J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Scapula,
I don't get that. Are you trimming your toenails, or your boots?

Ally

Pablo,
Maybe you should check yourself in for an appointment with the Uni psych clinic!

Actually, it's one of the many interesting things about mental disorders. Most people do some of the things that one would see as symptoms in the mentally ill, but not to such an extent that they actually become ill. So, it's not really the symptom, but the degree to which one suffers from it. And if you ever read a psychiatric text book you will surely find that you have diagnosed yourself with all sorts of mental illnesses (like in the book 3 men in a boat).

For example, many people talk to themselves, worry about things, forget things, lose their temper, find public speaking hard etc. etc. but they're perfectly 'normal'. However, when it reaches the point where you find it so difficult to speak to anyone, for example, that you don't venture out of the house and buy everything on the internet, then you need some help.

Even thoughts like 'I want to kill myself/someone else' are perfectly normal. Apparently most people have considered killing themselves at some point in their life - but most people get over it without needing any help (or killing anyone!). I wish someone had told me this when I was younger.

And if Admin thinks I've wondered too far off topic, then I'm quite happy to admit to the fact that last year I felt like killing someone in my ski lesson. He annoyed me so much I nearly burst with anger.

He was French (not that I have anything against French people) and was only in our English speaking lesson because he'd been chucked out of his French class for ski-ing too slowly. And, he refused to try to speak English to us, or even try to help me speak to him in French. He refused to follow the snake line skied by the rest of the class, and would often ski 'on the other tack' i.e. in the opposite direction. I thought it was really dangerous, and I told the instructor this, and he told the French guy, but he still kept doing it, and I was really boiling with anger about it. Anyway, eventually, the inevitable happened. I turned one way, and he turned the wrong way, and we skied straight into one another in a chest on collision and we both crashed to the ground, locked in each others arms.

The instructor thought it was hilarious, and laughed like anything and made some joke about was it the closest encounter I'd ever had with a French man.

Anyway, I didn't kill him, but I did wonder afterwards whether my subconscious had anything to do with that collision, because I was SO ANGRY with him.

Afterwards, he was much more careful how he skied, and kept well out of my way.

Ally

OCD isn't really about being organized. As it says, it's about being compelled, in an obsessive way, to do certain things, which can even be deleterious to one's health etc.

The classic one is hand washing. People suffering this one can wash their hands so much the skin is worn red, and even then they still have to keep washing them.

Another one, is compulsively checking things - like 'have I locked the front door?' and going back a zillion times to check.

And things like counting lamp posts, walking on cracks on the pavement, having to have everything in sets of fives (like those volume bars on the telly) etc.

It can get so bad that the unfortunate sufferer is unable to live a normal life, because they can't get to work etc.

But sorting washing in this over zealous way, and going to extremes to plan everything, like this poor woman did, are possible symptoms of OCD.

It is a subject I know quite a lot about, not that I suffer from it myself.

Ally

Well,
That's a new one IceGhost, no-one else has been kidnapped so far,

Ally

I think COD means cash on delivery, whereas OCD means obsessive compulsive disorder - which is much more likely.

Poor woman. And I really pity her family. I wonder if she's having treatment for it (assuming that's what she has), it's an awfully difficult thing to treat (have you seen that detective program 'Monk', he has it pretty badly).

Ally

Hi Pablo,
Have a lovely weekend ski-ing, don't take any notice of Ian, he's just trying to be a wet blanket,

Ally

What a good idea Kitenski,
When my younger daughter leaves home in a couple of years maybe I could get a job as a chalet middle aged lady (I've had plenty of practice at cleaning for holidaymakers), for 2-3 months in the winter when we don't have holidaymakers here, and I could ski in my spare time :lol:

The only thing is, I'd have to find something for my husband to do as well, and he doesn't ski, but he's a typical farmer and he's very good at doing repair and maintenance work.

Ally

Hi Greg/Kitenski,
Thanks very much, that's a most impressive list - I don't think I've got much hope of being able to ski like you, I've only done 7 weeks of ski-ing in my whole life, although I started when I was 8 years old (nearly 40 years ago).

Ally