Quote: sootyj @ 7th June 2016, 8:45 PM BSThitting the person in the queue at Waitrose with a novelty garden gnome because they can't use the chip'n's pin.
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Related to this as I mentioned addicts previously - have just learned recently that a friend of mine is an alcoholic so have been reading about what can be root cause (nature vs. nurture etc.), but also recently learned that with many large people who are 'addicted' to food either don't have an 'off' switch or the part of the brain that tells your stomach (or vice versa) you are full simply doesn't kick-in, so they are never satisfied.
I can't even imagine that . . . what a living hell.
I used to think that people just chose to eat the wrong thing and I am slim simply because I never touch doughnuts or pies etc. but if you are hungry all the time you are going to put on weight regardless of whether it's fish and chips or avocado salad.
So might not be as simple as plain will power in avoiding the local junk food takeaway like most of us manage quite happily - it's a defect that cultivates a compulsion to eat whatever might satisfy the most, which, unlike other addictions that are based on activating opiate receptors, is simply driven by our basic urge to eat for survival . . . all the time.
Jings. 
Quote: fopdoodle @ 7th June 2016, 10:36 PM BSTRelated to this as I mentioned addicts previously - have just learned recently that a friend of mine is an alcoholic so have been reading about what can be root cause (nature vs. nurture etc.), but also recently learned that with many large people who are 'addicted' to food either don't have an 'off' switch or the part of the brain that tells your stomach (or vice versa) you are full simply doesn't kick-in, so they are never satisfied.
I can't even imagine that . . . what a living hell.
I used to think that people just chose to eat the wrong thing and I am slim simply because I never touch doughnuts or pies etc. but if you are hungry all the time you are going to put on weight regardless of whether it's fish and chips or avocado salad.
So might not be as simple as plain will power in avoiding the local junk food takeaway like most of us manage quite happily - it's a defect that cultivates a compulsion to eat whatever might satisfy the most, which, unlike other addictions that are based on activating opiate receptors, is simply driven by our basic urge to eat for survival . . . all the time.
Jings.
A friend who is a nurse working with dependancy patients once told me a book he thinks is amazing is Blessed Are The Addicts and he went on to tell me, while we supped Guinness in a busy pub, that the people who have addictions are probably the most genuine and caring you will meet. I can see the logic in this because in my experience when I talk to people who are homeless or have addictions that is causing them hardship they are always up front and there is never an agenda. I have to admit I never bought the book but I wanted to give you the title of it. Maybe just buying it and leaving at your friends house will be a good start.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blessed-Are-Addicts-Spiritual-Alcoholism/dp/0394584015
Quote: sootyj @ 7th June 2016, 8:45 PM BSTnot hitting the person in the queue at Marks and Spencers with a solid gold novelty garden gnome because their Butler can't use the chip'n's pin.
If you don't mind
But it's a complex world some people have such a revulsion at eating they end up starving to death. Because I guess eating's a pretty gross process.
And even the occaisonal person who die from not pooing, mental processes are an endless flow of mystery.
It's what makes us all unique.
Quote: Definitely Tarby @ 8th June 2016, 12:23 AM BSTI have to admit I never bought the book but I wanted to give you the title of it. Maybe just buying it and leaving at your friends house will be a good start.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blessed-Are-Addicts-Spiritual-Alcoholism/dp/0394584015
Ta for that . . . though he is an atheist and flat refuses to even pick up anything tainted with religion. But is salt of the earth with a good heart like the people you mention.
Quote: sootyj @ 8th June 2016, 12:59 AM BSTBut it's a complex world some people have such a revulsion at eating.
Been there too after stress trigger and for almost 3 years couldn't even look at images of food on TV, walked round supermarket with eyes to the floor and scarf round my face to mask the smell of it and basically lived on ice cream and protein shakes.
We somehow manage to come through these things though, if we're lucky. 
Genuine tablets for "curing" OCD - the mind boggles. 
Can anyone download to a 3d printer? 
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 8th June 2016, 11:56 AM BSTGenuine tablets for "curing" OCD - the mind boggles.
They're not very tidy are they. I mean you can only see the inscription on one of them.
Quote: Chappers @ 8th June 2016, 11:17 PM BSTThey're not very tidy are they. I mean you can only see the inscription on one of them.
>_< That was the point of posting the photo.........on the OCD thread - funny ha ha? No? Too deep for you?
I've already downloaded and tidied up in Photoshop. 
Why isn't this thread longer?
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 8th June 2016, 11:56 AM BSTGenuine tablets for "curing" OCD - the mind boggles.
That's Fluxotine isn't it? An SSRI antidepressant.
Quote: sootyj @ 7th June 2016, 8:45 PM BSTIn the Asperger's community there's been a joke for years that they're not "neurodiverse" it's the rest of the world that's "neurotypical." And I think someone who had no idiosyncrasies would be utterly crazy, probably.
In some ways, this modern fascination with neurological conditions is a good thing. In other means, it would be a sad world if we slapped a self-created diagnosis on all our wonderful eccentricities that make us who we are. There's nothing wrong with liking having clean hands or your ornaments facing the right way.
Absolutely, as an Aspie myself I don't tend to appreciate the term 'suffering' from Asperger Syndrome. Most of the time it's pretty OK, as long as I recognise the trigger points.