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Thanks for your advise there thank you ..had a bit of luck yesterday afternoon ..i rang sheffield mind who run a horders group and i my persaverance has paid off ..i actualy got to talk to someone and explain ..and by look they are running a group TODAY! and they got me in ..he also said they were closed for 1 2 1 but there is a chance they may be able to help so i can have a chat later about it ..........i also maniged to resist going to buy 4 powerbanks to keep my phone charged and have left my charger lead at home today ..but its a bit of an itchy feeling and rather uncomfatuble ..but i have typed it ...thanks again

From what i can gather the first list you typed could be pages and pages and pages long and on that list your compulsion will be one of them ..but its just compulsions they are all the same and are delt with the same regardless ..someone on here gave me some great advise to look at other compulsions the ones that dont relate to yours and it makes it easyer to read about snd see how they are delt with ..and it helps

SO ..had an assemnt with the IAPT ..refered to a help team and no one contacts you ..so presented at the GP got a referal to first point of contact comunity team //gp trarged me with 4 questions lol ..so just rang up cos no contact and someone will ring me to trearge me again ..but they dont know when ..and then it can be upto 16 moths for a referal ...now come on we all in the same boat and we know that being left hanging with OCD knowing that someone will ring at some point is like puting more logs on a fire ..so now for the last few weeks i am checking my phone constantly ..ringing home 4 times a day to check letter box and getting up in the night to find my phone ...jesus i lost my phone more in the last few weeks becase i am constantly putting it in a safe place then forgetting where the safe plase is ITS LIKE 10000 SPOONS WHEN ALL YOU NEED IS A KNIFE ..its that ironic ...(well it is to me ) ..can you get where i am comming from ?

Same as me but its not worked out so well i was refered to a horders group that are not taking on people at the moment so no been referd to the comunity mental health team ..just waiting for an appointment ..it would be interesting to find out how you get on if you dont mind

Hi there ..i calnt tel you what its like sorry ..but try not to be nervous i am sure it will be fine ..can i just ask you have you already done an assement with your local IAPT?

Thanks so much Snowbear ..at first i rad your reply and thourt : eh?) i read it again thort (hmm?) read it again and thort (AHH! ) reads it about 10 times more and tryed got my head round what you were getting at and started looking at contamination ...found that hard aswell noticing that i do things like that aswell ...so started to read about harm ..and you know what i got it !!! boom! ..started looking at my traits from a differant angle and its helpED ...ALOT! ..its still there alll day everyday but i am now questioning my thorts and getting mad with them ... in my mind i now say .."you are not beeting me I AM THE BOSS" ..i can feel this sortov little monster cowering away ...It comes back dont get me wrong and if i am not on the ball it gets the better of me ...but i am feeling more positive ..i have had a small set back with Hording ..but ..the thing is ..i know i am doing it and why ..i could feel the sence of relife with the compulsion ...it has made me happy ..but i now no this is wrong ..i should feel happy without having to have things ...so again ..thankyou its the first step and you have helped

Hi guys ( again) ..anouther day same **** ! ..so i will try ..sorry i know we all in the same boat here and feel like its somtimes just me me me ....right then i am waiting for a referal at the moment so trying to do some self help ..nailed a few things down by having a word with my self and looking outside in and ...Retroactive Jealousy OCD and hording is my thing ( well the one that is rearing its head at presant)..the hording i can read about but tryed to read about Retroactive Jealousy and i am finding it so so hard ..i calnt do it ..reading about it just makes me see what might as well be vidios in my head and wack anxayity up to level 10 ...now this is starting to worry me thinking how can someone help me when i calnt help myself?

