My being startled by the very idea began, actually, when suggestion of creating the thread came up here in the Off-Topic.It is a very fine line to tread - The line between informing and over-simplifying. It's just like what occured toward the end of the Albatross thread. There, an attempt to inform ended up trivializing - here, an attempt, inadvertant as it was, to trivialize ended up informing. Maybe it would have been good to see what type of response would have been received following the disclosure of further information. If knowing that real OCD is nothing to be toyed with, perhaps the tone would have changed a bit toward people respecting the true suffering endured by those with the disease and everyone around them. On the other hand, if a "Yeah, Whatever, naydi" response was received and the condition continued to be treated as a joke with no realization on the part of those participating that "Demonstrating Care and Responsibility For Your Actions Toward Others" is a right and honorable thing to do - then a deletion of the thread would have, most certainly, needed to have been made. In fairness, though, it had to have been a very hard call to make; especially having seen the string of responses made before that point...
QUOTE (bwalter @ Feb 24 2007, 06:08 AM) 
Well, I'm going to step out of the PC line here, and ask: WHAT was offensive? Provocative, yes. (Is there nothing NOT sacred? ) The poll vs the posts were informative too. Who is really OCD - as Naydi explained it- and who is, like most of us, only passingly preoccupied with a subject? And for those for whom OCD is a very real impediment - I salute you all - how in the world was this thread hurtful?
I took the time to look up OCD. Now I know a h*ll of a lot more than I did 48 hours ago. Is this a bad thing? Cannot we address difficult afflictions with good humour? Aren't asking and laughing and acquiring information essential to coping and understanding, on both sides of the fence?
I had the feeling that some members of this board found the topic theraputic. People bothered to vote. Look at the tally. No one was door-knocked on this. Speak or don't speak. The choice is so grindingly simple.
It seems to me that the question was posed not only in good faith, but in response to intimations made by several people here. Good for you. Thanks for raising the issue.
Maybe I was too flip in my non-OCD own post, and that may have sent hackles rising. Too bad. It seems to me that psychological and physical illnesses are only reinforced by pious respect and tiptoe treatment. Sunlight and laughter are scientifically sound applications for many disorders. Let the treatment begin here. It sure can't hurt.
Okay, so shoot me.
I took the time to look up OCD. Now I know a h*ll of a lot more than I did 48 hours ago. Is this a bad thing? Cannot we address difficult afflictions with good humour? Aren't asking and laughing and acquiring information essential to coping and understanding, on both sides of the fence?
I had the feeling that some members of this board found the topic theraputic. People bothered to vote. Look at the tally. No one was door-knocked on this. Speak or don't speak. The choice is so grindingly simple.
It seems to me that the question was posed not only in good faith, but in response to intimations made by several people here. Good for you. Thanks for raising the issue.
Maybe I was too flip in my non-OCD own post, and that may have sent hackles rising. Too bad. It seems to me that psychological and physical illnesses are only reinforced by pious respect and tiptoe treatment. Sunlight and laughter are scientifically sound applications for many disorders. Let the treatment begin here. It sure can't hurt.
Okay, so shoot me.
. I`m sure you got the kudos for you out of my post 
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You are my evening star, darling, just as naydi is my morning bucket of cold water in the face. 
!). Although I love/am addicted to all three shows, particularly LOCI, I am simply incapable of watching any TV programme without doing something else. 
