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  1. Hello.

    I live in Bristol (kind of obvious I guess)

    I don't know of any personally however if you have the money it is worth it I think. I had some private hypnotherapy for generalised anxiety and I found that private therapists are better. 

  2. I was thinking about this the other day. I have mild contamination worries. What is interesting is that I don't actually think the worry is about getting ill. More it's about the idea of touching certain things.  E.g. I will quite happily touch my parents dog. I'm not even that worried if he licks me. Where as I will get quite distressed if I touch certain peoples hands. A lot of it is to do with worrying that they might not of washed their hands after going to the toilet. It started of with my dad who does have a habit of doing that. However I do it with a lot of people now. 

    However I don't get that distressed if I touch a bin. I do wash my hands after taking something to the bin however it doesn't cause any real distress. For me that shows that it is not about getting ill more the idea of touching certain things.

    Anyone else find this?

     

  3. 21 minutes ago, DC82 said:

    Agree, too ambiguous to say definitely.

    However, the person smiling and not appearing in distress doesn't mean it isn't portraying obsessive or excessive hand cleaning. 

    Anyway, the first poster recieved an apology from the company - so at least they acknowledged it could have been interpreted as the first poster described. It's a good sign that companies are willing to listen. 

    Well that's good that he received an apology. It is a very difficult question for me. Where do we draw the line with things that the media shouldn't do and where does it become to politically correct. I'm not sure what the answer is personally

  4. 4 hours ago, gingerbreadgirl said:

    I watched the advert and i think it is hand sanitiser - that said I don't think this necessarily implies ocd. More fussiness I guess? I mean you wouldn't assume that if an advert implied someone was dieting that it was making fun of anorexia. There was no context to suggest the man was experiencing anxiety or that he was suffering from a disorder. If that makes any sense. It's a lazy advert yes but most advertising is laziness and employs some stereotype or another. 

     

     

    13 hours ago, DC82 said:

    I think it shows a man using excessive amounts of, what looks like, antibacterial hand wash. He then smells his hands. I think that type of behaviour is more closely linked with OCD than with being feminine. But it's ambiguous; intention and interpretation are different things. 

    I personally think it is a ridiculous (albeit brief) portrayal of OCD - combined with (if the person is intended to be feminine as people here suggest) the daft idea that personal hygiene/cleanliness/cleaning is a feminine activity.

    My impression is that they combine these insensitivies/assumptions together. 

    Showing a feminine man (if you agree he was) with a disorder (of any type, physical or psychological) being rejected - is confusing to viewers.

    It is not clear what Mercedes Benz are trying to say, but it appeared the man's characteristics and/or behaviours were not appealing to the lady, and he was 'dumped' on that basis (we have no more information about the dates). I'm not sure if they have purposely used ambiguity to their advantage or not. 

    I could imagine how this would be a kick in the teeth for people who have struggled with the psychological fatigue and exhaustion of excessive handwashing and cleanliness. To see someone rejected so swiftly for washing hands excessively (or for being feminine for that matter - if indeed he was meant to be feminine) doesn't make me feel great. 

    Everyone has their own sense of humour - I didn't like it, I thought it was too personal. 

    Like I say, I think it was a clumsy advert and I'm glad they apologized. 

    In the advert he is smiling and not in distress. As I said it may be implying OCD but it is ambiguous and I really don't think we can say definitely.

  5. 2 hours ago, Eddy said:

    I’m trying to upload photos Bristol Chris but its too technical and i dont have time at the mo ....just on way to London .

    No its not moisturiser....you cant squirt that as he does .....its clear liquid , and moisturiser never comes as that . 

    At the same time as him doing it , the words of the song on the TV advert says ‘ Yeah just all the time ‘ . So i am not certain , but i’m thinking its deffo not moisturiser 

    No offence buddy ...just my thoughts . I respect your thoughts too though ....just in a rush so apologies if i came across as impolite ?

    Hi eddy. Funnily enough I saw the advert after I replied. You are right it's not moisturizer but I think it is more of a joke not aimed at people with ocd but men who are a bit feminine.  He is smiling while he is doing it. You may be right but personally I don't think it is aimed at people with ocd. 

  6. On 28/06/2016 at 13:06, Ashley said:

    No, this really is the wrong message to be giving out.   We need to encourage people to tackle OCD treatment using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) which includes Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) treatment.

    ER alone is simply the wrong approach in my opinion.

    I think you are right. Although it does appear as if OCD UK has stated that CBT is the only way to get better which of don't agree with because some people find different treatments work for them.  Although CBT is the best treatment in most cases.

  7. On 06/28/2016 at 00:47, mentallyill said:

    Yeah I think that's probably true for the most part.. but of course there's OCD types like POCD. If somebody were freaking out because they're realizing suppressed pedophilia, I don't know if I would consider their anxiety irrational

    Well I want to go careful not to reassure you to much but I'm pretty certain when people have anxiety over whether they're repressing sexual thoughts of children it is quite different from ocd. People who do that don't constantly  check  their reactions and things like  that they just have an anxious feeling.

  8. 3 hours ago, mentallyill said:

    Hi Chris, I think some people actually have a type of OCD that involves excessive rumination on whether or not they have a problem. That might have been what you were saying. I definitely have episodes. But it's not confined to OCD; any sort of mental illness, like Depression or social anxiety is a huge area of concern. I think I've taken around 100 depression quizzes, just to reassure myself that I'm depressed and not something else. And I'll take the test even though I know nothing good will come of it..

    Hi

    Yes that was what I meant. Some people have OCD about whether they have OCD. My point though is that whether the problems are OCD or another form of anxiety they are still anxiety and irrational.

  9. I don't entirely know. I mean if you obsessively worry about the way you look and perform rituals it may then become BDD. And there may be other examples. But I'm not to sure Ashley would be the expert on that. I think some people on here worry to much about whether the  anxiety they have is OCD or not(which is ironically OCD) The fact is a lot of the problems people experience on here are anxiety of some sort.

     

  10. It's very likely that things would cost more. Tax alone would almost certainly make it more. The europion market is massive. Britain on it's own wouldn't be a big market.And yes we put more in than we get back but so do most of the major europion countries. But we do get benefits back.  Also say hypothetically we do save £165 million a week it wouldn't all be invested back in the NHS as some perhaps naive people suggest.

  11. On 10/05/2015 at 17:18, EzioAuditore said:

    The NHS simply has to get better and more effective on where it spends its money.

    And vote to leave the EU...10bn saved each year.

    Thats not true. Out of the £350 million we put in per week we get £100 million back in a rebate and around £85 million goes back into britain from the EU. Also the medical equipment would cost more if  we left.

  12. Yeah some people who don't underatand anxiety can say the wrong thing. One auntie once said to me

    That I might find my worries are normal. Also once I said that I had anxiety over some onion rings that may have a tiny bit of alcohole in the batter affecting my decision making 3 days later. She told me to go careful as it might

  13. Thanks for that advice Chris! The cramps are so bad it like makes you want to tense all your toes until they pass! Such a nuisance :(

    That's ok. Of really would recommend trying it. I actually don't think I had it because the pains stopped after that. But I never told the doctor I had it on so tight so they had no way of knowing.
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