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 I cannot sneeze again. This inability to sneeze has been going on for 20 years now. I go into cycles of weeks where I cannot complete a sneeze. The ahhh comes....but the choo does not. I have been deep in one of those cycles. I think I have sneezed once in the last 2 weeks. I am now jealous of anyone who shoots out a sneeze, My girlfriend just blasted out a ferocious honker. I lovingly said gazuntite. But, I am quietly jealous and envious. I know my issue has nothing to do with a physical problem. I feel fine. But, my neurotic head will not allow me to function. I wait to sneeze minute by minute. I cannot. This is not a joke.

I'm sitting here so miserable with really nothing to be miserable about accept the Obsessive Compulsive disorder I suffer from which is raging non-stop through my defective brain like a California wildfire.  Oh, man, does this hurt. Not a physical pain in my body either. Just the same mental torment my 71 year old body has been suffering from since I used to sweat profusely all over my pillow when I was a little boy. You see, I could not rest until I lined that pillow up perfectly in a certain position and perfectly might not come for an hour or two. So, much has changed externally in all these years but internally its the same torture chamber that only opens up if I act out in some insane way to relieve the obsessive demons. Unfortunately, acting out is at best short term relief or, in the alternative, no relief at all, only making my OCD worse.  Intellectual understandings of mental illness does nothing to relieve the pain. Ask any nut like me.  So, I understand ...

David's Place: Compulsive Gambling and Obsessive Compulsive Disor... : A realization dawned on me this morning when I woke up a few hours earlier than  normal. I was not tired but actually inspired. I wanted bad...

The argument is about strawberries!! Really. strawberries. My girlfriend is all pissy tonight. She did not want to go out. She is too tired. I said fine. Good with me. Anyway, we usually get along. I'm this 70 year old Jewish, divorced guy who started another life in Florida after living in Chicago until four months ago. I met my wonderful, absolutely brilliant and indescribably gorgeous girlfriend a few months ago. Now, we live together. We both are retired and she takes care of me like a baby. She loves me crazy, crazy and I love her the same way. I am kind of an entitled, spoiled brat who does not follow normal protocols in many areas .My girlfriend does not mind my being kind of sloppy, impulsive, demanding and I am willing to accept her being habitually late, being lovingly domineering,and needing lights and TVs turned off way too early. I'ts all good usually.  But, not tonight.  Well, she got out of bed for a snack. I followed her to the kitchen.  ...

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A realization dawned on me this morning when I woke up a few hours earlier than  normal. I was not tired but actually inspired. I wanted badly to write in my beloved blog which unfortunately does not love me back because I have been writing forever on Google Blogger but I have not attained the $100.00 mark in earnings needed to get a payout by Google. The above is not nearly the focus of this article. It could be. I get distracted. This is about how I see the relationship between Compulsive Gambling and Obsessive/ Compulsive Disorder. (OCD) I am, sorrowfully, an expert in both areas considering my tortured, devastating, overwhelmingly painful, lifelong experiences with both disorders.   A little background. I am a seventy year old, single male in reasonably good health. I'm retired on very little money even though I made millions. I lost most of the money gambling. Yes!! Just so you know. I'm sidelined because of an Achilles heal injury that I have been stru...