House of Health

In response to:Eczema - Instigator The Itch

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:24:21 +0200

Try the traditional methods of the Berbers of Morocco, poulticing with Rhassoul clay, and the well tried and tested methods of the French naturopaths, edible French clay (if you are not already on other medicines). Both can be purchased from Natural Spa Supplies Ltd. These clays have a strong negative charge and draw out the toxins through the skin (or digestive tract). They pick up pesticides, hebicides and heavy metal excesses and as they are a sun-dried crystal impart some sort of healing energy from the sun - probably quite helpful seems we’ve had such a rainy summer. The clay seems to work also as an anti-microbial, killing bacteria and viruses and has some sort of analgesic effect. This will help reduce the scratching and secondary skin damage. It is easy to do your own treatments at home.

In response to:Pregnancy - What You Should Cover Up While Pregnant

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:43:47 +0200

Why thank you for your warmly welcomed comment and thank you for being my friend
Have a nice day
Kacy

In response to:Pregnancy - What You Should Cover Up While Pregnant

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:20:09 +0200

Quite informative stuff.
Thanks.

In response to:Body Odour Smells - False Identity Of Deodorant

Tue, 23 May 2006 10:05:19 +0200

Thanks for those great tips I cant wait to try them out,
Have a nice day
Kacy

In response to:Body Odour Smells - False Identity Of Deodorant

Tue, 23 May 2006 10:04:03 +0200

Thanks for those great tips I can wait to try them out,
Have a nice day
Kacy

In response to:Body Odour Smells - False Identity Of Deodorant

Tue, 23 May 2006 00:48:39 +0200

Fresh lime is a good deoderiser. Just add few drops in a mug full of water and wash the areas where it is smelly. You can add a few drops of vinegar in the water you bathe.
Dettol is another important deodoriser a few drops will keep all bad body smells away. But be careful, just a few drop only. Otherwise you will smell dettol.

In response to:OCD Over Compulsive Disorder - Behind Closed Doors

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:42:19 +0100

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In response to:OCD Over Compulsive Disorder - Behind Closed Doors

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:33:20 +0100

Hi Dexy so glad to hear your wash days are now a thing of the past. I would like to say thank you for your comments on my blog. It is sad to say that the only way this illness can be understood by others is for them to suffer from it. A person on the outside looking in will struggle to see things our way no matter how hard they try.

You are so right with what you say on how distressing and time consuming this disorder can be. Do you know how I know you are right, because only a person like yourself who has suffered will ever have an understanding of Why we do what we do.

In your case Dexy it is Why you did what you did.
Have a nice day
Kacy

In response to:OCD Over Compulsive Disorder - Behind Closed Doors

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:54:10 +0100

i've had Ocd with handwashing years ago. i used to wash my hands between 30 and 60 times aday until the skin was so dry it cracked and used to bleed.

i am a very clean person, but i no longer suffer with this. people dont realise how driven it can be, how time consuming and distressing it can be.

its great to see an article on it in blogland. i'm all for educating people and getting explanations out there

cheers
dexy

In response to:Over Compulsive Disorder - OCD I Cry Alone

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 10:24:31 +0100

Good Morning to you Janne, your comments are warmly welcomed and how right you are about the weight issue. That is another matter that I may look into at a later date to write an article on. Thank you for your comments.
Have a nice day
Kacy

In response to:Over Compulsive Disorder - OCD I Cry Alone

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:15:04 +0100

hey, hopefully the stats for america won't become the stats of europe, but right now we're getting there with the overweight issue, in america 1 out of 3 is overweight. so sweet those americans

In response to:Is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder A Hand Me Down

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:18:43 +0100

I most certainly will find the time to check out Paul McKenna it sounds very interesting. Who Knows what an OCD sufferer can learn from this. Thanking you for this information
Kacy

In response to:Is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder A Hand Me Down

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:09:42 +0100

Hi and thanks for your interest also in my OCD article, it is sad when then this condition escalates out of control where a sufferer like your friend and family suffer. With being and OCD sufferer I can relate to many comments that I recieve. I agree with what you say as in i.e more like 98% have a touch of OCD, unfortunately for your friend and myself I would say we fall within the 2%. If we had more caring and understanding people like yourself, then maybe just maybe we could work at putting ourselves in the 98%.
Thank you for taking time out to comment
Have a nice day
Kacy

