can probably tell by my ramblings! Argh! I don't know what to do, I feel scared, this is crazy!!
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Old Dec 31, 2014, 07:37 AM
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Because I am having so much trouble getting myself to shower, I googled 'why do I hate to shower', and found this forum and at least I know I am not alone anymore. I am however still beating myself up and calling myself a loser because I 'plan' to take a shower, then just can't get myself to do it. The worst thing is I have NO CLUE why. I can't figure it out, it just keeps getting worse. I have depression, anxiety and PTSD. I can understand when the depression is bad, because I can hardly get myself out of bed, but other wise I cannot figure out the reason. It is so frustrating to me, today I cried because I failed to make myself shower again, it seems SO STUPID. I clean myself and don't smell and I can get myself to wash my hair every few days, but the whole shower thing is becoming a bigger issue every day and I don't know what to do. Today I started to panic while driving in the car just thinking about getting into the shower. I have read a lot of the thread on this subject but not everything (it's alot to read!). Does anyone please have any ideas of how I can make myself get in the shower? I don't mind once I'm in there, but getting in there is the problem. I feel like if someone was in the bathroom with me I could do it, but I have no clue as to why that feels like it would help, and since I'm single the only one that could do that would be my 21 year old daughter, and I'm not quite sure she would understand why, I mean I don't, how could I explain it to her? I'm getting so anxious about it now you can probably tell by my ramblings! Argh! I don't know what to do, I feel scared, this is crazy!!
A lot of us have this for various reasons. In my case, my back is terrible and I can't stand up long (no tub or seat yet). Try getting some beautiful new products, bath gels, etc, a new loofah, anything to tempt yourself.
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Old Dec 31, 2014, 08:57 AM
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I haven't showered in five days and am not planning to unless I am forced to at the unit, which I doubt will happen. My hair is inexplicably disgusting and because it's long it looks like rat tails, but when depressed I become terrified of water. My skin feels too sensitive and i haven't got the energy or motivation to shower.
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Old Dec 31, 2014, 09:16 AM
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I haven't showered in five days and am not planning to unless I am forced to at the unit, which I doubt will happen. My hair is inexplicably disgusting and because it's long it looks like rat tails, but when depressed I become terrified of water. My skin feels too sensitive and i haven't got the energy or motivation to shower.



you'll get their.

don't beat yourself up about it, especially if you don't have plans.

5 days is a long time, but hardly the end of the world
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Old Dec 31, 2014, 01:03 PM
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I shower but I see over & over here many do not like it. I wonder why? Surely someone can give an answer what's going on.
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Old Dec 31, 2014, 01:05 PM
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I shower but I see over & over here many do not like it. I wonder why? Surely someone can give an answer what's going on.
If you don't understand, chances are you can't understand unless the problem ever happens to you. Aside from pain, there's an unwillingness I feel to get into water. There's something about the water that's very frightening. The force and noise.
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Old Dec 31, 2014, 01:14 PM
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I also have a hard time getting myself in the shower when I feel deeply depressed, but once I showered, i feel somewhat better and refreshed.
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Old Dec 31, 2014, 01:23 PM
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Old Dec 31, 2014, 01:39 PM
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I also have PTSD and there's a lot of fear of getting in the shower as I too live alone.
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Old Dec 31, 2014, 01:52 PM
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Lol i was just going through all topics, i'm not even bipolar, but i have the same issue with taking showers, and sometimes it isn't even ED related, it's just that i don't feel like it, so i just wash my hair and go to sleep. Most of the times it happens when i feel depressed, but when i feel a little bit better it still happens. Call me gross, but i've been more than 2 weeks without taking a shower in the past. When i got into the shower after all that time i spent more than 2 hours in there.

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Old Dec 31, 2014, 02:10 PM
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I also have PTSD and there's a lot of fear of getting in the shower as I too live alone.
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Old Dec 31, 2014, 06:54 PM
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I shower but I see over & over here many do not like it. I wonder why? Surely someone can give an answer what's going on.
It seems to be a combination of factors and not everyone has the same cluster of issues. Personally I like to shower, it's just getting there that seems to be the problem. I planned on showering tonight, for instance, but now I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen.
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It seems to be a combination of factors and not everyone has the same cluster of issues. Personally I like to shower, it's just getting there that seems to be the problem. I planned on showering tonight, for instance, but now I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen.


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