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er... ok the above was not in anyway a reference to any personal choice or situation anyone in this thread has made or found themselves in and I'm no really sure why it may possibly be construed to be taken that way. I didn't personally address anyone so not sure why I was personally addressed re: meds, etc... but please don't do that when I share really super personal and highly specific OCD s**t when its not super easy to do in the first place and I've seriously addressed NOTHING specifically about any personal choices anyone else has made. I had only read the OPs post.

this is not to detract from the thread so not carrying this on into a big conversation.
anyway. carryon.

K.thanks.

I personally addressed you because you had mentioned that even CBT can't help it much and as my posts had said a lot about how I mentally work through it, I thought you were responding to that. You also mentioned using the medications and I didn't want you to think I was saying that people can just always work through it with medications. I thought that's what you thought I might be saying. I assumed you had read the entire thread. I did not take offense to anything you said. What is said is very, very true. I also personally addressed you because I was planning to personally address BuyerBeware and wished to portray appreciation of what you said in your posts and to let you know your posts had been read. Often times for me, I feel like my posts get ignored and then that I must not have said anything of value and wanted you to know I wasn't ignoring you. I am sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable. I know these things are very personal and nothing I said was meant to be down-putting. I am not sure how addressing you personally was the wrong thing to do unless it came across as adversarial and I am sorry; I know how exposing and scary it is to tell other people about these things. I do know that your list, prior to the quote box, is not showing on my screen so I can't read your entire list: all that is there are hyphens. It might be my display settings but that has never happened before. I thought perhaps you had deleted them but left the hyphens. Do they show on your end?

Thank you, both of you, sooooooooo much for the information.

I don't know what to say, exactly, but I think it has been helpful and useful to me. I think, I think I thought myself into this (what did somebody say about "instant guilt" and "pathological doubt"??) and so I guess I am going to have to think myself out.

Now I guess THAT is going to be one hell of a feat of psychological prestidigitation.

"Psychological prestidigitation". That's an apt description. Spot on, as they say.