In response to:Is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder A Hand Me Down

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:07:37 +0100

If you get the chance to see it SKY TV run a series with Paul McKenna who is an NLP Master Practioner, and he dealt with OCD, Tourettes, ADHD and other 'disorders'. Using a variety of control methods like 'Anchors', and 'Collapsed Anchors' he had amazing effect on the individuals. This is NOT stage hypnotism, but a method of controlling the brain and personal states. I work in a prison and am trying it out on prisoners who's compulsive behaviour can bee stealing, drugs or violence. So far we have seen some amazing results and one of our 'students' is now mentoring others which helps to break down US and THEM barriers.

Hope this helps....

In response to:Is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder A Hand Me Down

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:57:04 +0100

Hi there and thank you for your interest in my message, it is good news to see that your friend has been able to recognize his own behaviour and make changes. I can relate to it effecting his home and work, of which thankfully you state is in the past. I have suffered from OCD since I can remember, so the next step for me is to learn Neuro Linguistic Programming, who knows this may just well be the answer to my putting what effects my home and work in the past also.
Thank you
Have a nice day
Kacy

In response to:Is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder A Hand Me Down

Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:55:31 +0100

2% have ocd's? i would say more like 98% of us.

2% maybe having extreme ocd's.

minor signs of ocd are in most peoples everyday life.
i wash my hands a lot more than an average person but does that make me an ocd sufferer or am i just cleaner than the average person. i think the latter.

a friend of mine has bad ocd's that are so bad he has got rid of his double bed with his wife and bought 2 single beds cos he cant handle skin contact. says he does not feel clean. showers too many times every day.

worrying but it is getting worse.

hope he sorts it out for himm and his familys sake.

In response to:Is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder A Hand Me Down

Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:50:05 +0100

I work with an OCD but since we have been learning Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) he has changed a lot. Even he has noticed the difference in his own behaviour, which has in the past effected both his home and work.

In response to:Over Compulsive Disorder - Murder In Mind

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:31:13 +0100

You're welcome. If you really want to come through you will. Take tiny steps at first. It took a long time to build this pattern, it won't take as long to be free but you need to be kind to yourself, and that means a tiny step at your pace - you set it but do it, on your terms.
I know something of where you are coming from but you know where you want to be and where you've come from - that makes you stronger and wiser. If you want to keep in touch, that's fine.

Take care and rest now.

Kim

In response to:Over Compulsive Disorder - Murder In Mind

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:20:34 +0100

Thank you for those kind words I feel have learned more about this disorder just with your welcoming comments and information you have supplied. I wish it was as easy to to stop what I do, but I feel more contented with a mop and bucket close at hand. Thankfully something tells me you understand where I am coming from. I thank you once again for the valuble lesson learned. Should I ever sumbit articles at a later date, please feel free to correct me at any time.

You have a nice day
Kacy

In response to:Over Compulsive Disorder - Murder In Mind

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:22:21 +0100

Hello Kacy

Your apologies aren't really needed to that extent - when I expressed my concern "over your misinformation of this disorder" I didn't mean your own misinformation but the misinformation you seemed to have obtained.

OCD is a phrase that has two meanings. Many psychologists and some psychotherapists divide everybody into "Personality Types". By this they refer to a very obvious trait that is evident in all of us, along with many traits call it a dominant trait, if you will. There is nothing pathological in this - it was just a way contrived to classify the ruling characteristic of groups of people.

I would be classified as 'Unemotional and Analytical' which might be seen by some as 'cold and indifferent'. It's true that I am 'detatched' compared to the norm but, as that is only part of my personailty - and very useful in my work, it is of no consequence. My partner would be classed as 'Obsessive Compulsive Type' in as much as she insists on keeping to schedules and routines to avoid anxiety. (Thus we could say she was Obsessive, compulsive and prone to anxiety but used evasion techniques) Just as easily I could say I am analytical in order to keep myself detached from being too quickly involved emotionally. At these levels we are types of personality but it has not come to disrupt or damage our everyday lives. My partner does not insist everyone is punctual and I don't stop other people from being emotional.

