Bizarre habitsSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "Until I pointed it out, my other half use to hang out the washing making sure that both pegs were the same colour. Now she goes out of her way to make sure they never match." Tell us about bizarre rituals, habits and OCD-like behaviour.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 12:33)
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We're really not rational you know...The compulsions probably don't start off as debilitating but become so when they need to be done more frequently to provide relief from the anxiety caused by the obsession. Once they've become so frequent as to become distressing themselves the patient has the option of stopping them (as per your suggestion) and becoming crippled by anxiety or getting treatment (which you seem to think is wimpy).
Reason, laws, mathematics, science are all systems that we have collectively developed to counteract the problems caused by humans individually being irrational. Bear in mind we are talking about the minds of individuals here, and not even the conscious parts of those minds at that. If you want examples of irrationality then how about superstition, staying with a partner despite the fact that you know they're bad for you, buying a lottery ticket etc. etc. etc. These are all examples where you consciously know you should do thing A, but do thing B instead because it makes you feel better (if only temporarily).
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What about someone who is neither superstitious, religious, and likes being their partner?Are they allowed to be called rational?
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 16:39,
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