[bellaviolet]

how nervous was i? years and years of avoiding tx....... but i actually liked her...... not sure i loved her triple dx though. depression and gad and ocd, oh my. i was expecting the first 2, the ocd was a surprise. i questioned her on it but she was pretty insistent. im still not convinced - one hour with me and reading my intake notes? - but shes the pro, right? i meet with the pdoc on halloween, creepy huh, mwah-hah-hah....... hopefully she'll be ok too. either way proud of myself for finally taking the plunge...hope they can help me help myself........

[Perna]

That's great that you're getting squared away with T's and PDocs! The dx's have ranges, if you have trouble seeing the OCD, could be that it isn't very "bad"? It could be part of the GAD too, they're both anxiety. I had/have GAD and there were times I was leaving on/checking to see if I left on, irons and stuff. I tried to "cure" myself and refused to come home (when I was almost all the way to work and was afraid I'd left my iron on) and when I got home that afternoon I had left it on! I have a really good memory so it's heck when I'm not sure because I must be sure! LOL.

Glad you liked the T, hope you like the PDoc too. You going to wear a costume to that appointment? :-)

[bellaviolet]

i once took my whole lunch break to go home thinking i'd left the iron on...... i had not only turned it off but unplugged it and put it in the bathtub (you know, just in case it was still hot). i went and took the pc ocd quiz a little while ago and scored like a 22....so maybe she's right....... i just never thought of my checking/worrying as anything more than, well, checking and worrying....... and i always thought of ocd as like the germophobia and closing doors multiple times and stuff. the extreme cases i guess.

that's so funny...... i talked to my best friend earlier and when i told him i met with the pdoc on halloween the first thing he said was "are you gonna wear a costume?" maybe i should, as long as i don't decide to go as a mental patient.....wouldn't want the folks at the mhc to get the wrong idea, lol....

[Perna]

Don't know what you could go as? Not as Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde or any other "split" characters; I wouldn't go as Jason or Frankenstein or any other monster or pathological type. What wouldn't look "wrong" in a mental health center??? LOL

Nurse Ratched?

[bellaviolet]

my old standby halloween costume has always been "the hippie"....mostly because i still have lots of clothes left over from the hippie days of my youth (and some of them even still fit )......but it won't work as well here in boulder, where the hippie movement is alive and well, as it did back in new york - i'd just blend in with half the population, lol..... guess i'd have to come up with something i could wear to the mhc that wouldnt make them want to keep me there, lol.... keep tossing ideas at me if youve got em.....

ooohhh, petunia, nurse ratched scared me so bad!!! (poor billy, i wanted to strangle her too!)....... i think i'd scare myself if i tried that.....

[Perna]

You could dress as a hotel maid (as opposed to "French" maid :-) and carry in your iron, explain you have OCD and wanted to make sure you'd turned it off :-)