OCD becomes a disorder when it spirals out of control and 'dominates a whole life'. When one is illogically afraid of meeting life without performing a ritual - anything from not stepping on cracks on the way to work or a friends (and if you do having to start again) to keeping lists (and if you forget them or write them out in the wrong order or miss something out having to start again) to washing a certain way. Its rather like 'sympathetic magic' and resembles superstition. However just as superstition serves a purpose so OCD rituals serve a purpose - usually the purpose is to feel safe or better or protected. Without being unkind or flippant one might argue that all religions are types of OCD but are tolerated because they have been accepted and integrated into society. But why do people become religious? Out of a desire to be good, to ensure they go to heaven, and many more reasons.

Think of OCD as a personality trait that, for some reason, has become too dominant inasmuch as it prevents you living your life as YOU wish to live it (and as you once lived it for it isn't something you are born with)
It is horrible, it is infuriating but it is not a brain disease, it is not insane. It is a behavioural problem that has consciously or consciously developed due to a fear or an incident or a memory. Once the rituals helped overcome this - but now it is like an addiction, a habit. But what can be learned can be unlearned.

It might require meds to calm you, or anyone with a disorder, down enough to focus on where the behaviour came from and how you responded to it - or what is the feeling (what do you think or fear will happen) if you stop the rituals.

I am not trying to replace your psychologist or suggest a treatment plan but I would like to give anyone battling against this some hope. OCD can be managed. You can live a normal life. In fact OCD might be seen as a way you did once manage to be 'normal' and cope but which took on too great a significance. You can beat it and you need not relapse and - even if you do the period without your obsessions will have taught you that you can survive in other ways.

Good Luck with your own battle and with your treatment.
OCD is more widely understood now and few people who know that you are trying to escape from it will feel anything but proud of you.

Again Good Luck

K

(Please excuse typos - there are always some!)

In response to:Over Compulsive Disorder - Murder In Mind

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:14:38 +0100

Hi there and thank you for showing interest in my article. If I have misled you then please accept my apologies.

I have not wrote this content as in to give advise it is a way of putting my own feelings down on paper of my experiences as an OCD sufferer for the past forty years. The rarity comment was directed towards the OCD in general not intended to the hand washing ritual. The voices I speak of is something that I felt was a strong part of my illness. I am sorry for mistaking this for another sympton not once has my psycoloigist ever pointed this out to me. I will be happy to rectify any more errors that you may see in this article as I do not want to upset anyone. I hope you can understand that this is how I see OCD from the eyes of Kacy Carr
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to write this comment so that others will realise that I am sorry for any misunderstanding. Do you think I should remove the article any advice greatly welcomed.
Thank you
Kacy

In response to:Over Compulsive Disorder - Murder In Mind

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:51:00 +0100

I must add that I am concerned over your misinformation of this disorder and your errors about its being a recurring condition. This does not tally with the know facts and is irrelevant for those who have it as a Personality Type. Hanwashing of the type you mention is rare. 'Voices in the head' are NOT a symptom of OCD at all. Obsessive or repeitive thought patterns might be suggstive of many different conditions. It is not something you can easily generalise about.

In response to:Over Compulsive Disorder - Murder In Mind

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:44:32 +0100

An interesting post though in my experience it is not a disease of the brain but a behavioural/psychological disorder and is defined as such by the American Institute of Psychiatrists and The British Institue of Psychiatrists and is best managed through either cognitive or depth psycholgy. Some drugs are routinely used as they are supposed to repress some parts of the brain which come into play through unnatural stimulation - often through psychological trauma. The drugs that are used are generally the SRI anti-depressants, use of which is still very untrustworthy. (In fact a problem with all drug therapy is that we all act in very individual ways to chemical interferences with the mechanisms that are know about - and far less is known about the brain than is known.

Properly speaking a 'disease of the brain is caused by a physical or physiological injury or trauma to the substance of the brain itself. Mental illness is a disorder of thinking and behaviour. I have known many OCD patients who have benefited mostly from some sort of psycholical help or through one of the therapie. It can be managed with drugs but the side effects are often undesirable. The drugs used to treat OCD are, in fact, anti-depressants so it might be argued that they were only useful in depresed cases with secondary symptoms of OCD. That was how they came to be developed as a routine prescription for OCD.

OCD stands for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, as a behavioural type is common but largely benign if friends and emploers can allow for it. The types of symptoms you describe is pathological and often the underlying cause has to be treated - often guilt, fear, or repressed trauma.