Thanks for the reply ...I dont know exctly why but ...its realy made me think ....just that one reply from a stranger is making me think that maybe i may be a horder as my firsd assesment sujested

Hi Guys So i have been realy strugling with Rumination for weeks now ..morning noon night ..every waking hour ..randomly last night i bought an old car ..the build up to fetching it bringing it home has totaly stoped me ruminating ..and today nothing not 1 thourt !! problem is its a bit of a project needs a bit of work . i have 9 others at back of my house that i have started and never finished they just sat there so the back of my house looks like a scrap yard ..its realy impacting on my wife aswell becasue there is stuff all over that i have bought and never finished but it makes me happy just to start them ..thing is i dont have any attachment to these things its just when the next thing comes on i am all consumed with that new thing and nothing else is on my mind ..eating ...personal hygeen and sleeping go out the window to ...to be honest there is no point to thsi topic as such ..i just wanted to type it to gat it off my chest ..is that acceptable? do you think this is somthing i can act on to stop me ruminating without ending up with more scrap?

Thanks Cam i have Just come off the phone with the GP and have a referal to the comunity mental health team ..she rang me back for a pre scren questionare and Very abruptly ..." do you constantly wash?".."do you like things in order".." do you have skin problems for washing to much"..are you at risk to yorself or others" ....ok thats all i need to know??? .....hmm i just been asked the sterio typical ocd questions??....not do you think of your kids dieing in a plane crash constantly ...do you think CONSTANTLY about your wifes ex boyfriends ..do you think of these things taht much that you dont wash ..you dont eat you8 dont tidy up ..because the time is taken up thinking aboiut every bad thing that has ever happenend to anybody buy yourself so you just sit there thinking ..trying to make sence of it all so you dont do normal things ..you push yourself into a position of somthing to take your mind off it and then when your minds off it for a bit you dont finish what you started ...the self referal i had not long back diagnosis after a 2 hour interview sorta aired towards hording ..but its not that that the compulsion its many diferant things ..and its mostly sat thinking so calnt be arsed to do anything ...from what the GP asked me it seems odd to ask by a profesional?

Hi I calnt do this no more ..i will try to explain the best i can ..as a kid i was told i had Dyslexia (back in the late 80"s) then told i had ADHD. in the late 90's then recently OCD.. 3 of my kids have Dyslexia one has ADHD..so its not as though it does not run in my family and they have had modern diagnosis so i do trust that the ones i had when you were ..lets be fair treated like you were Thick! back in the 80's stand today ..now i have realy realy been strugling with Ruminattion and its realy got worse over the last few weeks ..last week i was in such a flap foighting adhd and ocd i lost my wallet ...my phone ..my keys ..hid the kids chrismass money and forgot where i hid it ..all on seperate occasions within a week all at the same time as haveing the most intrusive thourts i have ever had that are consuming every waking moment ..now the fact of the matter is that i calnt posable do appointments and sitting down for more than 5 minuits being talked to i just could not do it ..i calnt even make appointments or remeber what time they are that would seriusly impact on me .so i have dicided to make an appointment at my GP's to discuss medication ...i have even now forgot the point i was trying to get at from when i first started typing so i am going to just say ..waht are your experiances with meds? and what questions should i be asking?

i will try to explain So i start thinking about things that happend 20 years ago they start realy getting in my head ..so say while this is happening i start restoring say and old lawn mower this takes my mind off it ..next thing i have 30 old lawnmowers to restore i get that involved in the mowers nothing else can get in my mind ..but that then affects my eating ,personal hygine , my work ,my family ..i am all consumed ..now as this is happening the thinking of the past has now gone ..so i then start getting over the lawn mowers and get board of them so they dont get finished ..so then the process starts again but lets say next time its model planes ..it goes round and round and round

I dont disagree but it all went to Hording as the compulsion. i just dont know because i dont know where to turn next ..its the consatnt thinking of the past all the bad things i may or may not have done and how they have afected others i calnt get it out my mind constant and its getting worse tbh..when i say bad things i meen like standing up girlfriends ,,pushing kids over ..stuff like that i dont meen like realy hurting people

Its a Hording support group in my city

Hi thanks for the reply ..they said to join a group called Magpies but they are not taking on any new referals at the moment they also said they had sent the diagnosis off to my GP and thats it ..its the thinking about the past that is hurting me not the fact that i end up with loads off stuff ..the stuff means nothing to me ..but it sempt that they werte focusing on me having loads af projects unfinished