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  1. daja

    Just heard on the radio what sounded like an NHS advert offering help for obsessive compulsive thoughts urging people to seek help from a GP for help.

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      That will be good if that was the case. The only advert I have ever heard was for a commercial MAC drug company recruiting patients for an OCD drug trial (that seems to be failing).

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  2. snowbear

    Does anybody else get fed up with typing their email address into every site they log onto? I reckon I type it out 30 or more times every day!!

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Not as much as I hate accepting huge cookie boxes on every single site.  

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  3. Ashley

    My Christmas Message  - https://www.ocduk.org/christmas-message-from-ashley-2022/

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Thanks Roy :)

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  4. taurean

    Dear forum friends, tomorrow marks a year that I have gone without OCD causing me problems.

    So I know  it can be done, if we work on not giving belief to intrusions, phasing out compulsions, and keeping up activities that take time and opportunity away from OCD.

    When we work hard to achieve this, the results should come. There will be challenges along the way, it's not easy, but - as I have found- it can be done.

     

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Congrats Roy, I am so pleased to read this, well done you :)

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  5. Symps07

    Bit last posting, but I completed the Manchester 10k in aid of OCD UK and raised a few pennies! Congratulations to the other people I saw also wearing OCD UK shirts! ?:punk:

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      How was it on the day, did you enjoy it?   And thank you so much :)

       

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  6. Ashley

    I discovered this week I have a niece that is old enough to have a job.. how did that happen! I should not be old enough to have a niece that is old enough to have a job.

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Edit: I did know I had a niece, the realisation she is old enough for a job was the discovery. 

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  7. daja

    Just went to the MedConfidential website to find out how to opt out of NHS sharing data to keep my medical records confidential.

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Does it make a suggestion how to do it?

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  8. OB1

    OB1

    Bacon butty and glass of Prosecco, I'm actually having a nice and peaceful morning alone (but not feeling alone) on Christmas!

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Oh im alone.  But I am full in, Turkey in the oven,  stuffing and roasties go in around 2pm to eat around 3pm. I might be on my own, but it's Christmas :)

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  9. gingerbreadgirl

    Merry Christmas everyone! Hope we all manage to have a nice day in this strangest of years 

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      You too GBG :) Merry Christmas x

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  10. Chirpy

    Hello my name is Imogen and I am 58 years old. I have suffered with ocd for over 38 years. Sometimes I have no intrusive thoughts at all and other times they have been over welling. Most of the time I cope very well but this COVID 19 period has been challenging. I know I will get better again and keep on fighting. That is the only way we will get better

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Hi Imogen, welcome to the forums. :)   Great message to keep on fighting! 

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  11. snowbear

     Received an email from Amazon Smile to say £80 was raised for OCD-UK this quarter by people shopping on the site. So make sure you're shopping at Amazon Smile (not just Amazon UK) and choose OCD-UK as your chosen charity. No extra cost to you and it's the same shop!

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Thank you Snowbear :) 

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  12. gingerbreadgirl

    Why oh why did I procrastinate on getting a haircut prior to lockdown? 

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Ha, I did have the same thought a couple of weeks ago GBG, should I go and get my number 3 all over or wait.. I waited and now it's getting way too bushy for my liking, I have to do things like comb it in a morning now. :D

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  13. daja

    So hard to shop for food AND socially distance.

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      My dad made this point last night. It is, but I guess we just have to minimise risk as much as we can and try and avoid people as much as we can in there. 

  14. Ashley

    Struggling to even lift my glass of coke today!

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Thanks Starbuck, yeah I am ok really, just feels a bit tight on the top part of my chest from where I fell. Just bruised really I assume.

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  15. Ashley

    Had two weeks of a virus and bored with it now. Two weeks of coughing violently when I lay down to the point I throw up. Not had full nights sleep in weeks. 

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Although I am being threatened by my colleague Zoe that if I pass my bug on to her she will kill me ?

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  16. Ashley

    Had two weeks of a virus and bored with it now. Two weeks of coughing violently when I lay down to the point I throw up. Not had full nights sleep in weeks. 

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Yeah better thanks, the drugs seem to be working *touch wood*, I laid down on my bed without any real coughing last night and dropped off for a good 7 hours.  I am still coughing when I wake up for a hour, but nothing too aggressive. 

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  17. Ashley

    Had two weeks of a virus and bored with it now. Two weeks of coughing violently when I lay down to the point I throw up. Not had full nights sleep in weeks. 

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Yeah went to GP twice, last week's said I had to wait it out, but still no better Tuesday so went back, the second GP suggested Bronchitis and given me some anti-biotics which touch wood seem to be working, I am getting sleep now (once initial coughing stops).

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  18. gingerbreadgirl

    Turned off my storage heaters yesterday to "save money" and now my flat is like an ice cube. Past GBG fail. 

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Think yourself lucky you have heating to turn off GBG, my central heating's packed up again for second time in the month two days ago... Brrrrr

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  19. gingerbreadgirl

    When you find a spider in a hard to reach place and have no choice but to burn the house down and emigrate :D 

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Leave them fire burner, spiders are fab (apart from dangerous ones). I'm currently still plagued by tinier and even more annoying unidentified crawling things on walls near front door.

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  20. gingerbreadgirl

    Has encountered about twenty million spiders in the last three days. 

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Living in the country I get loads of spiders and I don't mind them at all, I usually let them roam around. But I hate tiny insects and on the wall near my door I have lots of tiny ones crawling on the inside wall around front door when hot like yesterday. Urrgghghh

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  21. Ashley

    Riding 100 miles for the charity this weekend on Sunday on the old Olympic road race route. Starts at Olympic Park > central London > Surrey Hills > Wimbledon > Finish in front of Buckingham Palace.

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Thank you everyone for sponsoring.  I did it, it was challenging but 95 mile course (a hill was closed due to accident shortening to 95 from 100) but getting to and from start/finish line I did about 110 miles cycling on the day.    I did it in a time of 7hr 40 which is slow, but I had to stop 7 times to get water/pee so that added at least 5 minutes per stop and a few bottlenecks and accidents meant we were held at times so I lost at least 20-30 minutes there.  My target is to get under 7 hours next year.  Will post about an OCD issue later.

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  22. Ashley

    Riding 100 miles for the charity this weekend on Sunday on the old Olympic road race route. Starts at Olympic Park > central London > Surrey Hills > Wimbledon > Finish in front of Buckingham Palace.

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      I do indeed...

      https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/OCD-more-than-you-think

       

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  23. Ashley

    I'm expecting a Gemma shaped visitor to the OCD-UK office later. 

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      Yep.

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  24. lostinme

    Why is it that when I right OCD UK into Google search the Linden method comes to the top of the page now instead ? 

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      If it was the advertising post then they are budgeted to so much a day, so when it's clicked enough times its budget gets used up and it disappears for the day.  Of course, clicking it costs Linden money... not that I would do that :D

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  25. lostinme

    Why is it that when I right OCD UK into Google search the Linden method comes to the top of the page now instead ? 

    1. Ashley

      Ashley

      It doesn't when I enter it.   Linden is a master of marketing so he's most likely paid the google ads to get his post appear using that search term. I assume that's what you saw?  

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