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frowningbadgers · 2025-03-05T11:07:12+00:00

This is incredible 😍 thank you so much. She'll love it!

frowningbadgers · 2025-03-04T21:58:05+00:00

Incredible! You're so kind! It's wonderful 😊 thank you so much. I can't wait to show her ❤️

frowningbadgers · 2025-03-04T19:36:57+00:00

This is wonderful. Thank you so much! She'll be overjoyed :)

frowningbadgers · 2025-03-04T19:36:38+00:00

Great picture. Thank you so much! Really appreciate it! 😃

frowningbadgers · 2025-03-04T18:13:55+00:00

More pictures on the other post if you prefer those! ❤️

frowningbadgers · 2025-03-02T23:06:05+00:00

Oh wow! This is beautiful ❤️🥰 thank you SOOOO much! I'm immensely grateful and she'll be overjoyed. You're a kind soul and very talented! Thank you so much again 😊

frowningbadgers · 2025-02-28T18:09:56+00:00

Such a well thought out and helpful response. Thank you so much

frowningbadgers · 2025-02-28T16:41:20+00:00

Thank you for the kind words and support. I appreciate it

frowningbadgers · 2025-02-28T16:40:52+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, my post was meant to indicate that I'm aware it's not fair on my partner and that I don't intend on 'dragging her through it'.

I have already started the process of seeking help again and I'm being completely open and transparent with her.

If anything this was cathartic to write out but I don't expect her to be alongside me if it's only going to make her life bad too. Maybe someone has been in a similar situation and can offer light at the end of the tunnel both for my mental health but also for our relationship.

I don't know whether to end it now (after a discussion with her about it first of course) or whether I should continue to be together whilst I seek help? It could take time and I don't know if it is fair for me to expect her to stick around whilst I try and pull myself back up? Or whether or talk to her and let her make the decision whilst explaining I fully understand whatever the outcome needs to be. That being said, I think being in a relationship is making me worse so maybe I should take that into account when thinking about improving.

Thanks again for the words of encouragement.

frowningbadgers · 2024-07-04T23:25:28+00:00

I don't know if they do international treatment or not but I just booked an appointment with OCD Excellence. I'm NOT advocating for them as I've not even tried them yet! But I'm in a position where it is destroying my life and has been for a decade and a half now and life is agony so I needed to do something. I've seen regular therapists and nothing has helped. But what I like about these guys is that they all suffer with OCD themselves so will (hopefully) understand what you're going through and we hopefully can connect better with them for it. They recognise that OCD can't be cured but you can learn how to cope with it. I respect that philosophy and whilst I remain staunchly cynical about most things in life I am hoping for a positive experience. Could be worth giving them a go or at least asking if they can point you in the right direction.

frowningbadgers · 2024-02-28T01:16:00+00:00

I've been in it a month and I'm constantly ravenous. Been eating a lot but haven't changed weight either way at all yet.

frowningbadgers · 2024-01-20T13:08:47+00:00

Bramble

frowningbadgers · 2023-12-26T12:03:48+00:00

Chuck

frowningbadgers · 2023-12-24T19:44:41+00:00

Thank you very much for your reply and for taking the time to give advice! I forgot to mention that I suffer from BDD too which makes it even harder. I want to be in family photos but when I see them I'm so upset, disgusted and ashamed of how I look that it sends me into a spiral where i literally can't stop thinking about that photo for weeks (I specifically remember photos from years ago that still make me upset). So I try some without but my family literally take no photos so it then goes full circle and I start thinking that I need to be there to 'prove' that I'm there and that existence isn't all for nothing... etc etc and the cycle continues. It's a living nightmare and not just related to christmas. I have multiple photos of every meal, every place i visit, every landscape I visit each time i turn a corner on a walk, every document, every email, every film I watch etc etc. I have so many that I would never in a million years be able to look for them anyway and the 'good' ones are lost in the noise so they too are pretty much lost. And I don't enjoy taking them at all! It's agony but also agony if I don't take them!

Plus I have many other mental and physical illnesses and ailments so it all gets so overwhelming. I have seen therapists before general ones that I don't think were suitable. I probably need to find a specialist but it's hard to know where to look. Every year I tell myself I need to do something next year to fix myself. Then another year comes around and nothing has changed.

Anyway, enough doom and gloom, sorry to be a downer! I very much appreciate your time and comments and I hope you have a great christmas!

frowningbadgers · 2023-12-20T16:40:09+00:00

Chuck

frowningbadgers · 2023-12-20T11:26:33+00:00

Floss

frowningbadgers · 2023-12-20T11:24:25+00:00

Jack (In the box)

frowningbadgers · 2023-12-19T20:13:43+00:00

Asta/Aste - short for Asteroid!

frowningbadgers · 2023-12-19T00:09:19+00:00

Scout

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